THURSDAY, MARCH 13:

6:30 PM Dinner

Davio's Restaurant

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA

FRIDAY, MARCH 14:

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

9:00 AM BARBARA KATHRYN ATROSTIC and SANG NGUYEN,

Center for Economic Studies

IT and Productivity in IT- Using and IT-Producing Industries:

New Micro Data Evidence

Discussant: CHRISTOPHER FORMAN, Carnegie-Mellon University

10:00 AM Break

10:15 AM JAMES BESSEN, Research on Innovation

Technology Adoption Costs and Productivity Growth: The Transition to

Information Technology

Discussant: SHANE GREENSTEIN, Northwestern University and NBER

11:15 AM Break

11:30 AM DAN ELFENBEIN, Harvard University

JOSH LERNER, Harvard University and NBER

Designing Alliance Contracts: Exclusivity and Contingencies in Internet Portal

Alliances

Discussant: IAIN COCKBURN, Boston University and NBER

12:30 PM Lunch

Over, Please!

Productivity Meeting Program, Page 2:

1:30 PM KENNETH FLAMM, University of Texas-Austin

Moore's Law and the Economics of Semiconductor Price Trends

Discussant: REBECCA HENDERSON, MIT and NBER

Work in Progress (Author Presents for 30 minutes, discussion for 15 minutes)

2:30 PM Break

2:45 PM MINJAE SONG, Harvard University

Measuring Consumer Welfare in the CPU Market

3:30 PM Break

3:45 PM SEAN M. DOUGHERTY and ROBERT H. MCGUCKIN, The Conference Board

Internationalization and the Changing Structure of Business R&D:

Recent Trends and Measurement Implications

(Joint with Robert Inklaar and Bart Van Ark)

4:30 PM Adjourn

2/25/03