NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC
                                
                  Productivity Program Meeting
                                
        C. Lanier Benkard and Iain Cockburn, Organizers 
                                
                         March 16, 2001
                                
                         NBER's Offices
                   2nd Floor Conference Room
                   1050 Massachusetts Avenue
                    Cambridge, Massachusetts
                                
                      PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

THURSDAY, MARCH 15:

          6:00 PM   Group Dinner
          Royal Sonesta Hotel
          5 Cambridge Parkway
          Cambridge, MA            

FRIDAY, MARCH 16:

8:15 AM   Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

8:30 AM   Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

8:30 AM   Continental Breakfast

9:15 AM   SANGIN PARK, State University of New York-Stony Brook
          Innovation-Adjusted Price Indexes for Pharmaceuticals 

10:00 AM  Break     
                              
10:15 AM  LAURA BLOW and IAN CRAWFORD, IFS
          Valuing a New Good

11:00 AM  Break

11:15 AM  ARIEL PAKES, Harvard University and NBER
          Notes on Hedonics Price Indices with An Application to PC's

12:00 N   Lunch     
                      
1:15 PM   IGAL HENDEL, University of Wisconsin and NBER
          AVIV NEVO, UC, Berkeley and NBER
          Sales and Consumer Inventory                                                                        
                                                       Over, please!   

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2:00 PM   Break

2:15 PM   KEVIN STIROH, Federal Reserve Bank, New York
          Information Technology and the U.S. Productivity Revival:
          What Do the Industry Data Say?

3:00 PM   Break

3:15 PM   Roundtable: Business Methods Patents
          IAIN COCKBURN, Boston University and NBER
          ADAM JAFFE, Brandeis University and NBER
          JOSH LERNER, Harvard University and NBER
          

4:00 PM   Adjourn
          
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