NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2003

 

Innovation Policy and the Economy

 

Adam Jaffe, Joshua Lerner and Scott Stern, Organizers

 

July 21, 2003

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 21:

 

 8:30 AM          Coffee and Pastries

 

 9:00 AM          MARGARET KYLE, Carnegie-Mellon University

                        Pharmaceutical Price Controls and Entry Strategies

 

                        Discussant: SEAN NICHOLSON, University of Pennsylvania and NBER    

10:00 AM         PIERRE AZOULAY, Columbia University

                        Medical Progress and Health Care Financing:

                        Research in Academic Medical Centers Following the 1997 Medicare Cuts

                        (Joint with ABIGAIL TAI, Columbia University)

 

                        Discussant: DAVID CUTLER, Harvard University and NBER

 

11:00 AM         Break

 

11:15 AM         RICHARD NELSON, Columbia University

                        The Market Economy and the Scientific Commons

 

                        Discussant: MARIE THURSBY, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER

 

12:15 PM         Lunch

 

 1:15 PM          LISA COOK, Stanford University

                        Responses in Technical Change to Uncertainty:

                        Evidence from Patenting Activity among African Americans, 1821-1919

 

                        Discussant: PETRA MOSER, MIT

 

 2:15 PM          Break

2:30 PM           MICHAEL WHINSTON, Northwestern University and NBER

                        Antitrust Policy in Innovative Industries

                        (Joint with ILYA SEGAL, Stanford University)

 

                        Discussant: RICHARD SCHMALENSEE, MIT and NBER

 

 3:30 PM          Break

 

 3:45 PM          Panel Discussion:

                        Where is the “New Economy” Today?

                       

                        CHAIR:            ERNST BERNDT, MIT and NBER

                        SPEAKERS:   TIMOTHY BRESNAHAN, Stanford University and NBER

                                                KATHRYN SHAW, Carnegie-Mellon University and NBER

                                                DAVID CUTLER, Harvard University and NBER

 

 4:45 PM          Adjourn                                                                                               

 

 

 

5/28/03