NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2010

 

Joint Session with the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth

 

July 19-20, 2010

 

Ernst R. Berndt, Carol Corrado and Charles R. Hulten, Co-Organizers

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

University BC

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 19:

 

 

 8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

 8:30 am

CAROL CORRADO, The Conference Board

 

PETER GOODRIDGE, Office of National Statistics, U.K.

 

JONATHAN HASKEL, Imperial College Business School

 

Constructing a Price Deflator for R&D: Calculating the Price of Knowledge Investment as a Residual

 

 

 

Discussant:  DANIEL SICHEL, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

 9:30 am

Break

 

 

 9:45 am

WENDY LI, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

Depreciation of Business R&D Capital

 

 

 

Discussant:  ERNST R. BERNDT, MIT and NBER

 

 

10:45 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

Panel Discussion:  “Innovation Measurement:  An Update”,

 

JULIA LANE, National Science Foundation, (Moderator)

 

AUDREY KINDLON , National Science Foundation

 

WESLEY M. COHEN, Duke University and NBER

 

TIMOTHY STURGEON, MIT

 

NICHOLAS GREENIA, Internal Revenue Service/SOI

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

SUSAN HOUSEMAN, The Upjohn Institute

 

CHRIS KURZ, PAUL LENGERMANN, BENJAMIN R. MANDEL, Federal Reserve Board

 

Offshoring Bias and U.S. Manufacturing: Implications for Productivity and Value Added

 

 

 

Discussant: MICHAEL HORRIGAN, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

 

2:00 pm

Break

 

 

  2:15 pm

RALF MARTIN, London School of Economics

 

Productivity Spreads, Market Power Spreads and Trade

 

 

 

Discussant:  CAROL CORRADO, The Conference Board

 

 

 3:15 pm

Break

 

 

 3:30 pm

CHARLES R. HULTEN, University of Maryland and NBER

 

JANET HAO and KIRSTEN JAEGER, The Conference Board

 

Macro versus Micro Comparisons of Intangible Capital: The Case of Germany and the U.S.

 

 

 

MISSAKA WARUSAWITHARANA, Federal Reserve Board

 

Firm Lifecycle Financing

 

 

 

Discussant:  KEVIN J. FOX, University of New South Wales

 

 

 5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

TUESDAY, JULY 20:

 

 

 8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

 8:30 am

XI CHEN, Yale University

 

WILLIAM D. NORDHAUS, Yale University and NBER

 

The Value of Luminosity Data as a Proxy for Economic Statistics

 

 

 

Discussant: BENJAMIN JONES, Northwestern Kellogg School and NBER

 

 

 9:30 am

Break

 

 

 9:45 am

BRUCE D. MEYER, University of Chicago and NBER

 

ROBERT GOERGE, University of Chicago

 

The Analysis of Food Stamp Program Participation with Matched Administrative and Survey Data

 

 

 

Discussant:  DAVID JOHNSON, Bureau of the Census

 

 

10:45 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

J. TRENT ALEXANDER and MICHAEL DAVERN, University of Pennsylvania

 

BETSEY STEVENSON, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Inaccurate age and sex data in the Census PUMS files: Evidence and Implications

 

 

 

Discussant:  WILLIAM WASCHER, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 1:00 pm

Remembrances (Jeff Bernstein and Angus Maddison)

 

 

 1:30 pm

JOHN GREENLEES and ROBERT MCCLELLAND, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

Does Quality Adjustment Matter for Technologically Stable Products? An Application to the CPI for Food

 

 

 

Discussant:  MARSHALL REINSDORF, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

 

 2:30 pm

Break

 

 

 2:45 pm

W. ERWIN DIEWERT, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

The Decomposition of a House Price index into Land and Structures Components: A Hedonic Regression Approach

 

 

 

Discussant:  ARIEL PAKES, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 3:45 pm

Break

 

 

 4:00 pm

JOSEPH B. NICHOLS , STEPHEN D. OLINER and MICHAEL R. MULHALL, Federal Reserve Board

 

Commercial and Residential Land Prices Across the United States

 

 

 

Discussant:  ANA AIZCORBE, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

 

 5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

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