National Bureau of Economic Research
NBER: NBER Summer Institute 2005, Productivity, Macroeconomics, and Trade Workshop, Call for Papers

Subject: NBER Summer Institute 2005, Productivity, Macroeconomics, and Trade Workshop, Call for Papers
From: Rob Shannon (rshannon@nber.org)
Date: Wed Jan 12 2005 - 12:22:55 EST


To: ME, ITI, and EFG mailing lists
From: Susanto Basu and Ernst R. Berndt
Date: January 12, 2005
Re: CALL FOR PAPERS—Productivity, Macroeconomics, and Trade

We are organizing our usual one-day workshop on applied productivity
analysis during the NBER Summer Institute. The workshop will be held at
the Royal Sonesta Hotel on Wednesday, July 20 (the week of the EFG
small-group meetings). The scope of the meeting is intentionally broad—we
are looking particularly for papers that have a productivity component but
focus on research questions in other fields.

Papers that are especially suitable for this workshop typically have some
empirical application, although the paper may be a contribution to the pure
theory of measurement.

If you have a paper that you believe would be appropriate for this
workshop, please send copies to both Basu and Berndt to arrive no later
than March 31, at the addresses below. If the paper is incomplete you may
send an abstract or rough draft now, with the finished paper due by June 24.

Susanto Basu
Department of Economics
University of Michigan
611 Tappan Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220

Ernst R. Berndt
MIT Sloan School of Management
50 Memorial Drive, E52-452
Cambridge, MA 02142

You may also send papers by electronic mail (in PDF format only, please) to
sbasu@umich.edu and eberndt@mit.edu.

Since this mailing goes to a large group, we cannot invite everyone on the
mailing list to the workshop. For NBER members, travel reimbursement is
according to standard Summer Institute rules. We regret that we cannot
reimburse travel or lodging expenses for non-NBER presenters. However, the
NBER Conference Department will assist in making hotel reservations and
other logistical arrangements.