PRELIMINARY PROGRAM: - Exchange-Rate Models Are Not As Bad As You Think - Aggregate Implications of Credit Market Imperfections - Cyclical Budgetary Policy and Economic Growth: What Do We Learn from OECD Panel Data - What Do We Know about the Effects of Fiscal Policy? - How Structural Are...

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM IAIN COCKBURN, Boston University and NBER Is the Pharmaceutical Industry in a Productivity Crisis? SCOTT STERN, Northwestern University and NBER When Ideas Are Not Free: The Impact of Patents on ScientificResearch PAULA STEPHAN, Georgia State University Wrapping it up in a...