NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting
John Kennan and Robert Shimer, Organizers
February 4, 2005
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
101 Market Street
San Francisco, California
PROGRAM
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4:
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM GEORGE-MARIOS ANGELETOS and IVAN WERNING, MIT and NBER
Crises and Prices: Information Aggregation, Multiplicity and Volatility
Discussant: HAROLD COLE, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
10:00 AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM RASMUS LENTZ, Boston University
DALE MORTENSEN, Northwestern University
An Empirical Model of Growth Through Product Innovation
Discussant: ROBERT HALL, Stanford University and NBER
11:30 AM RODOLFO MANUELLI and ANANTH SESHADRI, University of Wisconsin
Human Capital and the Wealth of Nations
Discussant: ROBERT LUCAS, University of Chicago and NBER
12:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM ALWYN YOUNG, University of Chicago and NBER
The Tragedy of AIDS and the Welfare of Future African Generations
Discussant: PETER KLENOW, Stanford University and NBER
2:30 PM Coffee Break
3:00 PM POL ANTRAS, Harvard University and NBER
LUIS GARICANO, University of Chicago
ESTEBAN ROSSI-HANSBERG, Stanford University
Offshoring in a Knowledge Economy
Discussant: RAQUEL FERNANDEZ, New York University and NBER
4:00 PM BOYAN JOVANOVIC, New York University and NBER
The Product Cycle and Inequality
Discussant: HUGO HOPENHAYN, UC, Los Angeles
5:00 PM Adjourn
6:30 PM Group Dinner
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