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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

 

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2009

 

 

 

Innovation Policy and the Economy

 

 

 

Pai-Ling Yin and Jeff Furman, Organizers

 

 

 

July 20, 2009

 

 

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

University BC

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

 

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

 

 

PROGRAM

 

 

MONDAY, JULY 20

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9:00 am

VIRAL ACHARYA, London Business School and NBER

 

RAMIN BAGHAI, London Business School

 

KRISHNAMURTHY SUBRAMANIAN, Emory University

 

Labor Laws and Innovation

 

 

 

Discussant: AMALIA MILLER, University of Virginia

 

 

9:50 am

NICOLAS SERRANO-VELARDE, Oxford University

 

Crowding-Out At The Top: The Heterogeneous Impact of R&D Subsidies on Firm Investment

 

 

 

Discussant: PIERRE AZOULAY, MIT and NBER

 

 

10:40 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

ROBERT HUNT and GERALD CARLINO, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

 

What Explains the Quantity and Quality of Local Inventive Activity?

 

 

 

Discussant: MARGARET KYLE, London Business School and NBER

 

 

11:50 am

CAROLIN HÄUSSLER, Ludwig Maximilians Universität - Munich

 

JERRY THURSBY, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

MARIE THURSBY, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER

 

General and Specific Informatin Sharing Among Academic Scientists

 

 

 

Discussant:  NICO LACETERA, Case Western Reserve

 

 

12:40 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:40 pm

MEGAN MacGARVIE, Boston University and NBER

 

SHULAMIT KAHN, Boston University

 

How Important is U.S. Location for Research in Science?

 

 

 

Discussant:  JENNY HUNT, McGill University and NBER

 

 

2:30 pm

FABIAN WALDINGER, London School of Economics

 

Peer Effects in Science - Evidence from the Dismissal of Scientists in Nazi Germany

 

 

 

Discussant:   BRUCE WEINBERG, Ohio State University and NBER)

 

 

3:20 pm

Break

 

 

3:35 pm

Panel:  Developing a Science of Science Policy – Research Challenges and Opportunities

 

 

 

JOSHUA ANGRIST, MIT and NBER

 

ADAM JAFFE, Brandeis University and NBER (background paper)

 

JULIA LANE, National Science Foundation (background paper)

 

 

4:50 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

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