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...Productivity: Level Evidence"

Discussant: Susan Helper, Case Western Reserve University and NBER

Nick Bloom, Stanford University and NBER, "The Impact Uncertainty Shocks: A Firm-Level Estimation and a 9/11 Simulation"

Discussant: Susanto Basu, Boston College and NBER

Timothy Erickson, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Ariel Pakes, Harvard University and NBER, "An Experimental Component Index for the CPI: From Annual Computer Data to the Monthly Data on Other Goods"

Discussant: Jack Triplett, Brookings Institution

James Adams, Rensselaer Polytechnic Insitute and NBER: Announcement of the NBER-RPI Scientific Papers Database

"Recent US Productivity Growth: A One-Time Blip or Sustainable?"--a panel discussion moderated by Ernst R. Berndt--presentations by: Kevin J. Stiroh, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Dale W. Jorgenson, Harvard University, "A Retrospective Look at the U.S. Productivity Growth Resurgence"; Daniel Sichel, Federal Reserve Board; Robert J. Gordon, Northwestern University and NBER, "Exploding Productivity Growth: Context, Causes, and Implication"; and Barry Bosworth and Jack Triplett, Brookdngs Institution, "The 21st Century Productivity Expansion Is STILL in Services"

Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER, and Aviv Nevo, Northwestern University and NBER, "Errors in Self-Reported Data: A Cross-Validation of Homescan Data"

Discussant: Alvin J. Silk, Harvard University

In an effort to reveal the fine-grained relationships between IT use, patterns of information flows, and individual information-worker productivity, Aral, Brynjolfsson, and Alstyne study task-level practices at a midsize executive recruiting firm. They analyze both project-level and individual-level performance using: 1) detailed accounting data on revenues, compensation, project completion rates, and team membership for over 1300 projects spanning five years; 2) direct observation of over 125,000 e-mail messages over a period of ten months by individual workers; and 3) data on a matched set of the same workers' self-reported IT skills, IT use, and information sharing. These...

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