NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.	
	
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2005	
	
NBER Economic Fluctuations and Growth	
Macro Perspectives Workshop	
	
July 18 – 22, 2005	
	
Richard Rogerson, Robert Shimer and Randall Wright, Organizers	
	
Royal Sonesta Hotel	
5 Cambridge Parkway	
Cambridge, Massachusetts	
	
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM	

MONDAY, JULY 18:	
		
12:00 n	Lunch	
		
 1:00 pm	FERNANDO ALVAREZ, University of Chicago	
	MARCELO VERACIERTO, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago	
	Firing Taxes and Temporary Contracts in an Equilibrium Search Model	
		
 2:00 pm	STEVEN DAVIS, University of Chicago and NBER	
	R. JASON FABERMAN, Bureau of Labor Statistics	
	JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland and NBER	
	Worker Flows, Job Flows and Vacancy Postings: Market and Micro-Level Relationships	
		
 3:00 pm	Break	
 		
 3:15 pm	ROBERT SHIMER, University of Chicago and NBER	
	On the Job Search and Strategic Bargaining	
		
 4:15 pm	ROBERT HALL, Stanford University and NBER	
	The Amplification of Employment Fluctuations Through Self-Selection	
		
 5:15 pm	Adjourn	
		
TUESDAY, JULY 19:	
		
12:00 n	Lunch	
		
 1:00 pm	JAMES ALBRECHT and SUSAN VROMAN, Georgetown University	
	Modeling the Effects of Labor Market reforms in a Developing Economy	
		
 2:00 pm	GADI BARLEVY, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and NBER	
	Using Search Models to Estimate the Returns to Tenure	
		
3:00 pm	Break	
		
 3:15 pm	JOHN KNOWLES and ANDY POSTLEWAITE, University of Pennsylvania	
	The Connection Between Parental Attitudes and Childrens’ Saving	
		
 4:15 pm	RANDALL WRIGHT, University of Pennsylvania and NBER	
	The Market for Ideas	
		
 5:15 pm	Adjourn	
		
WEDNESSDAY, JULY 20:	
		
12:00  n	Lunch	
		
 1:00 pm	RASMUS LENTZ, Boston University	
	DALE MORTENSEN, Northwestern University	
	An Empirical Model of Growth Through Product Innovation	
		
 2:00 pm	STEFANIA ALBANESI, Duke University	
	CLAUDIA OLIVETTI, Boston University	
	Home Production, Market Production and the Gender Wage Gap:	
	Incentives and Expectations	
		
 3:00 pm	Break	
 		
 3:15 pm	ANDRES EROSA, University of Toronto	
	LUISA FUSTER, Universitat Pompeu Fabra	
	DIEGO RESTUCCIA, University of Toronto	
	A Quantitative Theory of the Gender Gap in Wages	
		
 4:15 pm	MARCUS HAGEDORN and IOURII MANOVSKII, University of Pennsylvania	
	The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies	
Revisited		
		
 5:15 pm 	Adjourn	
		
 6:00 PM	Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA	
		
THURSDAY, JULY 21:	
		
12:00 n	Lunch	
		
 1:00 pm	FRANCISCO GONZALEZ, University of British Columbia	
	SHOUYONG SHI, University of Toronto	
	Learning from Unemployment	
		
 2:00 pm	GUIDO MENZIO, Northwestern University	
	Search Frictions with Endogenous Information	
		
 3:00 pm	Break	
		
  3:15 pm	VERONICA GUERRIERI, MIT	
	Bilateral Asymmetric Information and Labor Market Frictions	
		
 4:15 pm	BJOERN BRUEGEMANN and GIUSEPPE MOSCARINI, Yale University	
	Asymmetric Information and Employment Fluctuations	
		
 5:15 pm	Adjourn	
		
FRIDAY, JULY 22:	
		
12:00 n	Lunch	
		
1:00 pm	ROGER FARMER, UC, Los Angeles	
	Shooting the Auctioneer	
		
 2:00 pm	GUILLAUME VANDENBROUCKE, University of Southern California	
	Long Run Trends in Hours	
		
 3:00 pm	Break	
 		
 3:15 pm	JOHN KENNES, University of Copenhagen	
	Lots of Heterogeneity in a Matching Model	
		
 4:15 pm	MANOLIS GALENIANOS, University of Pennsylvania	
	PHILIPP KIRCHER, University of Bonn	
	Directed Labor Search with Multiple Applications	
		
 5:15 pm	Adjourn	

		
		
5/23/05