Technological Change

Date

Thursday, November 14, 2002 – Friday, November 15, 2002

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


Workshop
	November 14, 2002 – Afternoon 4th Floor Conference Room
	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
	November 15, 2002 – Morning 4th Floor Conference Room
	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
	November 15, 2002 – Afternoon
	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

	*presenter