NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC

 

Conference on Research on Income and Wealth

 

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

 

July 26-27, 2004

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA

 

PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 26:

 

 

  8:30 a.m.

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

  9:00 a.m.

HYOWOOK CHIANG, University of Maryland

 

CHERYL GRIM, University of Maryland

 

JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland and NBER

 

LARRY HUNTER, University of Wisconsin, Madison

 

RON JARMIN, Bureau of the Census

 

NICOLE NESTORIAK, University of Maryland

 

KRISTIN SANDUSKY, LEHD

 

JEONGIL SEO, University of Wisconsin, Madison

 

Firm Performance, Workforce Quality and Workforce Churning 

 

 

 

 

Discussant:  KATHRYN SHAW, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

10:00 a.m.

Break

 

 

10:15 a.m.

ELIZABETH DAVIS, University of Minnesota

 

MATTHEW FREEDMAN, University of Maryland

 

JULIA LANE, Urban Institute

 

BRIAN MCCALL, University of Minnesota

 

NICOLA NESTORIAK, University of Maryland

 

TIMOTHY PARK, University of Georgia

 

How Do Industry Human Resource Practices Change? The Impact of Competition on the Retail Food Sector

 

 

 

Discussant:  RON JARMIN, Census Bureau

 

 

11:15 a.m.

Break

 

 

11:30 a.m.

HYOWOOK CHIANG, University of Maryland

 

CHIP HUNTER, University of Wisconsin

 

RON JARMIN, Census Bureau

 

NICOLE NESTORIAK, University of Maryland

 

KRISTIN SANDUSKY, LEHD

 

JEONGIL SEO, University of Wisconsin

 

Internal Labor Markets and Diversification Strategies in Financial Services

 

 

 

Discussant:  JEFFREY BERNSTEIN, Carleton University and NBER

 

 

12:30 p.m.

Lunch

 

 

  1:30 p.m.

FREDRIK ANDERSSON, Bureau of the Census

 

MIKE BELZER, Wayne State University

 

CLAIR BROWN, UC, Berkeley

 

BENJAMIN CAMPBELL, UC, Berkeley

 

YOOKI PARK, UC, Berkeley

 

STAN SEDO, University of Michigan

 

Thriving or Surviving? Firms’ Job Ladders and Workers’ Career Paths in High-Tech and Low-Tech Industries

 

 

 

Discussant:  EDWARD N. WOLFF, New York University and NBER

 

 

  2:30 p.m.

Break

 

 

  2:45 p.m.

RALF MARTIN, London School of Economics

 

Computing the True Spread

 

 

 

 

Discussant:  J. JOSEPH BEAULIEU, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

  3:45 p.m.

Break

 

 

  4:00 p.m.

STEVEN DAVIS, University of Chicago and NBER

 

JOHN HALTIWANGER, Maryland and NBER

 

Electricity Prices in U.S. Manufacturing, 1963-2000

 

 

 

Discussant: WAYNE GRAY, Clark University and NBER

 

 

  5:00 p.m.

Adjourn

 

 

TUESDAY, JULY 27, 2004

 

 

  8:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

 

 

  9:00 a.m.

ANA AIZCORBE, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

Price Indexes for Intermittent Purchases and an

 

Application to Price Deflators for High Technology Goods

 

 

 

Discussant: MIKE HARPER, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

 

10:00 a.m.

Break

 

 

10:15 a.m.

CHRISTOPHER R. KNITTEL, UC, Davis and NBER

 

VICTOR STANGO, Dartmouth College

 

Compatibility and Pricing with Indirect Network Effects: 

 

Evidence from ATMs

 

 

 

Discussant:  ELIZABETH KISER, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

11:15 a.m.

Break

 

 

11:30 a.m.

ALAN WHITE and JAISON ABEL, Analysis Group

 

ERNST BERNDT, MIT and NBER

 

CORY MONROE, MIT

 

Hedonic Price Indexes for Personal Computer Operating Systems

 

and Productivity Suite

 

 

 

Discussant:  TIMOTHY ERICKSON, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

 

12:30 p.m.

Lunch

 

 

  1:30 p.m.

CAROL CORRADO, Federal Reserve Board

 

CHARLES HULTEN, University of Maryland and NBER

 

DANIEL SICHEL, Federal Reserve Board

 

The Contribution of Intangible Investments to U.S. Economic Growth: A Sources-of-Growth Analysis

 

 

 

Discussant: DALE JORGENSON, Harvard University

 

 

  2:30 p.m.

Break

 

 

  2:45 p.m.

ARTURO ESTRELLA, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

Decoding Productivity: 

 

Decoding Productivity: Business Cycle Properties of Labor Productivity Growth

 

 

 

Discussant:  ROBERT GORDON, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

  3:45 p.m.

Break

 

 

  4:00 p.m.

MIKE HARPER and PETER B. MEYER, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

Research on Preliminary Estimates of Multifactor Productivity Growth

 

 

 

Discussant:  DANIEL SICHEL, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

 5:00 p.m.

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

7/7/04