NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH,
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Conference on Research on Income and
Wealth |
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Ernst R. Berndt, Carol Corrado, and
Charles R. Hulten, Co-organizers |
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July 25-26, 2005 |
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Royal Sonesta Hotel |
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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM |
MONDAY, JULY
25: |
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8:30 am |
Coffee and Pastries |
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9:00 am |
AMIL PETRIN, |
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JAMES LEVINSOHN, |
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Measuring and Mismeasuring Agregate Productivity
Growth Using Plant-Level Data |
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Discussant: JOHN
HALTIWANGER, |
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10:00 am |
Break |
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10:15 am |
KEVIN STIROH, Federal
Reserve Bank of |
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Volatility Accounting: A Production View of Increased
Economic Stability |
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Discussant: SUSANTO
BASU, |
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11:15 am |
Break |
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11:30 am |
MARK DOMS, Federal
Reserve Bank of |
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ETHAN LEWIS, Federal
Reserve Bank of |
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Discussant: ELLEN DULBERGER, IBM Global Services |
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12:30 pm |
Lunch |
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1:30 pm |
Results from New
Datasets (45 minutes each) |
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DAVID NEUMARK, JUNFU
ZHANG, and |
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Public Policy
Institute of |
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MARCELA ESLAVA, |
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JOHN HALTIWANGER, |
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ADRIANA KUGLER, |
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MAURICE KUGLER, |
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Plant Survival, Market Fundamentals and Trade
Liberalization |
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3:00 pm |
Break |
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3:15 pm |
Roundtable: The Upcoming Revision to the UN System
of National Accounts |
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CHARLES HULTEN, |
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BARBARA FRAUMENI,
Bureau of Economic Analysis |
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TAREK HARCHAOUI,
Statistics |
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JACQUES MAIRESSE,
INSEE and NBER |
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5:00 pm |
Adjourn |
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TUESDAY, JULY
26, 2005 |
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8:30 am |
Coffee and Pastries |
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9:00 am
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Updates (20 minutes each) |
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B.K. ATROSTIC and
SANG V. NGUYEN, Bureau of the Census |
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ANA AIZCORBE, Bureau
of Economic Analysis |
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Price
Deflators for High-Technology Goods and the New Buyer Problem |
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FRANK WYKOFF, |
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Obsolescence vs. Deterioration with Embodied
Technological Change |
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10:00 am |
Break |
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10:15 am |
ROBERT FEENSTRA, UC,
Davis and NBER |
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MICHAEL HARPER,
Bureau of Labor Statistics |
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MARSHALL REINSDORF,
Bureau of Economic Analysis |
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MATTHEW J.
SLAUGHTER, |
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Discussant: ERWIN
DIEWERT, |
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11:30 am |
JUAN CARLOS HALLAK, |
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PETER SCHOTT, |
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Discussant: MARSHALL REINSDORF, Bureau of Economic
Analysis |
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12:30 pm |
Lunch |
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1:30 pm |
ERWIN DIEWERT, |
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DENIS LAWRENCE,
Meyrick and Associates |
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Australia's Productivity Growth and the Role of Information and Communications Technology: 1960-2004 |
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Discussant: DANIEL SICHEL, Federal Reserve Board |
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2:30 pm |
Break |
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2:45 pm |
MINJAE SONG, Georgia
Tech |
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Discussant: ROBERT McCLELLAND, Bureau of Labor
Statistics |
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3:45pm |
Break |
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4:00 pm |
Interim reports (30
minutes each) |
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ALAN WHITE, Analysis
Group |
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JAISON ABEL,
Analysis Group |
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SCOTT GOLDFARB, Q/P
Management Group |
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The Use of
Function Points in Developing Price Indexes for Custom Software: an Interim
Report |
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ROBERT SUMMERS, |
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Possible
Expansion of the Penn World Table |
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5:00 pm |
Adjourn |
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5/27/05 |
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