NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC

 

Summer Institute 2008

 

Productivity Potpourri Workshop

 

Ernst Berndt, Organizer

 

July 17, 2008

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Charles B

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 16:

 

 

 6:00 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

THURSDAY, JULY 17:

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 8:45 am

JAY BHATTACHARYA, Stanford University and NBER

 

MIKKO PACKALEN, University of Waterloo

 

Is Medicine An Ivory Tower?  Induced Innovation, Technological Opportunity, and For-Profit vs. Non-Profit Innovation

 

 

 

Discussant:  AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT and NBER

 

 

 9:45 am

Break

 

 

10:00 am

ALAN GARBER, Stanford University and NBER

 

JONATHAN SKINNER, Dartmouth University and NBER

 

Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient?

 

 

 

Discussant:  DAVID CUTLER, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

D. J. WU, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

MN DING, Pennsylvania State University

 

LORIN M. HITT, University of Pennsylvania

 

IT Implementation Contract Design:  Analytical and Experimental Investigation of IT Value, Learning and Contract Structure

 

 

 

Discussant:  SHANE GREENSTEIN, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:15 pm

JENNIFER HUNT, McGill University and NBER

 

How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?

 

 

 

Discussant:  AJAY AGRAWAL, University of Toronto and NBER

 

 

 2:15 pm

Break

 

 

 2:30 pm

EMANUELA CARDIA, University of Montreal

 

Household Technology: Was it the Engine of Liberation?

 

 

 

Discussant:  CLAUDIA OLIVETTI, Boston University

 

 

 3:30 pm

Break

 

 

 3:45 pm

RICHARD HORNBECK, MIT

 

MICHAEL GREENSTONE, MIT and NBER

 

ENRICO MORETTI, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers: Evidence from Million Dollar Plants

 

 

 

Discussant:  CHAD SYVERSON, University Chicago and NBER

 

 

 4:45 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

5/14/08