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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC. 

SI 2014 NBER/CRIW Workshop 

Susanto Basu, Nicholas Bloom, Carol Corrado, and Charles R. Hulten, Organizers 

July 14-15, 2014 

Parkview Room

Royal Sonesta Hotel
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

 

Monday, July 14:

 

8:30 am

Continental breakfast

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

Bryan Hong, University of California at Berkeley
Lorenz Kueng, Northwestern University and NBER
Mu-Jeung Yang, University of Washington
Estimating Management Practice Complementarity between Decentralization and Performance Pay

Discussant:  Rafaella Sadun, Harvard University

 

 

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

 

 

10:15 am

David Byrne, Federal Reserve Board
Stephen D. Oliner, Federal Reserve Board
Daniel E. Sichel, Wellesley College and NBER
How Fast Are Semiconductor Prices Falling?

Discussant: Ken Flamm, University of Texas

 

 

 

 

11:15 am

Break

 

 

 

 

11:30 am

Marshall B. Reinsdorf, International Monetary Fund
Kyle K. Hood, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Carol Corrado, The Conference Board
How do you Complete the Picture of Credit Intermediation?

Discussant: John Fernald, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

 

 

1:30 pm

J. Christina Wang, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Vanishing Procyclicality of Productivity? Industry Evidence

Discussant:  Valerie Ramey, UC San Diego and NBER

 

 

 

 

2:30 pm

Break

 

 

 

 

2:45 pm

Benjamin R. Bridgman, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Is Labor's Loss Capital's Gain? Gross versus Net Labor Shares

Maya Eden, The World Bank
Paul Gaggl, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
The Substitution of ICT Capital for Routine Labor: Transitional Dynamics and Long-Run Implications

Discussant: Bart Hobijn, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

 

 

 

 

4:00 pm

Adjourn

 


5:15 pm


Reception, Ballroom B, West Tower

 

Tuesday, July 15:

 

 

 

 

8:00 am

Continental breakfast

 

 

 

 

8:45 am

Panel Discussions: New Developments at Agencies

Chair: Michael Horrigan, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Cynthia Zoghi, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Chair: David Johnson, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Wendy Li, Bureau of Economic Analysis (background paper)
Rachel Soloveichik, Bureau of Economic Analysis (background paper)

Background papers:
Adjusting DMSP Industry MFP to Account for Changes in the Composition of Labor ; Organizational Capital, R&D Assets, and Offshore Outsourcing;
Valuing ‘Free’ Entertainment in GDP

 

 

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

 

 

10:15 am

W. Erwin Diewert, University of British Columbia and NBER
Alternative Measures of OECD Output Growth and Inflation

Discussant: Marshall B. Reinsdorf, International Monetary Fund

 

 

 

 

11:15 am

Break

 

 

 

 

11:30 am

Emmanuel Saez, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Gabriel Zucman, Paris School of Economics
Wealth Inequality in the United States since 1913

Discussant: Wojciech Kopczuk, Columbia University

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch followed by joint session with Macro Productivity

 


1:30 pm


Ruediger Bachmann, RWTH Aachen University
Steffen Elstner, IFO Institute
Surprise, Surprise - Measuring Firm-level Investment Innovations

Discussant: Michael F. Bryan, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

 


2:15 pm


Christian Fons-Rosen, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, University of Maryland and NBER
Bent Sorensen, University of Houston
Carolina Villegas-Sanchez, ESADE-Universitat Ramon Llull
Vadym Volosovych, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Foreign Ownership, Selection, Productivity

Discussant: John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER

 


3:00 pm


Break

 


3:15 pm


Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago and NBER
Enrico Moretti, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Growth in Cities and Countries

Discussant: Daniel K. Fetter, Wellesley College and NBER

 


4:00 pm


Adjourn

 


5:15 pm


Reception