NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2001
Productivity Potpourri Workshop
Ernst R. Berndt, Organizer
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 27, 2001
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
FRIDAY, JULY 27:
8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
9:00 AM W. ERWIN DIEWERT, University of British Columbia and NBER
Measuring the Price and Quantity of Capital Services under Alternative Assumptions
Discussant: ERNST BERNDT, MIT and NBER
10:00 AM WILLIAM NORDHAUS, Yale University and NBER
Discussant: TIMOTHY BRESNAHAN, Stanford University and NBER
11:00 AM Break
11:15 AM SUSANTO BASU, University of Michigan and NBER
JOHN FERNALD, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
MATTHEW SHAPIRO, University of Michigan and NBER
Productivity Growth in the 1990s: Technology, Utilization, or Adjustment?
Discussant: MARTIN BAILY, Institute of International Economics
12:15 PM Lunch
1:30 PM ROBERT GORDON, Northwestern University and NBER
Did the Productivity Revival Spill Over from Manufacturing to Services? Conflicting Evidence from Three Data Sources
Discussant: BARBARA FRAUMENI, Bureau of Economic Analysis
2:30 PM KEVIN STIROH, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Are ICT Spillovers Driving the New Economy?
Discussant: To Be Announced
3:30 PM Break
SI01 PRB Program
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FRIDAY, JULY 27:
3:45 PM JACQUES MAIRESSE, CREST and NBER
PIERRE MOHNEN, University of Quebec at Montreal
Accounting for Innovation and Productivity: A Comparison Across Four European Countries
Discussant: JACK TRIPLETT, Brookings Institution
4:45 PM Adjourn
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