NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC
RESEARCH, INC
Conference on Research on Income
and Wealth
Ernst R. Berndt, Charles M.
Hulten, and David W. Wilcox, Co-organizers
July 28-29,
2003
Royal
Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge
Parkway
Cambridge,
MA
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
MONDAY, JULY 28:
8:30 AM Coffee and Pastries
9:00 AM ANA AIZCORBE, STEPHEN OLINER
and DANIEL SICHEL,
Federal
Reserve Board Semiconductor Price Puzzles
Discussant: IAIN
COCKBURN, Boston University and NBER
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM CAROL
CORRADO, WENDY DUNN, and MARIA OTOO,
Federal Reserve Board,
An Initial Look at Incentives and Prices for Motor
Vehicles:
What Has Been Happening in Recent
Years?
Discussant: MELVYN FUSS,
University of Toronto and NBER
11:15 AM Break
11:30 AM MANUEL
TRAJTENBERG, Tel Aviv University and NBER
Defense R&D in the
Anti-terrorist Era
Discussant: ELI BERMAN, UC, San Diego and NBER
12:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM TEAGUE RUDER and TED TO,
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Hedonic Regressions with Supply
and Demand Controls: An Example Using Stereo Receiver Scanner Data
Discussant: DANIEL SICHEL, Federal Reserve Board
2:30 PM Break
2:45 PM KARI MANNINEN, BEA and
University of Helsinski
Controlling for Quality Change in
Digital Camera Price Index
Discussant: AMIL PETRIN, University of Chicago and NBER
3:45 PM Break
4:00 PM JAISON ABEL, Analysis Group
ERNST R. BERNDT, MIT and NBER
ALAN G. WHITE, Analysis Group
Price Indexes for Microsoft's Personal Computer Software Products
Discussant: DAVID JOHNSON, Bureau
of Labor Statistics
5:00 PM Adjourn
TUESDAY, JULY 29:
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM ROBERT
MCGUCKIN and SEAN DOUGHERTY, Conference Board
ROBERT C. INKLAAR, Netherlands
BART VAN ARK, Conference Board
International Comparisons of R&D:
Expenditure:
Does R & D PPP Make a Difference?
Discussant: JEFFREY BERNSTEIN,
Carleton University and NBER
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM MAURY
GITTLEMAN, Bureau of Labor Statistics
THIJS TEN RAA, Tilbug University
EDWARD N. WOLFF, New York
University and NBER
The Vintage Effect in TFP Growth:
An Analysis of the Age Structure
of Capital
Discussant: W. ERWIN DIEWERT, University of British
Columbia and NBER
11:15 AM Break
11:30 AM FRANK
C. WYKOFF, Pomona College
Obsolescence in Economic
Depreciation from the Point of View of the Revaluation Term
Discussant: MICHAEL HARPER, Bureau of Labor Statistics
12:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM DENNIS
FIXLER, MARSHALL REINSDORF, and GEORGE SMITH
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Revised Nominal Measures of the Implicit Services of Financial Intermediaries
in the National Income and Product Accounts
Discussant: JACK E. TRIPLETT, Brookings Institution
2:30 PM Break
2:45 PM CINDY ZOGHI, and SABRINA
PABILONIA, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Which Workers Gain from Computer
Use?
Discussant: B. K. ATROSTIC, Census Bureau
3:45 PM Break
4:00 PM LUCIA FOSTER, Census Bureau
JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of
Maryland and NBER
CHAD SYVERSON, University of
Chicago and NBER
Reallocation, Firm Turnover and
Efficiency:
Reallocation, Firm Turnover, and Efficiency: Selection on Productivity or
Profitability?
Discussant: MARK ROBERTS, Pennsylvania State University
and NBER
5:00 PM Adjourn
6/9/03