Subject: NBER Productivity Program Meeting, December 5, 2003
From: Lita Kimble (lkimble@nber.org)
Date: Tue Sep 30 2003 - 12:23:22 EDT
M E M O R A N D U M
TO: NBER Program on Technological Progress and Productivity Measurement
FROM: Ernst Berndt
DATE: September 29, 2003
RE: Call for Papers
The Fall meeting of the NBER Program on Technological Progress and
Productivity Measurement will be held on December 5, 2003 at the Cambridge
office of the NBER. The director of the program, Ernst Berndt, has asked
Aviv Nevo to organize the meeting agenda. Although we welcome papers on
any topic related to innovation and productivity, for this meeting we are
especially interested in receiving submissions in the overlap of
productivity and industrial organization, broadly construed. Such topics
might include estimation of production functions and productivity, demand
systems and their implications for welfare analysis, hedonic methods,
innovation, strategic investment and dynamics. Anyone interested in
presenting a paper should send an abstract or, preferably, a draft of the
paper to Aviv Nevo (at the MIT address given below) by October
20. Electronic submissions in Word or PDF formats are encouraged. The
program will be finalized by October 31. Final drafts of the papers are due
to the NBER by November 26.
If any of your colleagues have research that is appropriate for these
meetings, please pass this announcement to them. If you have any questions
about the program for this meeting please contact Aviv Nevo at:
<mailto:nevo@econ.berkeley.edu>nevo@econ.berkeley.edu
MIT Sloan School of Management
50 Memorial Drive E52-452
Cambridge, MA 02142
Tel: (617) 253-3218
Note that the Spring 2004 Productivity Program Meeting will be held in
Cambridge on Friday, March 12. The 2004 Summer Institute workshops on
Productivity will be held July 19-23, while joint NBER/CRIW meetings are
July 26/27.
If you have any questions, please contact the NBERs Conference Department
at 617/868-3900, fax 617/864-1825 or email
<mailto:confer@nber.org>confer@nber.org.
