MEMORANDUM
TO: NBER Program on Technological Progress and Productivity Measurement
FROM: Ernst Berndt and Christopher Knittel
DATE: January 12, 2009
RE: Call for Papers
The Spring 2009 meeting of the NBER Program on Technological Progress
and Productivity Measurement will be held on Friday, March 20, 2009
at the Cambridge offices of the NBER. Christopher Knittel of
University of California, Davis and I will co-organize the
program. This program meeting is a potpourri program, and we have no
single theme in mind. We invite you to submit proposed papers
addressing the various issues our productivity program has considered
over the years - and of course we are open to new ideas!
Anyone interested in presenting a paper should send an abstract or,
preferably, a draft of the paper to Christopher Knittel and me
(contact information is below) by Monday, January 26,
2009. Electronic submissions in Word or PDF formats are
encouraged. The program will be finalized and the invitations will
be distributed by Monday, February 9, 2009. Final drafts of the
papers are due to the NBER and discussants by Thursday, March 5,
2009. Also, if you are particularly interested in serving as a
discussant of a paper at these meetings, let us know.
Although submissions from the NBER Productivity Program family
receive priority, if any of your colleagues have research that you
believe is particularly appropriate for these meetings, please pass
this announcement on to them. Should you have any questions about
the program for this meeting, please contact us at:
Ernst
Berndt Christopher Knittel
eberndt_at_mit.edu
crknittel_at_ucdavis.edu
MIT Sloan School of Management Department of Economics
50 Memorial Drive, E52-452 University of
California, Davis
Cambridge, MA 02142 One Shields Avenue
Tel: (617) 253-2665 Davis, CA 95616
Tel: (530) 302-1032
Questions can also be directed to the NBER's Conference Department to
617/868-3900 or confer_at_nber.org.
PUT ON YOUR CALENDAR! The Fall 2009 Productivity Program meeting is
scheduled for Friday, December 4, 2009.
CONGRATULATIONS!! To W. Erwin Diewert, who was honored with the
American Economic Association's Distinguished Fellow award last
Sunday at the San Francisco meetings. Please let Ernie Berndt know
if there are other awards and accomplishments among productivity
program members that should be announced.
Received on Mon Jan 12 2009 - 10:56:13 EST
