NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2008

 

Conference on Research in Income and Wealth

 

July 14-15, 2008

 

Ernst R. Berndt, Carol A. Corrado, and Charles R. Hulten, Organizers

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Charles B

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, MA

 

PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 14:

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

Welcoming Remarks and Session I

 

 

 

ANGUS DEATON, Princeton University and NBER

 

ALAN HESTON, University of Pennsylvania

 

The 2005 ICP Benchmark, PWT and Some Health Warnings

 

 

 

Discussant:  BART VAN ARK, The Conference Board

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:30 am

Session II

 

 

 

AMIL PETRIN, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

JAMES LEVINSOHN, University of Michigan and NBER

 

Measuring Aggregate Productivity Growth Using Plant-Level Data

 

 

 

NICHOLAS GREENIA, Internal Revenue Service

 

KAYE HUSBANDS-FEALING, University of Minnesota

 

JULIA LANE, National Science Foundation

 

Studying Innovation in  Businesses: New Research Possibilities

 

 

 

Discussant:  CHAD SYVERSON, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

12:00 pm  

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

Session III

 

 

 

BONNIE MURPHY and ROSLYN SWICK, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

Adjusting the General Hospital Producer Price Index for Quality Change and Creating Alternative Multi-Industry Medical Care Price Indexes Structured by Disease

 

 

 

RALPH BRADLEY, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

Experimental Disease Based Price Indexes Using the Cpi Production Database and the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey

 

 

 

Discussant:  ART SENSENIG, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

 

 

 2:30 pm

Break

 

 

 3:00 pm

Session IV

 

 

 

JOHN GREENLEES and ROBERT McCLELLAND, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

Price Differentials Across Outlets in Consumer Price Index Data, 2002-2007

 

 

 

Discussant:  MARSHALL REINSDORF, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

 

 4:00 pm

Session V

 

 

 

W. ERWIN DIEWERT, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

The Measurement of Nonmarket Sector Outputs and Inputs Using Cost Weights

 

 

 

Discussant:  PAUL SCHREYER, OECD

 

 

 5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

TUESDAY, JULY 15:

 

 

 9:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:30 am

Session V

 

 

 

ADAM ASHCRAFT and CHARLES STEINDEL, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

Measuring the Impact of Securitization on Imputed Bank Output

 

 

 

CHARLES R. HULTEN, University of Maryland and NBER

 

JANET HAO, The Conference Board

 

Intangible Capital and the “Market to Book Value” Puzzle

 

 

10:30 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

Session VI

 

 

 

ADAM COPELAND, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

DENNIS FIXLER, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

Measuring the Price of Research and Development Output

 

 

 

CAROL A. CORRADO, The Conference Board

 

CHARLES R. HULTEN, University of Maryland and NBER

 

Stylized Facts and Parables of Economic Growth: The Emerging Role of Intangible Capital

 

 

12:00 pm  

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

Session VII

 

 

 

JEREMY GREENWOOD, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

KAREN KOPECKY, University of Western Ontario

 

Measuring the Welfare Gain from Personal Computers

 

 

 

SHANE GREENSTEIN, Northwestern University and NBER

 

RYAN C. MCDEVITT, Northwestern University

 

The Broadband Bonus: Accounting for Broadband Internet’s Impact on U.S. GDP

 

 

 

Discussant:  DANIEL SICHEL, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

 2:30 pm

Break

 

 

 3:00 pm

Session VIII

 

 

 

BARBARA FRAUMENI, University of Southern Maine and NBER

 

Productive Highway Capital Stocks and the Contribution of Highway Growth

 

 

 

Discussant:  ANDERS ISAKSSON, UNIDO

 

 

 4:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5/27/08