NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2000

Productivity Potpourri

Ernst Berndt, Organizer

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

July 28, 2000

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

FRIDAY, JULY 28:

8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts

9:00 AM OTTO TOIVANEN, University of Helsinki

Technological Diffusion Under Uncertainty: A Real Options Model

Applied to the Comparative International Diffusion of Robot Technology

(Joint with PAUL STONEMAN, University of Warwick)

Discussant: ROBERT PINDYCK, MIT and NBER

10:00 AM SHANE GREENSTEIN, Northwestern University and NBER

Valuing the Net: What Determines Pricing of Internet Access?

Discussant: IAIN COCKBURN, Boston University and NBER

11:00 AM Break

11:15 AM BRUNO CREPON, INSEE

JACQUES MAIRESSE, INSEE and NBER

ROZENN DESPLATZ, INSEE

Estimating Price-Cost Margins, Scale Economies and Workers'

Bargaining Power at the Firm Level

Discussant: JEFFREY BERNSTEIN, Carleton University and NBER

12:15 PM Lunch

1:15 PM JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland and NBER

JULIA LANE, Urban Institute

JAMES SPLETZER, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Wages, Productivity, and the Dynamic Interaction of Businesses and Workers

Discussant: VICTOR AGUIRREGABIRIA, University of Chicago

2:15 PM CHAD SYVERSON, University of Maryland

Geographic Market Segmentation and Productivity Heterogeneity:

A Concrete Example

Discussant: MARK ROBERTS. Pennsylvania State University and NBER

3:15 PM Break

3:30 PM KEVIN STIROH, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Compositional Dynamics and the Performance of the U.S. Banking Industry

Discussant: M. ISHAQ NADIRI, New York University and NBER

4:30 PM Adjourn

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