NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAM MEETING
Bronwyn H. Hall, Organizers
December 6, 2002
NBER Offices,
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5:
6:30 PM Dinner
Davio's Restaurant
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, MA 02142
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6:
7:45 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.
8:00 AM Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM BEE YAN AW-ROBERTS, Pennsylvania State University
MARK J. ROBERTS, Pennsylvania State University and NBER
TOR WINSTON, U.S. Department of Justice
Export Market Participation, Investments in R&D and Worker Training,
and the Evolution of Firm Productivity
Discussant: AMIL PETRIN, University of Chicago and NBER
9:30 AM Break
10:00 AM HAJIME KATAYAMA, Pennsylvania State University
SHIHUA LU, Charles River Associates
JAMES R. TYBOUT, Pennsylvania State University and NBER
Why Plant-Level Productivity Studies Are Often Misleading, and an Alternative Approach to Inference
Discussant: MARC MELITZ, Harvard University
11:00 AM BARBARA M. FRAUMENI and SUMIYE OKUBO,
Bureau of Economic Analysis
R&D in the National Income and Product Accounts: A First Look at Its Effects on GDP
Discussant: CHARLES HULTEN, University of Maryland and NBER
12:00 N Lunch
Over, Please!
Productivity Program, Page 2:
1:00 PM LAURE TURNER, Université Paris 1
JACQUES MAIRESSE, INSEE-CREST and NBER
BRONWYN HALL, UC, Berkeley and NBER
Progress Report: Looking at Individual Differences in Scientific Research Productivity: An Econometric Analysis of the Publications of the French CNRS Physicists in Condensed Matters (1980-1997)
Discussant: To Be Announced
2:00 PM SAUL LACH, Hebrew University, Jerusalem and NBER
MARK SCHANKERMAN, London School of Economics
Incentives, Academic Research and Licensing
Discussant: ARVIDS ZIEDONIS, University of Michigan
3:00 PM Break
3:30 PM JAMES D. ADAMS, University of Florida and NBER
GRANT C. BLACK and PAULA E. STEPHAN, Georgia State University
ROGER CLEMMONS, University of Florida
Patterns of Research Collaboration in U.S. Universities, 1981-1999
Discussant: MANUEL TRAJTENBERG, Tel Aviv University and NBER
4:30 PM Adjourn
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