NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC

Summer Institute 2006

Macroeconomics and Productivity Workshop

Susanto Basu and Ernst Berndt, Organizers

July 20, 2006

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Room: University BC

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY, JULY 19:
6:00 pm	Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
THURSDAY, JULY 20:
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	IAN DEW-BECKER, Northwestern University
	ROBERT J. GORDON, Northwestern University and NBER
	The Slowdown in European Productivity Growth: A Tale of Tigers, Tortoises, and Textbook Labor Economics
	Discussant: WILLIAM NORDHAUS, Yale University and NBER
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	RAM ACHARYA, Industry Canada
	WOLFGANG KELLER, University of Colorado at Boulder and NBER
	The Evolution of the World’s Technology Frontier, 1973-2002
	Discussant: BART HOBIJN, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
11:15 am	MICHELLE ALEXOPOULOS, University of Toronto
	Read All About It!! What Happens Following a Technology Shock?
	Discussant: IAIN COCKBURN, Boston University and NBER
12:15 pm	Lunch- Room- University A
1:30 pm	ZHENG LIU, Emory University
	LOUIS PHANEUF, University of Quebec at Montreal
	Technology Shocks and Labor Market Dynamics: Some Evidence and Theory
	Discussant: MICHELLE ALEXOPOULOS, University of Toronto
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	ROBERT CHIRINKO and DEBDULAK MALLICK, Emory University
	A Low-Pass Filtered Panel Model for Estimating Production Function Parameters: The Substitution Elasticity and Growth Theory
	Discussant: ERNST BERNDT, MIT and NBER
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