NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

CRIW Pre-Conference on International Service Flows

 

Marshall Reinsdorf and Matthew Slaughter, Organizers

 

November 14, 2005

 

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13:

 

 

 7:00 pm

Dinner

 

Davio’s at the Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

 

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14:

 

 

 8:15 am       

Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER

 

 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

 9:00 am

MARIA BORGA, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

Addressing Selected Issues in U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis Estimates of U.S. International Services: Improved Measures of Insurance, Wholesale and Retail Trade, and Financial Services

 

 

 9:30 am

BARBARA FRAUMENI, University of Southern Maine and NBER

 

LAWRENCE MCNEIL, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

Technology and Economic Growth:

 

A Methodology for Estimating Cross-Border R&D Spillovers

 

 

10:00 am

KELLEY KHATCHADOURIAN and

 

ALICE WIESNER, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

International Price Program’s (IPP’s) Services Price Indexes

 

 

10:30 am

Coffee Break

 

 

11:00 am

ROBERT LIPSEY, Queens College and NBER

 

Measuring International Trade in Services

 

 

11:30 am

HARRY GRUBERT, U.S. Treasury Department

 

JACK MUTTI, Grinnell College

 

New Developments in the Effect of Taxes on Royalties and the Migration of Intangible Assets Abroad

 

 

12:00 pm

CAROL ROBBINS, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

Measuring Payments for the Use of Intellectual Property in an Input-Output Framework

 

 

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:30 pm

PIERRE SICSIC, Bank of France

 

Are We Missing Some Imports of Services in the French Balance of Payments?

 

 

 2:00 pm

XAVIER REIF and DESIREE VAN WELSUM, OECD

 

We Can Work It Out: The Globalization of ICT-Enabled Services

 

 

 2:30 pm

GABRIEL MEDEIROS, ERICH STRASSNER, and

 

ROBERT YUSKAVAGE, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

Outsourcing and Imported Services in BEA’s Industry Accounts

 

 

 3:00 pm

Coffee Break

 

 

 3:30 pm

CATHERINE MANN, Institute for International Economics

 

U.S. Private Services: Changing the Picture of U.S. Global Engagement

 

 

 4:00 pm

GORDON HANSON, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

CHONG XIANG, Purdue University

 

The Home Market Effect and Trade in Information Services

 

 

 4:30 pm

FRANCISCO MORIS, National Science Foundation

 

U.S. International Trade in R&D-Related Services and a Transactions-Based Profile of Business R&D

 

 

 5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

10/31/05