NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Innovation Policy and the Economy
Adam Jaffe, Joshua Lerner, and Scott Stern, Organizer
April 17, 2001
Willard Inter-Continental Hotel
1401 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM RICHARD SCHMALENSEE, MIT and NBER
Some Economic Aspects of Antitrust Analysis in New-Economy Industries
(Joint with DAVID EVANS, National Economic Research Associates)
9:45 AM SUZANNE SCOTCHMER, UC, Berkeley and NBER
An Efficient Mechanism for Rewarding Innovation?
(Joint with NANCY GALLINI, University of Toronto)
10:25 AM Break
10:40 AM MANUEL TRAJTENBERG, Tel-Aviv University and NBER
Government Support of Commercial R&D:
Lessons from the Israeli Experience
11:20 AM Break
11:30 AM TIMOTHY BRESNAHAN, Stanford University and NBER
Prospects for an IT-Led Productivity Surge
12:10 PM J. BRADFORD DELONG, UC, Berkeley and NBER
Do We Have a "New" Macroeconomy?
1:00 PM Reception and Luncheon
MARTIN N. BAILY, Outgoing Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers
2/15/01