Program on Technological Progress and Productivity Measurement.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on Technological Progress and Productivity Measurement met in Cambridge on March 20. Ernst R. Berndt, NBER and MIT, and Christopher R. Knittel, NBER and University of California, Davis, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Jacques Mairesse, INSEE and NBER; Francesco Lissoni, University of Brescia; Fabio Montobbio, Universita Bocconi; and Michele Pezzoni, University of Bergamo, "Determinants of Promotion and Scientific Productivity: A Study on Italian and French Academic Physicists"

* Fiona Murray, MIT; Philippe Aghion, Harvard University and NBER; Julian Kolev, Harvard University; Scott Stern, Northwestern University and NBER; and Mathias Dewatripont, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, "Of Mice and Academics: Examining the Effects of Openness on Innovation" (NBER Working Paper No. 14819)

* Ashish Arora, Duke University; Lee G. Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER; and...