MEMORANDUM

TO: Potential Authors

FROM: Ernie Berndt and Wolfgang Keller, Organizers

DATE: January 11, 2005

RE: Call for papers, NBER Productivity Meeting, March 4, 2005

Productivity in the Open Economy

This Spring 2005 meeting of the NBER Productivity program will be held at
Cambridge, MA on March 4, 2005. We are particularly interested in papers
that examine productivity issues in an international context. This
includes, but is not limited to issues as

_ Fundamental sources of international productivity differences

_ What is behind the evolution of cross-country productivity gaps in the
long-run

_ Measurement and estimation of international productivity differences

_ How productivity differences affect trade, foreign direct investment,
and other cross-border activity

_ The influence of cross-border economic activity on technology diffusion
and productivity growth

_ Domestic technical change versus technology adoption from abroad

If you have a paper (or draft) that you would like to present, please send
a copy of it by email to both Erinie Berndt (eberndt@mit.edu) and Wolfgang
Keller (keller@eco.utexas.edu).

We look forward to hearing from you!

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