NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC

 

Summer Institute 2006

 

Macroeconomics and Productivity Workshop

 

Susanto Basu and Ernst Berndt, Organizers

 

July 20, 2006

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 19:

 

 6:00 pm          Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

THURSDAY, JULY 20:

 

 8:30 am          Coffee and Pastries

 

 9:00 am          IAN DEW-BECKER, Northwestern University

ROBERT J. GORDON, Northwestern University and NBER

                        Why Did the Catch-Up in Europe’s Productivity Level Sputter Out? 

A Tale of Tigers and Tortoises

 

Discussant:  WILLIAM NORDHAUS, Yale University and NBER

 

10:00 am         Break

 

10:15 am         RAM ACHARYA, Industry Canada

WOLFGANG KELLER, University of Colorado at Boulder and NBER

                        The Evolution of the World’s Technology Frontier, 1973-2002

 

                        Discussant:  BART HOBIJN, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

11:15 am         MICHELLE ALEXOPOULOS, University of Toronto

Read All About It!!  What Happens Following a Technology Shock?

 

                        Discussant:  IAIN COCKBURN, Boston University and NBER

 

12:15 pm         Lunch

 

 1:30 pm          ZHENG LIU, Emory University

LOUIS PHANEUF, University of Quebec at Montreal

                        Technology Shocks and Labor Market Dynamics:

Some Evidence and Theory

 

                        Discussant:  MICHELLE ALEXOPOULOS, University of Toronto

 

 

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 2:30 pm          Break

 

 2:45 pm          ROBERT CHIRINKO and DEBDULAK MALLICK, Emory University

A Low-Pass Filtered Panel Model for Estimating Production Function Parameters: The Substitution Elasticity and Growth Theory

 

Discussant:  ERNST BERNDT, MIT and NBER

 

 

 

5/22/06