Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meeting

Members of the NBER's Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Program met March 15 in Cambridge. Program Directors Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and Josh Lerner of Harvard Business School, Research Associate Serguey Braguinsky of the University of Maryland, and Faculty Research Fellow Sabrina T. Howell of New York University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Shai Bernstein and Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER, and Timothy McQuade and Beatriz Pousada, Stanford University, "The Contribution of High-Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United States"

* Greer K. Gosnell, London School of Economics; John A. List, University of Chicago and NBER; and Robert Metcalfe, Boston University, "The Impact of Management Practices on Employee Productivity: A Field Experiment with Airline Captains" (NBER Working Paper No. 25620)

* Laurent Fresard, University of Lugano and Sustainable Forestry Initiative, and Gerard Hoberg and Donald E. Bowen III, University of Maryland, "Technological Disruptiveness and the Evolution of IPOs and Sell-Outs"

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