Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship meeting.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, directed by NBER Research Associates Nick Bloom of Stanford University and Josh Lerner of the Harvard Business School, met in Cambridge on March 15, 2013. These papers were discussed:

* Daniel Paravisini, London School of Economics and NBER, and Antoinette Schoar, MIT and NBER, "The Information and Agency Effects of Scores: Randomized Evidence from Credit Committees"

* Eric Budish, University of Chicago; Benjamin Roin, Harvard Law School; and Heidi Williams, MIT and NBER, "Do Fixed Patent Terms Distort Innovation? Evidence from Cancer Clinical Trials"

* Pierre Azoulay, MIT and NBER; Jeffrey Furman, Boston University and NBER; and Joshua Krieger and Fiona Murray, MIT, "Retractions" (NBER Working Paper No. 18499)

* Daniel Bradley and Incheol Kim, University of South Florida, and Xuan Tian, Indiana University, "Providing Protection or Encouraging Holdup? The Effects...