NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2000
Productivity Potpourri
Ernst Berndt, Organizer
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 28, 2000
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
FRIDAY, JULY 28:
8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
9:00 AM OTTO TOIVANEN, University of Helsinki
Technological Diffusion Under Uncertainty: A Real Options Model
Applied to the Comparative International Diffusion of Robot Technology
(Joint with PAUL STONEMAN, University of Warwick)
Discussant: ROBERT PINDYCK, MIT and NBER
10:00 AM SHANE GREENSTEIN, Northwestern University and NBER
Valuing the Net: What Determines Pricing of Internet Access?
Discussant: IAIN COCKBURN, Boston University and NBER
11:00 AM Break
11:15 AM BRUNO CREPON, INSEE
JACQUES MAIRESSE, INSEE and NBER
ROZENN DESPLATZ, INSEE
Estimating Price-Cost Margins, Scale Economies and Workers'
Bargaining Power at the Firm Level
Discussant: JEFFREY BERNSTEIN, Carleton University and NBER
12:15 PM Lunch
1:15 PM JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland and NBER
JULIA LANE, Urban Institute
JAMES SPLETZER, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Wages, Productivity, and the Dynamic Interaction of Businesses and Workers
Discussant: VICTOR AGUIRREGABIRIA, University of Chicago
2:15 PM CHAD SYVERSON, University of Maryland
Geographic Market Segmentation and Productivity Heterogeneity:
A Concrete Example
Discussant: MARK ROBERTS. Pennsylvania State University and NBER
3:15 PM Break
3:30 PM KEVIN STIROH, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Compositional Dynamics and the Performance of the U.S. Banking Industry
Discussant: M. ISHAQ NADIRI, New York University and NBER
4:30 PM Adjourn
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