Subject: NBER Productivity Program Meeting, March 12, 2004
From: Lita Kimble (lkimble@nber.org)
Date: Thu Jan 08 2004 - 11:34:01 EST
M E M O R A N D U M
TO: NBER Program on Technological
Progress and Productivity Measurement
FROM: Ernst Berndt and Chad Syverson
DATE: January 8, 2004
RE:
Call for Papers
The Spring meeting of the NBER Program on Technological Progress and
Productivity Measurement will be held on Friday, March 12, 2004 at the
Cambridge office of the NBER. The director of the program, Ernst Berndt
and Chad Syverson will coorganize 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 area
of information technology economics, broadly construed. Such topics might
include the determinants of user investment in Internet software,
integrated circuits, computing, and communications equipment, the
productivity consequences of such investment, the organization and
performance of firms in these or related industries, and the measurement of
economic growth as it relates to the sources of technical change in these
and related areas.
Anyone interested in presenting a paper should send an abstract or,
preferably, a draft of the paper to Ernst Berndt and Chad Syverson. Please
send a copy to both of them as soon as possible, but no later than January
31. The program will be finalized by February 6 and a discussant will be
assigned to each paper. Final drafts of the papers are due to the NBER by
February 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 Ernst Berndt or Chad
Syverson at:
Professor Ernst Berndt Chad Syverson
Sloan School of Management Department of Economics
MIT University of
Chicago
50 Memorial Drive 1126 East 59th Street
Cambridge, MA 02142 Chicago, IL 60637
617-253-2665 phone 773-702-7815 phone
617-253-6855 fax 773-702-8490 fax
<mailto:eberndt@mit.edu>eberndt@mit.edu
<mailto:syverson@chicago.edu>syverson@chicago.edu
Note that the 2004 Summer Institute workshops on Productivity start the
week of July 19.
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.
