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The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Technological Change

This workshop is sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.

Workshop Attendance is by invitation only.
 
November 14, 2002 - Afternoon
4th Floor Conference Room
  2:00 - 2:05 pm   Opening Remarks
  Robert Parry, President
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
  2:05 - 3:35 pm   "Productivity Growth in the Industrial Revolution: A New Growth Accounting Perspective"
  Nick Crafts*, London School of Economics
  Discussant: Brad DeLong, University of California, Berkeley
  3:35 - 4:00 pm   Break
  4:00 - 5:30 pm   "The Transition to a New Economy After the Second Industrial Revolution"
  Andy Atkeson*, UCLA
Pat Kehoe, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
  Discussant: John Williams, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
  5:45 - 7:15 pm   Reception
 
November 15, 2002 - Morning
4th Floor Conference Room
  8:30 - 9:00 am   Continental Breakfast
  9:00 - 10:30 am   "The Baby Boom and Baby Bust: Some Macroeconomics for Population Economics"
  Jeremy Greenwood*, University of Rochester
Ananth Seshadri, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Guillaume Vandenbroucke, University of Rochester
  Discussant: Matthias Doepke, UCLA, Written Comments (PDF - 346KB)
  10:30 - 11:00 am   Break
  11:00 - 12:30 pm   "Vintage Capital as an Origin of Inequalities"
  Andreas Hornstein, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Per Krusell, University of Rochester
Giovanni Violante*, New York University
  Discussant: Chad Jones, University of California, Berkeley
  12:30 - 2:00 pm   Lunch
 
November 15, 2002 - Afternoon
  2:00 - 3:30 pm   "Human Capital and Technology Diffusion"
(revised November 12, 2002)
  Jess Benhabib*, New York University
Mark Spiegel, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
  Discussant: Rody Manuelli, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  3:30 - 4:00 pm   Break
  4:00 - 5:30 pm   "Importing Technology"
  Francesco Caselli, Harvard University
Daniel Wilson*, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
  Discussant: Robert Feenstra, University of California, Davis
 
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  Last updated on Nov 12, 2002