NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC
Productivity Program Meeting
C. Lanier Benkard and Iain Cockburn, Organizers
March 16, 2001
NBER's Offices
2nd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
THURSDAY, MARCH 15:
6:00 PM Group Dinner
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, MA
FRIDAY, MARCH 16:
8:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue
8:30 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:15 AM SANGIN PARK, State University of New York-Stony Brook
Innovation-Adjusted Price Indexes for Pharmaceuticals
Discussant: SCOTT STERN, MIT and NBER
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM LAURA BLOW and IAN CRAWFORD, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Discussant: PETER DAVIS,
11:00 AM Break
11:15 AM ARIEL PAKES, Harvard University and NBER
Notes on Hedonics Price Indices with An Application to PC's
Discussant: To Be Announced
12:00 N Lunch
1:15 PM IGAL HENDAL, University of Wisconsin and NBER
AVIV NEVO, UC, Berkeley and NBER
Sales and Consumer Inventory
Discussant: VICTOR AGUIRREGEBURIA,
Over, please!
Productivity Program, Page 2:
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM KEVIN STIROH, Federal Reserve Bank, New York
Information Technology and the U.S. Productivity Revival:
What Do the Industry Data Say?
Discussant: MARTIN BAILEY,
3:00 PM Break
3:15 PM JINYOUNG KIM, State University New York-Buffalo
GERALD MARSCHKE, State University New York-Albany
The Labor Market for Scientists and the Recent Rise in Patenting
Discussant: SAMUEL KORTUM, Boston University and NBER
4:00 PM Adjourn
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