NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC
RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2003
Economic Fluctuations and Growth
Growth Meeting
Chad Jones and Pete Klenow,
Organizers
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 18, 2003
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
FRIDAY, JULY 18:
8:30 AM Coffee
and Pastries
9:00 AM RODOLFO E.
MANUELLI, University of Wisconsin and NBER
ANANTH SESHADRI,
University of Wisconsin
Frictionless
Technology Diffusion: The Case of Tractors
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM DIEGO RESTUCCIA, University of Toronto
RICHARD ROGERSON,
Arizona State University and NBER
Policy Distortions and
Aggregate Productivity with Heterogeneous Plants
11:15 AM DIEGO COMIN, New York University
BART HOBIJN, Federal
Reserve Bank of New York
Cross-Country
Technology Adoption: Making the Theories Face the Facts
12:15 AM Lunch
1:15 PM PIERRE-OLIVIER
GOURINCHAS, Princeton University and NBER
OLIVIER JEANNE,
International Monetary Fund
The Elusive Gains
from International Financial Integration
2:15 PM ESTEBAN
ROSSI-HANSBERG and MARK WRIGHT, Stanford University
3:15 PM Break
3:30 PM FRANK R.
LICHTENBERG, Columbia University and NBER
The Impact of New
Drug Launches on Longevity: Evidence from Longditudinal Disease Level Data 4:30 PM Adjourn 6:30 PM Economic
Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting Group Dinner