NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2001
Economic Fluctuations and Growth
Growth Meeting
Chad Jones and Peter Klenow, Organizers
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 20, 2001
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
FRIDAY, JULY 20:
8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
9:00 AM SIMEON DJANKOV, The World Bank
RAFAEL LA PORTA, FLORENCIO LOPEZ-DE-SILANES and ANDREI SHLEIFER, Harvard University and NBER
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM SIMON GILCHRIST, Boston Univeristy and NBER
JOHN C. WILLIAMS, Federal Reserve Board
Transition Dynamics in Vintage Capital Models:
Explaining the Postwar Catch-Up of Germany and Japan
11:15 AM CHANG-TAI HSIEH, Princeton University
JONATHAN PARKER, Princeton University and NBER
Taxes and Growth in a Financially Underdeveloped Country:
Explaining the Chilean Investment Boom
12:15 PM Lunch
1:15 PM TOR KLETTE, University of Oslo
SAMUEL KORTUM, Boston University and NBER
Innovating Firms: Evidence and Theory
2:15 PM KARL WHELAN, Federal Reserve Board
A Two-Sector Approach to Modeling U.S. NIPA Data
3:15 PM Break
3:30 PM DAVID WEIL, Brown University and NBER
Accounting for the Effect of Health on Economic Growth
4:30 PM Adjourn
5:30 PM Informal Dinner
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