Productivity, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Program, co-directed by Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and Josh Lerner of Harvard University, met in Cambridge on March 20. These papers were discussed:

* David C. Chan, Jr., Stanford University and NBER, "The Efficiency of Slacking Off: Evidence from the Emergency Department" (NBER Working Paper No. 21002)

* Ariel Dora Stern, Harvard University, "Innovation under Regulatory Uncertainty: Evidence from Medical Technology"

* Lee G. Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER; Chirantan Chatterjee, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; and Matthew Higgins, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER, "Starving or Fattening the Golden Goose? Generic Entry and the Incentives for Early-Stage Pharmaceutical Innovation" (NBER Working Paper No. 20532)

* Prithwiraj Choudhury and Taran Khanna, Harvard University, "Ex-Ante Information Provision and Innovation: Natural Experiment of...