Economic growth.

• Position: Conferences - Conference news - Brief article

NBER Faculty Research Fellows Matthias Doepke, University of California, Los Angeles, and Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University, organized a "Conference on Economic Growth" which took place at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on February 12. These papers were discussed:

Michele Boldrin, Washington University, and David K. Levine, NBER and Washington University, "Quality Ladders, Competition, and Endogenous Growth"

Diego Comin, NBER and Harvard Business School, and Bart Hobijn, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, "An Exploration of Technology Diffusion" (NBER Working Paper No. 12314)

Alexander Monge, Pennsylvania State University, "Foreign Firms, Domestic Entrepreneurial Skills, and Development"

Alice Schoonbroodt, University of Southampton, and Michele Tertilt, NBER...