Technological Change

Name: Technological Change
Start: November 14, 2002
End: November 15, 2002

Thursday, November 14 - Friday, November 15, 2002

Technological Change

This workshop is sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.

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Workshop
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?	2:00 – 2:05 pm	?	Opening Remarks
			?	Robert Parry, President Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
?	2:05 – 3:35 pm	?	“Productivity Growth in the Industrial Revolution: A New Growth Accounting Perspective”
			?	Nick Crafts, London School of Economics*
			?	Discussant: Brad DeLong, University of California, Berkeley
?	3:35 – 4:00 pm	?	Break
?	4:00 – 5:30 pm	?	“The Transition to a New Economy After the Second Industrial Revolution”
			?	Andy Atkeson, UCLA* Pat Kehoe, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
			?	Discussant: John Williams, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
?	5:45 – 7:15 pm	?	Reception
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?	8:30 – 9:00 am	?	Continental Breakfast
?	9:00 – 10:30 am	?	“The Baby Boom and Baby Bust: Some Macroeconomics for Population Economics”
			?	Jeremy Greenwood, University of Rochester* Ananth Seshadri, University of Wisconsin, Madison Guillaume Vandenbroucke, University of Rochester
			?	Discussant: Matthias Doepke, UCLA, Written Comments (PDF – 346KB)
?	10:30 – 11:00 am	?	Break
?	11:00 – 12:30 pm	?	“Vintage Capital as an Origin of Inequalities”
			?	Andreas Hornstein, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Per Krusell, University of Rochester Giovanni Violante, New York University*
			?	Discussant: Chad Jones, University of California, Berkeley
?	12:30 – 2:00 pm	?	Lunch
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?	2:00 – 3:30 pm	?	“Human Capital and Technology Diffusion” (revised November 12, 2002)
			?	Jess Benhabib, New York University* Mark Spiegel, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
			?	Discussant: Rody Manuelli, University of Wisconsin, Madison
?	3:30 – 4:00 pm	?	Break
?	4:00 – 5:30 pm	?	“Importing Technology”
			?	Francesco Caselli, Harvard University Daniel Wilson, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco*
			?	Discussant: Robert Feenstra, University of California, Davis
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