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Productivity
Growth:
Causes and Consequences
Federal Reserve
Bank of San Francisco
First Floor, November 18-19, 2005 |
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| Friday,
November 18 |
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| 8:15 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast |
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| 8:45 a.m. |
Welcoming Remarks |
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Frederick T. Furlong, Federal
Reserve Bank of San Francisco |
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| Morning
Session |
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| Chair: |
John Fernald, Federal
Reserve Bank of San Francisco |
| 9:00 a.m. |
"Why Did Europe's Productivity Catch-up Sputter Out? A Tale of Tigers and Tortoises" |
| Presenters: |
Robert Gordon and Ian Dew-Becker, Northwestern
University |
| Discussants: |
Bart Van Ark, University
of Gronigen and Conference Board
Susanto Basu, Boston College |
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| 10:15 a.m. |
Break |
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| 10:45 a.m. |
"The Burden of Knowledge and the Death of the Renaissance Man: Is Innovation Getting Harder" |
| Presenter: |
Ben Jones, Northwestern
University |
| Discussants: |
Sam Kortum, University
of Minnesota
Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University |
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| 12:00 p.m. |
Lunch, Market Street Dining
Room, Fourth Floor |
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| Afternoon
Session |
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| Chair: |
Dan Wilson, Federal Reserve
Bank of San Francisco |
| 1:30 p.m. |
"The Value of Life and the Rise in Health Spending" |
| Presenters: |
Robert Hall, Stanford
University
Chad Jones, UC Berkeley |
| Discussants: |
Robert Topel, University
of Chicago
Joseph Paul Newhouse, Harvard University |
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| 2:45 p.m. |
"Increasing Global Competition and Labor Productivity: Lessons from the U.S. Automotive Industry" |
| Presenters: |
Martin Neil Baily, Institute for International Economics
Diana Farrell, McKinsey Global Institute
Ezra Greenberg, McKinsey Global Institute
Jan-Dirk Henrich, McKinsey Global Institute
Naoko Jinjo, McKinsey Global Institute
Maya Jolles, McKinsey Global Institute
Jana Remes, McKinsey Global Institute |
| Discussants: |
Timothy Bresnahan, Stanford
University
George Hall, Yale University |
| 4:00 p.m. |
Break |
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| 4:30 p.m. |
"Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry" |
| Presenters: |
Nick Bloom, Stanford University
Mark Schankerman and John Van Reenen, London
School of Economics |
| Discussants: |
C. Lanier Benkard, Stanford University
Scott Stern, Northwestern University |
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| 6:00 p.m. |
Reception, West Market
Street Lounge, Fourth Floor |
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| 7:00 p.m. |
Dinner, Market Street
Dining Room, Fourth Floor
Keynote Speaker: Dale W. Jorgenson, Harvard
University
"Information Technology and the World Economy" |
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| Saturday,
November 19 |
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| 8:30 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast |
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| Morning Session |
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| Chair: |
Mark Doms, Federal Reserve
Bank of San Francisco |
| 9:00 a.m. |
"Learning About a New Technology: Pineapple in Ghana" |
| Presenters: |
Tim Conley, Chicago GSB
Christopher Udry, Yale University |
| Discussants: |
Yaw Nyarko, New York
University
Giorgio Topa, Federal Reserve Bank of
New York |
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| 10:15 a.m. |
Break |
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| 10:45 a.m. |
"Technology Adoption From Hybrid Corn to Beta Blockers" |
| Presenters: |
Jonathan Skinner and Douglas
Staiger, Dartmouth |
| Discussants: |
Pete Klenow, Stanford
University
Bart Hobijn, Federal Reserve Bank of
New York |
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| 12:00 p.m. |
Lunch, First Floor Conference
Center |
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| 1:00 p.m. |
Adjourn |
