Productivity program meeting.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Conference news - Brief article

The NBER's Program on Technological Progress and Productivity Measurement, directed by NBER Research Associates Nick Bloom of Stanford University and Josh Lerner of the Harvard Business School, met in Cambridge on March 11, 2011. These papers were discussed:

* Oriana Bandiera and Andrea Prat, London School of Economics; Luigi Guiso, European University Institute; and Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER, "What Do CEOs Do?"

* Yi Qian, Northwestern University and NBER, "Counterfeiters: Foes or Friends"(NBER Working Paper No. 16785)

* Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto, and Justin Sydnor, Case Western Reserve University, "Is High-Quality Production Location-Specific? Evidence from...