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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2011

NBER/CRIW Workshop

Ernst Berndt, Nick Bloom, Carol Corrado and Charles Hulten, Organizers

July 18 - 19, 2011

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

Monday, July 18:

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:30 am

Dan Sichel, Federal Reserve Board

 

Prices of Nails and Screws since 1700: What Can We Learn from Prices of Quotidian Products?

 

 

 

Discussant: Robert J. Gordon, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

9:30 am

Break

 

 

9:45 am

Mick Silver, International Monetary Fund

 

Residential Property Price Indexes: Does Measurement Matter?

 

 

 

Discussant: Marshall Reinsdorf, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

 

10:45 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

W. Erwin Diewert, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

Alternative Approaches to Measuring House Price Inflation

 

 

 

Discussant: Stephen Oliner, University of California at Los Angeles

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

Alberto Cavallo, MIT

 

Argentina: Inflation and Lies

 

 

 

Discussant: Barry Bosworth, Brookings Institution

 

 

2:00 pm

Break

 

 

2:15 pm

Anne Hall, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

Geographic Variation and the Adoption and Diffusion of Medical Technology

 

 

 

Discussant: Jonathan Skinner, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

3:15 pm

Break

 

 

3:30 pm

Ana Aizcorbe, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Ralph Bradley, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Bread Herauf, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

Richard Kane, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Eli Liebman, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

Sarah Pack, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Lyubov Rozental, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

Alternative Price Indexes for Medical Care: Evidence from the MEPS Survey

 

4:00 pm

Abraham Dunn, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

Adam Shapiro, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

Eli Leibman, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

Geographic Medical Expenditure Index: Implications for Productivity in Private Health Care Markets

 

 

 

Discussant: Sean Nicholson, Cornell University and NBER

 

 

4:45 pm

Adjourn

 

 

Tuesday, July 19:

 

 

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

8:30 am

Eric J. Bartelsman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Christopher J. Kurz, Federal Reserve Board

Zoltan Wolf, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Using Census Microdata to Forecast U.S. Aggregate Productivity

Discussant: Susanto Basu, Boston College and NBER

 

 

9:30 am

Break

9:45 am

David Byrne, Federal Reserve Board

Brian Kovak, Carnegie Mellon University

Ryan Michaels, University of Rochester

Pricing and Product Sourcing in an Offshoring Market: Evidence from Semiconductor Production Services

Discussant: Kenneth Flamm, University of Texas

 

 

10:45 am

Break

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

1:00 pm

Marcel Timmer, University of Groningen

Abdul Azeez Erumban, University of Groningen

Bart Los, University of Groningen

Gaaitzen de Vries, University of Groningen

Robert Stehrer, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies

 

Slicing Up Global Value Chains: The Role of China

 

 

 

Discussant: Susan Houseman, The Upjohn Institute

 

2:00 pm

Break

 

 

2:15 pm

Charles R. Hulten, University of Maryland and NBER
Janet X. Hao, The Conference  Board
Lixing Li, Peking University

 

Intangible Capital and the Sources of Recent Chinese Economic Growth

 

 

 

Discussant: Mark Dutz, The World Bank

 

 

3:15 pm

Break

3:30 pm

Sun Ling Wang, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Fred Gale, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Francis Tuan, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Agapi Somwaru, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture

 

Recent Trends in China’s Agricultural Productivity Growth at Province Level: 1985-2007

 

 

 

Discussant: Bart van Ark, The Conference Board

 

 

4:30 pm

 Adjourn