NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC

 

Conference on Research on Income and Wealth

 

Summer Institute 2007

 

Ernst R. Berndt, Carol A. Corrado, and Charles R. Hulten, Co-organizers

 

July 16-17, 2007

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

University BC Room

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, MA

 

PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 16

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

CHARLES HULTEN, Welcoming Remarks

 

 

 9:15 am

DALE JORGENSON, Harvard University

 

MUN S. HO, Resources for the Future

 

JON SAMUELS, Johns Hopkins University

 

KEVIN STIROH, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

The Industry Origins of the American Productivity Resurgence

 

 

 

Discussant: JACK TRIPLETT, Brookings Institution

 

 

10:15 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am 

DAVID BYRNE and CAROL CORRADO, Federal Reserve Board

 

Prices for Communications Equipment: Updating and Revisiting the Record

 

 

 

Discussant: SHANE GREENSTEIN, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

CHARLES HULTEN, University of Maryland and NBER

 

ANDERS ISAKSSON, UNIDO

 

Roads to Prosperity:  Infrastructure and productivity at different stages of development

 

 

 

Discussant: W. ERWIN DIEWERT, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

 

 2:00 pm

Break

 

 

2:15 pm

JONATHAN HASKEL and MAURO GIORGIO MARRANO,

 

Queen Mary, University of London

 

GAVIN WALLIS, HM Treasury

 

What Happened to the Knowledge Economy? ICT, Intangible Investment and Britain’s Productivity Record Revisited

 

 

 

KYOJI FUKAO, Hitotsubashi University

 

SUMIO HAMAGATA, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry

 

TSUTOMU MIYAGAWA, Gakushuin University

 

KONOMI TONOGI, Hitotsubashi University

 

Intangible Investment in Japan: Measurement and Contribution to Economic Growth

 

 

 

Discussant: PAUL SCHREYER, OECD

 

 

 3:45 pm

Break

 

 

 4:00 pm

Panel on Intangibles and Economic Growth: Further Developments

 

ROBERT SOLOW, MIT (Chair)

 

CAROL CORRADO, Federal Reserve Board

 

BART VAN ARK, Conference Board

 

MICHAEL HARPER, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

CHARLES HULTEN, University of Maryland and NBER

 

 

 5:15 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 5:30 pm

Reception

 

50th anniversary celebration of the publication of Robert Solow’s Technical Change and the Aggregate Production Function

     

 

TUESDAY, JULY 17:

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am  

CINDY ZOGHI, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

Measuring Labor Composition: A Comparison of Alternate Methodologies

 

 

 

Discussant: JEFF ZABEL, Tufts University

 

 

10:00 am

ALESSANDRO BARBARINO, Federal Reserve Board

 

Measuring Unemployment Composition over the Business Cycle

 

 

 

Discussant: LISA LYNCH, Tufts University and NBER

 

 

11:00 am 

Break

 

 

11:15 pm

MARSHALL REINSDORF and JENNIFER RIBARSKY,

 

Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

Improved Measures of Nominal and Real Change in Inventories for the

National Accounts

 

 

 

THOMAS HOWELLS III, EDWARD MORGAN, DYLAN RASSIER and 

 

CONRAD ROESCH, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

Implementing a Reconciliation and Balancing Model in the U.S. Industry  Accounts

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:15 pm

JONATHAN HASKEL, Queen Mary, University of London

 

RON JARMIN, Bureau of the Census

 

KAZUYUKI MOTOHASI, University of Tokyo

 

RAFFAELLA SADUM, London School of Economics

 

Retail Market Structure and Dynamics: A Three Country Comparison of Japan, the U.K. and the U.S.

 

 

 

Discussant: BART VAN ARK, Conference Board

 

 

 2:15 pm

Break

 

 

 2:30 pm

ROBERT INKLAAR, University of Groningen

 

J. CHRISTINA WANG, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

 

Not Your Grandfather’s Bank Anymore?  Consistent Measurement of Non-traditional Bank Output

 

 

 

Discussant: KEVIN STIROH, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

 

 3:30 pm

Break

 

 

 3:45 pm

CHISTOPHER KNITTEL, UC, Davis and NBER

 

VICTOR STANGO, Dartmouth College

 

The Productivity Benefits to IT Outsourcing

 

 

 

Discussant: MATTHEW SLAUGHTER, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

 4:45 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

6/25/07