NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC

 

Conference on Research on Income and Wealth

 

Ernst R. Berndt, Carol Corrado, and Charles R. Hulten, Co-organizers

 

July 25-26, 2005

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 25:

 

 

  8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

  9:00 am

AMIL PETRIN, University of Chicago and NBER

 

JAMES LEVINSOHN, University of Michigan and NBER

 

Measuring and Mismeasuring Agregate Productivity Growth Using Plant-Level Data

 

 

 

Discussant: JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland and NBER

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

KEVIN STIROH, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

Volatility Accounting: A Production View of Increased Economic Stability

 

 

 

Discussant: SUSANTO BASU, University of Michigan and NBER

 

 

11:15 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

MARK DOMS, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

 

ETHAN LEWIS, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

 

Information Technology Diffusion, Human Capital, and Spillovers: PC Diffusion in the 1990s and Early 2000s

 

 

 

Discussant:  ELLEN DULBERGER, IBM Global Services

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:30 pm

Results from New Datasets (45 minutes each)

 

 

 

DAVID NEUMARK, JUNFU ZHANG, and BRANDON WALL,

 

Public Policy Institute of California

 

Employment Dynamics and Business Relocation: New Evidence from the National Establishment Time Series

 

 

 

MARCELA ESLAVA, University of Maryland

 

JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland and NBER

 

ADRIANA KUGLER, University of Houston

 

MAURICE KUGLER, University of South Hampton

 

Plant Survival, Market Fundamentals and Trade Liberalization

 

 

 3:00 pm

Break

 

 

 3:15 pm

Roundtable: The Upcoming Revision to the UN System of National Accounts

 

CHARLES HULTEN, University of Maryland and NBER

 

BARBARA FRAUMENI, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

TAREK HARCHAOUI, Statistics Canada

 

JACQUES MAIRESSE, INSEE and NBER

 

 

 5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2005

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am  

Updates (20 minutes each)

 

 

 

B.K. ATROSTIC and SANG V. NGUYEN, Bureau of the Census

 

Firm-Level Analysis of Information Network Use and Performance: Preliminary Evidence for the United States and Japan

 

 

 

ANA AIZCORBE, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

Price Deflators for High-Technology Goods and the New Buyer Problem

 

 

 

FRANK WYKOFF, Pomona College

 

Obsolescence vs. Deterioration with Embodied Technological Change

 

 

10:00 am 

Break

 

 

10:15 am

ROBERT FEENSTRA, UC, Davis and NBER

 

MICHAEL HARPER, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

MARSHALL REINSDORF, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

MATTHEW J. SLAUGHTER, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

Terms of Trade Gains and U.S. Productivity Growth

 

 

 

Discussant: ERWIN DIEWERT, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

 

 

 

11:30 am

JUAN CARLOS HALLAK, University of Michigan and NBER

 

PETER SCHOTT, Yale University and NBER

 

Estimating Cross-Country Differences in Product Quality

 

 

 

Discussant:  MARSHALL REINSDORF, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:30 pm

ERWIN DIEWERT, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

DENIS LAWRENCE, Meyrick and Associates

 

Australia's Productivity Growth and the Role of Information and Communications Technology: 1960-2004

 

 

 

Discussant:  DANIEL SICHEL, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

 2:30 pm

Break

 

 

 2:45 pm

MINJAE SONG, Georgia Tech

 

The Quality-Adjusted Price Index and Consumer Heterogeneity

 

 

 

Discussant:  ROBERT McCLELLAND, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

 

 3:45pm

Break

 

 

 4:00 pm

Interim reports (30 minutes each)

 

ALAN WHITE, Analysis Group

 

JAISON ABEL, Analysis Group

 

SCOTT GOLDFARB, Q/P Management Group

 

The Use of Function Points in Developing Price Indexes for Custom Software: an Interim Report

 

 

 

ROBERT SUMMERS, University of Pennsylvania

 

Possible Expansion of the Penn World Table

 

 

 

 

 5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5/27/05