Friday, November 18 - Saturday, November 19, 2005
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
First Floor
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AGENDA (PDF version – 66.8KB) |
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Friday, November 18 |
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| 8:15 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:45 a.m. | Welcoming Remarks |
| Frederick T. Furlong, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | |
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 |
| 10:15 a.m. | Break |
| 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 |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch, Market Street Dining Room, Fourth Floor |
| Afternoon Session | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6:00 p.m. | Reception, West Market Street Lounge, Fourth Floor |
| 7:00 p.m. | Dinner, Market Street
Dining Room, Fourth Floor Keynote Speaker: Dale W. Jorgenson, Harvard University “Information Technology and the World Economy” |
Saturday, November 19 |
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| 8:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
Morning Session | |
| 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 |
| 10:15 a.m. | Break |
| 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 |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch, First Floor Conference Center |
| 1:00 p.m. | Adjourn |