NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2001

Productivity Potpourri Workshop

Ernst R. Berndt, Organizer

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

July 27, 2001

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM



FRIDAY, JULY 27:



8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts



9:00 AM W. ERWIN DIEWERT, University of British Columbia and NBER

Measuring the Price and Quantity of Capital Services under Alternative Assumptions



Discussant: ERNST BERNDT, MIT and NBER



10:00 AM WILLIAM NORDHAUS, Yale University and NBER

The Progress of Computing

Discussant: TIMOTHY BRESNAHAN, Stanford University and NBER

11:00 AM Break



11:15 AM SUSANTO BASU, University of Michigan and NBER

JOHN FERNALD, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

MATTHEW SHAPIRO, University of Michigan and NBER

Productivity Growth in the 1990s: Technology, Utilization, or Adjustment?



Discussant: MARTIN BAILY, Institute of International Economics



12:15 PM Lunch



1:30 PM ROBERT GORDON, Northwestern University and NBER

Did the Productivity Revival Spill Over from Manufacturing to Services? Conflicting Evidence from Three Data Sources



Discussant: BARBARA FRAUMENI, Bureau of Economic Analysis



2:30 PM KEVIN STIROH, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Are ICT Spillovers Driving the New Economy?



Discussant: To Be Announced



3:30 PM Break



SI01 PRB Program

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FRIDAY, JULY 27:



3:45 PM JACQUES MAIRESSE, CREST and NBER

PIERRE MOHNEN, University of Quebec at Montreal

Accounting for Innovation and Productivity: A Comparison Across Four European Countries



Discussant: JACK TRIPLETT, Brookings Institution



4:45 PM Adjourn



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