NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting

Andrew Abel and Ivan Werning, Organizers

 

July 12, 2008

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Ballroom A

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, JULY 11:

 

 

6:30 pm

Reception and Dinner – Riverfront Room

 

 

SATURDAY, JULY 12:

 

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

Andrew Atkeson, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

 

Varadarajan Chari, University of Minnesota and NBER 

 

Patrick Kehoe, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER

 

Sophisticated Monetary Policies

 

 

 

Critic:  Marco Bassetto, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and NBER

 

 

10:00 am

Coffee Break

 

 

10:30 am

George-Marios Angeletos, MIT and NBER

Alessandro Pavan, Northwestern University

 

Policy with Dispersed Information on Aggregate Shocks

 

 

 

Critic:  Harold Cole, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

11:30 am

Francisco Buera, Northwestern University and NBER

Alexander Monge-Naranjo, Northwestern University

 

Giorgio Primiceri, Northwestern University and NBER 

 

Learning the Wealth of Nations

 

 

 

Critic:  Daron Acemoglu, MIT and NBER

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch – Ballroom B

 

 

1:30 pm

Valerie Ramey, UC, San Diego and NBER

Identifying Government Spending Shocks:  It’s All in the Timing

 

 

 

Critic:  Jordi Gali, CREI and NBER

 

 

2:30 pm

Coffee Break

 

 

3:00 pm

Mark Aguiar, University of Rochester and NBER

Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Deconstructing Lifecycle Expenditure

 

 

 

Critic:  Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

 

4:00 pm

Robert Hall, Stanford University and NBER

Sources and Mechanisms of Cyclical Fluctuations in the Labor Market 

 

 

 

Critic:  Robert Shimer, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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