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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
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SI 2012 NBER/CRIW Workshop
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Day 1: New Data
Sources for Tracking Economic Activity
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Carol Corrado, Charles Hulten, and James Poterba,
Organizers
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Day 2:
Regular CRIW Program
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Susanto Basu, Carol Corrado, Nicholas
Bloom, and Charles Hulten, Organizers
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July 16-17, 2012
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Royal Sonesta Hotel
Parkview Room
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40 Edwin Land Boulevard
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Cambridge, MA
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PROGRAM
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Monday, July 16:
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8:00 am
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Coffee and Pastries
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8:30 am
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James Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and NBER
Remarks
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8:45 am
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Liran Einav, Stanford
University and NBER
Theresa Kuchler, Stanford University
Jonathan Levin, Stanford University and NBER
Neel Sundaresan, eBay Research Labs
Learning from Seller Experiments in Online
Markets
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9:30 am
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Prasanna Tambe, New York
University
Lorin Hitt, University of
Pennsylvania
Erik Brynjolfsson, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and NBER
The
Price and Quantity of IT-Related Intangible Capital
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10:15 am
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Break
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10:45 am
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Dolan Antenucci, University of Michigan
Mike Cafarella, University of Michigan
Margaret Levenstein, University of Michigan
Matthew Shapiro, University of Michigan and NBER
Creating Measures of Labor Market Flows
using Social Media
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11:30 am
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Henry Hyatt, US Census Bureau
Erika McEntarfer, US Census Bureau
Job-to-Job Flows and the Business Cycle
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12:15 pm
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Lunch
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1:15 pm
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Susan Woodward, Sand Hill Econometrics, Inc.
Building
Indexes of Economic Activity with Online Data from Intuit
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2:00 pm
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Panel Discussion: Strategies for
Accessing Proprietary Data
Susan Athey, Harvard University and NBER
Neel Sundaresan, eBay Research Labs
Hal Varian, Google Inc. (slides)
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3:15 pm
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Break
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3:45 pm
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Panel Discussion: Using “Private
Label” Data to Improve Government Statistics
Katharine Abraham, Council of Economic Advisors
Robert Groves, US Census Bureau
Ron Jarmin, US Census Bureau
Steve Landefeld, Bureau of Economic Analysis
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5:00 pm
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Adjourn
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Tuesday, July 17:
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8:00 am
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Coffee and Pastries
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8:30 am
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Lucy Eldridge, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Sabrina Pabilonia, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Jay Stewart, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Measuring
Nonproduction and Supervisory Hours for Productivity Measurement
Discussant: Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER
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9:30 am
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Break
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10:00 am
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Akbar Sadeghi, Bureau of Labor Statistics
James Spletzer, Bureau of Labor Statistics
David Talan, Bureau of Labor Statistics
High Growth Firms
Discussant: John
Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
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11:00 am
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S. Boragan Aruoba,
University of Maryland
Francis Diebold, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Jeremy Nalewaik, Federal Reserve System
Frank Schorfheide, University of Pennsylvania and
NBER
Dongho Song, University of Pennsylvania
Improving
U.S. GDP Measurement: A Forecast Combination Perspective
Discussant: Grahm Elliot, University of California at
San Diego
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12:00 pm
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Lunch
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1:00 pm
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John Fernald, Federal Reserve Bank
of San Francisco
Productivity
and Potential Output before, during, and after the Great Recession
Discussant:
Robert Hall, Stanford University and NBER
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2:00 pm
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Jason DeBacker, US Treasury Department
Bradley Heim, Indiana University
Vasia Panousi, Federal
Reserve Board
Ivan Vidangos, Federal Reserve Board
Estimating
Business Income Risk Using a Panel of US Tax Returns 1987-2006
Discussant: Ron Jarmin, US Census Bureau
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3:00 pm
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Break
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3:30 pm
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Fatih Guvenen, University of
Minnesota and NBER
Serdar Ozkan, Federal
Reserve Board
Jae Song, US Social Security Administration
The
Nature of Countercyclical Income Risk
Discussant: Steven
Davis University of Chicago and NBER
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4:30 pm
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Adjourn
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