Technological Progress & Productivity Measurement.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on Technological Progress & Productivity Measurement met in Cambridge on December 4, 2009. Ajay K. Agrawal, NBER and University of Toronto, and Benjamin Jones, NBER and Northwestern University, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Pierre Azoulay, MIT and NBER; Joshua Graff Zivin, Columbia University and NBER; and Gustavo Manso, MIT, "Incentives and Creativity: Evidence from the Academic Life Sciences" (NBER Working Paper No. 15466)

* Tim Simcoe, Boston University and NBER, "What's in a (Missing) Name? Status Signals in Open Standards Development"

* Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT and NBER, and Lynn Wu, MIT, "The Future of Prediction: How Google Searches Foreshadow Housing Prices and Sales"

* Alex Oettl, Georgia Institute of Technology...