NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 1997

Franco American Seminar

David Cutler and Jacques Mairesse, Organizers

Conference on Research on Income and Wealth:

Medical Care Output and Productivity

Ernst Berndt and David Cutler, Organizers

July 23-25, 1997

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY, JULY 23:

8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts

9:00 AM KAY FORD and DANIEL GINSBURG

Medical Care in the Consumer Price Index

9:30 AM DENNIS FIXLER, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Health Care Output and Prices in the Producer Price Index

(Joint with ROSLYN SWICK, Bureau of Labor Statistics)

10:00 AM KAY FORD on IMS: CPI-IMS Prescription Drug Price Analysis

10:30 AM Break

10:45 AM JACK TRIPLETT, Bureau of Economic Analysis

Body Repair and Auto Repair

11:15 AM PIERRE ANDRE CHIAPPORI and PIERRE YVES GEOFFARD, DELTA

Elasticity of Demand for Medical Care: Lessons from a Natural Experiment

12:00 N Lunch

1:00 PM DAVID MELTZER, University of Chicago and NBER

Accounting for Future Costs in Medical Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

1:30 PM BENOIT DERVAUX and HERVE LELEU, CRESGE

Evaluating the Productive Efficiency of Hospitals

2:15 PM Break

2:30 PM IRVING SHAPIRO, Philips Eye Institute

MATTHEW SHAPIRO, University of Michigan and NBER

DAVID WILCOX, Federal Reserve Board

A Price Index for Cataract Surgery

3:00 PM KATIE LEVIT and ARTHUR SENSENIG, Health Care Financing Administration

The National Health Accounts

3:30 PM Adjourn

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THURSDAY, JULY 24:

8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts

9:00 AM STEPAHNE JACOBZONE, INSEE-CREST

A Hedonic Insight into the Pricing of French Prescription Drugs

9:45 AM DAVID CUTLER, Harvard University and NBER

MARK MCCLELLAN, Stanford University and NBER

JOSEPH NEWHOUSE, Harvard University

DAHLIA REMLER, Tulane University

Pricing Heart Attack Treatments

10:15 AM Break

10:45 AM ERNST BERNDT, MIT and NBER

RICHARD FRANK, Harvard University and NBER

The Price of Depression

11:15 AM IAIN COCKBURN, University of British Columbia and NBER

Price Indices for Arthritis Care

11:45 AM Lunch

1:00 PM J. P. MOATTI, Institut Jean Paul Calmette

The Cost of Treatment

1:45 PM SARA ELLISON, MIT

JUDITH HELLERSTEIN, University of Maryland and NBER

Market Demand and Antibiotic Drugs

2:15 PM SHERRY GLIED, Columbia University and NBER

The Productivity of Public Health Interventions for Children

2:45 PM Adjourn

FRIDAY, JULY 25:

8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts

9:00 AM FRANK LICHTENBERG, Columbia University and NBER

The Allocation of Government Funded Biomedical Research, 1972-1995

9:30 AM ALBERTO HOLLY, University of Lausanne

Health Insurance and Health Care Utilization in Switzerland

10:15 AM Break

10:45 AM TOMAS PHILIPSON, University of Chicago and NBER

Health Care Productivity and R&D: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination

11:15 AM SCOTT STERN, MIT and NBER

MANUEL TRAJTENBERG, Tel-Aviv University and NBER

The Value of New Pharmaceutical Innovations

11:45 AM Lunch and Adjourn 7/7/97