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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2016 Economic Growth

Charles Jones and Pete Klenow, Organizers

July 15, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Skyline Rooms
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Friday, July 15
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Gene Grossman, Princeton University and NBER Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University and NBER Ezra Oberfield, Princeton University and NBER Thomas Sampson, London School of Economics Balanced Growth Despite Uzawa (slides) Discussant: Paul Romer, New York University and NBER
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Julieta Caunedo, Cornell University Elisa Keller, Durham University Business School Capital Obsolescence and Agricultural Productivity (slides) Discussant: Ananth Seshadri, University of Wisconsin, Madison (slides)
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	Gregor Schwerhoff, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Martin Stuermer, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Non-Renewable Resources, Extraction Technology and Endogenous Growth (slides) Discussant: David Hemous, University of Zurich (slides)
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER John Grigsby, University of Chicago Tom Nicholas, Harvard University The Birth of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age (slides) Discussant: Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University and NBER (slides)
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Nancy Stokey, University of Chicago and NBER Technology, Skill and the Wage Structure (slides) Discussant: Stephen Redding, Princeton University and NBER (slides)
3:45 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Benjamin Faber, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Cecile Gaubert, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Tourism and Economic Development: Evidence from Mexico's Coastline (slides) Discussant: Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER
5:00 pm	Adjourn
6:30 pm	Group Dinner at the Royal Sonesta Hotel