【Speaker】Charles Hulten，University of Maryland, NBER, Senior Fellow at the Conference Board

【Topic】Intangible Capitaland Firm Valuation

【Time】9:30-11:00, 2008-7-1, Tuesday

【Venue】Room 336, Weilun Building, Tsinghua SEM

【Language】English

【Organizer】Research Center for Technological Innovation, Tsinghua University

【Background Information】

Charles R. Hulten , Senior Advisor, The Conference Board; Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Maryland

Professor Hulten received his undergraduate (1965) and Ph.D. (1973) degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. He taught at Johns Hopkins University in 1971-1978 and was a Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute in 1978-1985. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Chairman of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth.

His research interests include the areas of productivity analysis, economic growth and capital formation, and tax policy and the measurement of economic depreciation. Recent publications include: "Growth Accounting when Technical Change is Embodied in Capital," American Economic Review, 1992, "Productivity Dynamics in Manufacturing Plants", (with Martin N. Baily and David Campbell), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Microeconomics 1992, "Issues in the Measurement of Economic Depreciation", Economic Inquiry, 1996, "Quality Change in the CPI," Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 1997.