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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2009

 

Economic Growth Workshop

 

Chad Jones and Pete Klenow, Organizers

 

July 10, 2009

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Rooms University B and C

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, JULY 10:

 

 

 8:15 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 8:45 am

MICHELLE CONNOLLY, Duke University

 

KEI-MU YI, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

 

How Much of South Korea's Growth Miracle can be Explained by Trade Policy?

 

 

 

Discussant: SAM KORTUM, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

 9:45 am

Break

 

 

10:00 am 

MARK AGUIAR, University of Rochester and NBER

 

MANUEL AMADOR, Stanford University and NBER

 

Growth in the Shadow of Expropriation

 

 

 

Discussant: EMMANUEL FARHI, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

11:00 am

SIMON JOHNSON, MIT and NBER

 

WILLIAM LARSON, George Washington University

 

CHRIS PAPAGEORGIOU, International Monetary Fund

 

ARVIND SUBRAMANIAN, Peterson Institute for International Economics

 

Is Newer Better?  The Penn World Table Revisions and the Cross-Country Growth Literature

 

 

 

Discussant: ROBERT FEENSTRA, UC, Davis and NBER

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER

 

PHILIPPE AGHION, Harvard University and NBER

 

LEONARDO BURSZTYN and DAVID HEMOUS, Harvard University

 

The Environment and Directed Technical Change

 

 

 

Discussant: NANCY STOKEY, University of Chicago

 

 

 2:00 pm

Break

 

 

2:15 pm

LEVON BARSEGHYAN, Cornell University

 

RICCARDO DICECIO, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

 

Entry Costs, Misallocation, and Cross-Country Income and TFP Differences

 

 

 

Discussant: ALEX MONGE-NARANJO, Pennsylvania State University

 

 

 3:15 pm

DAVID LAGAKOS and MICHAEL WAUGH, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

 

Specialization, Economic Development and Aggregate Productivity Differences

 

 

 

Discussant: FRANCESCO CASELLI, London School of Economics and NBER

 

 

 4:15 pm

Adjourn

 

 

(Note: The inaugural Martin Feldstein Lecture, this year given by John Taylor, starts at 4:30pm in the Ballroom at the Royal Sonesta Hotel.)

 

 

 6:30pm  

Group Dinner for the Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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