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         Economic Statistics: New Needs for the 21st Century 
      A conference jointly sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Conference on Research on Income and Wealth, and the National Association for Business Economics July 11, 2002  | 
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| 8:00 | Continental Breakfast | ||||
| 8:30 | Welcome | ||||
| Jamie B. Stewart First Vice President Federal Reserve Bank of New York  | 
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| 9:00 - 10:30 | The Measurement, Valuation, and Reporting of Intangible Assets | ||||
| Baruch Lev 16 slides/410kb Philip Bardes Professor of Accounting and Finance Stern School of Business, New York University  | 
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      Discussants: Richard B. Berner Chief US Economist Morgan Stanley & Co Inc. Jonathan Low 14 slides/1017kb Senior Fellow Cap Gemini Ernst and Young U.S.  | 
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| 10:30 - 10:50 | Break | ||||
| 10:50 - 12:20 | Service Industries and the U.S. Productivity Acceleration: Measuring the Contribution of Information Technology and Multifactor Productivity | ||||
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| 12:30 -1:50 | Lunch & Keynote Address | ||||
| Martin N. Baily Senior Fellow Institute for International Economics  | 
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| 2:00 - 3:25 | International Capital Data - Needs, Projects, and Prospects | ||||
| Carol Carson (MS Word) 1 page/172kb Director, Statistics Department International Monetary Fund  | 
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      Discussants: William Griever Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Cheryl Rathbun Vice President, Global Country Risk Management Citigroup  | 
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| 3:25 - 3:40 | Break   
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| 3:40 - 5:00 | Pros and Cons of Hedonic Price Indexes | ||||
| Charles Hulten (MS Word) 1 page/145kb Professor of Economics University of Maryland Chairman, Conference on Research on Income and Wealth  | 
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| 5:00 | Conclude | ||||
