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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2013 Economic Growth

Chad Jones and Pete Klenow, Organizers

July 12, 2013

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Skyline Room
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

 

Friday, July 12:

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

9:00 am

Ufuk Akcigit, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Murat Alp Celik, University of Pennsylvania
Jeremy Greenwood, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Buy, Keep or Sell: Theory and Evidence from Patent Resales

Discussant: Samuel Kortum, Yale University and NBER

10:00 am

Break

10:15 am

Robert Feenstra, University of California at Davis and NBER
Robert Inklaar, University of Groningen
Marcel Timmer, University of Groningen
The Next Generation of the Penn World Table

Discussant: Alwyn Young, London School of Economics

11:15 am

Melissa Dell, Harvard University and NBER
Path Dependence in Development: Evidence from the Mexican Revolution

Discussant: Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University and NBER

12:15 pm

Lunch

1:15 pm

Klaus Desmet, Universidad Carlos III
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University and NBER
On The Spatial Economic Impact of Global Warming

Discussant: Anthony Smith, Yale University and NBER

2:15 pm

Break

2:30 pm

Xi Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Xuewen Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Yong Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
A Model of China's State Capitalism

Discussant: Zheng Michael Song, University of Chicago

3:30 pm

Jie Bai, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Seema Jayachandran, Northwestern University and NBER
Edmund Malesky, Duke University
Benjamin Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Does Economic Growth Reduce Corruption? Theory and Evidence from Vietnam


Discussant: Raymond Fisman, Columbia University and NBER

4:30 pm

Adjourn

6:30 pm

Reception and Dinner at the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting