Meeting of the EFJK Growth Group


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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Meeting of the EFJK Growth Group
Organized by Joseph Kaboski and Ananth Seshadri

February 2, 2012

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
101 Market Street
San Francisco, CA

PROGRAM

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

Alexander Monge-Naranjo, Pennsylvania State University
Knowledge Spillovers and the Optimal Taxation of Multinational Firms

Discussant:  Natalia Ramondo, Arizona State University

10:00 am

Break

10:15 am

Jonathan Chiu, Bank of Canada
Cesaire Meh, Bank of Canada
Randall Wright, University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER
Innovation and Growth with Financial, and other, Frictions

Discussant:  Michele Boldrin, Washington University


11:15 am


Jie Cai, University of New South Wales
Nan Li, Ohio State University
Growth Through Inter-Sectoral Knowledge Linkages

Discussant:  Samuel Kortum, University of Chicago and NBER

12:15 pm

Lunch


1:15 pm


Alessandra Fogli, University of Minnesota
Laura Veldkamp, New York University and NBER
Germs, Social Networks and Growth

Discussant:  Pascaline Dupas, Stanford University and NBER

2:15 pm

Break


2:30 pm


Berthold Herrendorf, Arizona State University
Todd Schoellman, Arizona State University
Why is Measured Productivity so Low in Agriculture?

Discussant:  Hanan Jacoby, World Bank


3:30 pm


Harold Cole, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Jeremy Greenwood, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Juan Sanchez, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Why Doesn’t Technology Flow from Rich to Poor Countries?

Discussant:  Benjamin Moll, Princeton University

4:30 pm

Adjourn