THURSDAY, MARCH 3:

6:30 PM Dinner

Davio's Restaurant

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA

FRIDAY, MARCH 4:

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.

8:45 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM ANUSHA CHARI and PAIGE OUIMET, University of Michigan

LINDA TESAR, University of Michigan and NBER

Acquiring Control in Emerging Markets: Evidence from the Stock Market

DISCUSSANT: LEE BRANSTETTER, Columbia University and NBER

10:00 AM Break

10:15 AM MARY HALLWARD-DRIEMEIER and GIUSEPPE IAROSSI , The World Bank

KENNETH SOKOLOFF, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

Exports and Manufacturing Productivity in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis with

Firm-Level Data

DISCUSSANT: ELI BERMAN, UC, San Diego and NBER

11:15 AM Break

11:30 AM BARBARA FRAUMENI and LAWRENCE R. MCNEIL, Bureau of Economic Analysis

International Spillovers and the R&D Satellite Account

DISCUSSANT: ERNST BERNDT, MIT and NBER

12:15 PM Lunch

Over, Please!

Productivity Program Meeting, Page 2:

1:15 PM JOHANNES VAN BIESEBROECK, University of Toronto and NBER

Cross-Country Conversion Factors for Sectoral Productivity Comparisons

DISCUSSANT: ROBERT LIPSEY, Queens College and NBER

2:15 PM Break

2:30 PM DIEGO COMIN, New York University and NBER

BART HOBIJN, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Neoclassical Growth and the Adoption of Technologies

DISCUSSANT: PETER HOWITT, Brown University and NBER

3:30 PM Break

3:45 PM CHIARA CRISCUOLO and JONATHAN HASKEL, University of London

MATTHEW SLAUGHTER, Dartmouth College and NBER

Why are Some Firms More Innovative? Knowledge Inputs, Knowledge

Flows, and the Role of Global Engagement

DISCUSSANT: AMIL PETRIN, University of Chicago and NBER

4:45 PM Adjourn

2/28/05