| Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis October 9-10, 1998 |
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| Friday, October 9 | |
| 2:10 p.m. | Welcoming remarks |
| 2:15 p.m. | John Laitner, University of Michigan “Structural Change and Economic Growth” |
| Discussant: Douglas Gollin, Williams College | |
| 3:15 p.m. | Coffee break |
| 3:30 p.m. | Gary Hansen, University of California-Los Angeles “Malthus to Solow” with Edward C. Prescott |
| Discussant: Gregory Clark, University of California-Davis | |
| 4:30 p.m. | Coffee break |
| 4:45 p.m. | Kenneth Pomeranz, University of California-Irvine “East Asia, Europe, and the Industrial Revolution” |
| Discussant: Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University | |
| 6:15 p.m. | Cocktail reception |
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Saturday, October 10 |
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| 9:00 a.m. | Continental breakfast |
| 9:30 a.m. | David Weil, Brown University “Population, Technology, and Growth: From the Malthusian Regime to the Demographic Transition” with Oded Galor |
| Discussant: Per Krusell, University of Rochester | |
| 10:30 a.m. | Nancy Stokey, University of Chicago “How Does Growth Get Started?” |
| 11:00 a.m. | Coffee break |
| 11:15 a.m. | Francesco Caselli, University of Chicago “How Regions Converge” with Wilbur John Coleman II |
| Discussant: Vincenzo Quadrini, Duke University | |
| 12:30 p.m. | Buffet luncheon |
| 1:30 p.m. | Jeremy Greenwood, University of Rochester “Measuring the Rate of Technological Progress in Structures” with Michael Gort and Peter Rupert |
| Discussant: Edward C. Prescott, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and University of Chicago | |
| 2:30 p.m. | Coffee break |
| 2:45 p.m. | Sandra Ospina, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico “Does Productivity Fall After the Adoption of New Technology?” with Mark Huggett |
| Discussant: Russell Cooper, Boston University | |
| 3:45 p.m. | Coffee break |
| 4:00 p.m. | James Schmitz, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis “Puzzling Movements in U.S. Iron-Ore Productivity” |
| Discussant: Peter Klenow, University of Chicago | |
| 5:00 p.m. | Closing remarks |
| 5:15 p.m. | Cocktail reception |