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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