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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

 

 

Summer Institute 2009

 

 

 

Productivity Potpourri Workshop

 

 

 

Ernst Berndt, Organizer

 

 

 

July 16, 2009

 

 

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

 

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

 

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 15:

 

 

 6:00 pm

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

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 16:

 

 

 8:15 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 8:45 am

SUSANTO BASU, Boston College and NBER

 

LUIGI PASCALI, Boston College

 

FABIO SCHIANTARELLI, Boston College

 

LUIS SERVEN, The World Bank

 

Productivity, Welfare and Reallocation: Theory and …Firm-Level Evidence

 

 

 

Discussant:  CHAD SYVERSON, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

 9:45 am

Break

 

 

10:00 am

AMIL PETRIN, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

T. KIRK WHITE, US Department of Agriculture

 

JEROME P. REITER, Duke University

 

The Impact of Plant-Level Resource Reallocations and Technical Progress on U.S. Macroeconomic Growth

 

 

 

Discussant:  JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland and NBER

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

ALAN COLLARD-WEXLER, New York University

 

Productivity Dispersion and Plant Selection in the Ready-Mix Concrete Industry

 

 

 

Discussant:  CHAD SYVERSON, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:15 pm

NICHOLAS BLOOM, Stanford University and NBER

 

CAROL PROPPER, Imperial College

 

STEPHAN SEILER, London School of Economics

 

JOHN VAN REENEN, London School of Economics and NBER

 

Management Practices in Hospitals

 

 

 

Discussant:  ROBERT HUCKMAN, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 2:15 pm

Break

 

 

 2:30 pm

BO COWGILL, Google

 

ERIC ZITZEWITZ, Dartmouth College

 

Incentive Effects of Equity Compensation: Employee-level Evidence from Google

 

 

 

Discussant:  CAROLA FRYDMAN, MIT

 

 

 3:30 pm

Break

 

 

 3:45 pm

LORRAINE IVANCIC and KEVIN J. FOX,  University of New South Wales

 

W. ERWIN DIEWERT, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

Scanner Data, Time Aggregation and the Construction of Price Indexes

 

 

 

Discussant:  MARSHALL REINSDORF, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

 

 4:45 pm

Adjourn

 

 

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