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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2011

 

Economic Growth Workshop

 

Chad Jones and Francesco Caselli, Organizers

 

July 15, 2011

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Skyline Suites

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

Friday, July 15:

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

9:00 am

Ufuk Akcigit, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

William R. Kerr, Harvard University and NBER

Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations

 

Discussant: Rasmus Lentz, University of Wisconsin at Madison and NBER

 

10:00 am

Break

 

10:15 am

Juan Carlos Cordoba, Iowa State University

Marla Ripoll, University of Pittsburgh

A Contribution to the Economic Theory of Fertility

 

Discussant: David Weil, Brown University and NBER

 

11:15 am

Douglas Gollin, Williams College

David Lagakos, Arizona State University

Michael Waugh, New York University

The Agricultural Productivity Gap in Developing Countries

 

Discussant: Dietrich Vollrath, University of Houston

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

  

1:15 pm

Ezra D. Oberfield, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Business Networks, Production Chains, and Productivity

 

Discussant: Vasco Carvalho, CREI

 

2:15 pm

Break

  

2:30 pm

Kiminori Matsuyama, Northwestern University

Endogenous Ranking and Equilbirum Lorenz Curve Among (ex-ante) Identical Countries

 

Discussant: Arnaud Costinot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

3:30 pm

Nicola Gennaioli, CREI

Rafael La Porta, Dartmouth College and NBER

Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, EDHEC Business School and NBER

Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER

Human Capital and Regional Development

 

Discussant: Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago and NBER

 

4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

6:30 pm

Reception and Dinner for the Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting