National Bureau of Economic Research

Summer Institute 2009

Week 2 Master Agenda July 13 – 18

 

MONDAY, JULY 13

 

 

 

9:00 am

POL

DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER

 

 

DAVIDE CANTONI, Harvard University

 

 

SIMON JOHNSON, MIT and NBER

 

 

JAMES A. ROBINSON, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution

 

 

 

9:15 am

EFACR/CRIW

KAREN GOLDENBERG, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

 

JAY RYAN, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

 

Evolution and Change in the Consumer Expenditure Surveys: Adapting Methodologies to Meet Changing Needs

 

 

and

 

 

THESIA GARNER, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

 

WILLIAM PASSERO, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

 

Strengths and Weaknesses of the CE from a BLS Perspective

 

 

 

10:30 am

POL

STEFANO GAGLIARDUCCI, CEMFI

 

 

M. DANIELE PASERMAN, Boston University and NBER

 

 

Gender Interactions within Hierarchies:  Evidence from the Political Arena

 

 

 

10:45 am

EFACR/CRIW

PANEL DISCUSSION

 

 

JAMES POTERBA (Chair), MIT and NBER

 

 

BARRY BOSWORTH, Brookings Institution

 

 

CHRISTOPHER CARROLL, Johns Hopkins University and NBER

 

 

J. STEPHEN LANDEFELD, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

 

JONATHAN PARKER. Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

 

11:30 am

POL

BENJAMIN OLKEN, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Direct Democracy and Local Public Goods: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

 

 

 

 1:00 pm

EFRSW

ROBERT HALL, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

Wage Formation between Newly Hired Workers and Employers: Survey Evidence

 

 

(joint with Alan Krueger)

 

 

 

 

EFEL

DAVID K. BACKUS, New York University and NBER

 

 

BRYAN R. ROUTLEDGE, Carnegie Mellon University

 

 

STANLEY E. ZIN, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

 

 

The Cyclical Component of US Asset Returns

 

 

 

1:30 pm

EFACR/CRIW

ERICH BATTISTIN, University of Padova

 

 

MARIO PADULA, University of Venice

 

 

Survey Instruments and the Reports of Consumption Expenditures: Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Surveys

 

 

 

 

POL

SILVIA ARDAGNA, Harvard University

 

 

ANNAMARIA LUSARDI, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

Where Does Regulation Hurt? Evidence from New Businesses across Countries

 

 

 

1:50 pm

EFEL

JULIO ROTEMBERG, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Liquidity Needs in Economies with Interconnected Financial Obligations

 

 

 

 2:00 pm

EFRSW

LEENA RUDANKO, Boston University

 

 

Customer Capital

 

 

(joint with Francois Gourio)

 

 

 

2:30 pm

EFACR/CRIW

MICHAEL HURD, Rand Corporation and NBER

 

 

SUSANN ROHWEDDER, Rand Corporation

 

 

Methodological Innovations in Collecting Spending Data: The HRS Consumption and Activities Mail Survey

 

 

 

 

POL

ARINDRAJIT DUBE, UC, Berkeley

 

 

ETHAN KAPLAN, Stockholm University

 

 

SURESH NAIDU, Harvard Academy

 

 

Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information

 

 

 

2:55 pm

EFEL

VIRAL ACHARYA, New York University and NBER

 

 

DOUGLAS GALE, New York University

 

 

TANJU YORULMAZER, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

 

Rollover Risk and Market Freezes

 

 

 

 3:30 pm

EFRSW

IOANA MARINESCU, University of Chicago

 

 

Labor Market Shocks and Marriage Duration

 

 

 

3:45 pm

EFEL

ZHIGUO HE, Northwestern University

 

 

WEI XIONG, Princeton University and NBER

 

 

Dynamic Bank Runs

 

 

 

4:00 pm

EFACR/CRIW

BRUCE D. MEYER, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

JAMES X. SULLIVAN, University of Chicago

 

 

Five Decades of Consumption and Income Poverty

 

 

 

 4:30 pm

EFRSW

DALE MORTENSEN, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

Wage Dispersion in the Search and Matching Model with Intrafirm Bargaining

 

 

 

TUESDAY, JULY 14:

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

EFACR

JONATHAN PARKER, Northwestern and NBER

 

 

ANNETTE VISSING-JORGENSEN, Northwestern and NBER

 

 

NICHOLAS ZIEBARTH, Northwestern University

 

 

Inequality in Expenditure in the Twentieth Century

 

 

 

 

POL

FRANCESCO CASELLI, London School of Economics and NBER

 

 

GUY MICHAELS, London School of Economics

 

 

Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil

 

 

 

 

PRCR

STEVEN J. DAVIS, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland and NBER

 

 

RON JARMIN, Census Bureau

 

 

JOSH LERNER, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Private Equity, Jobs and Productivity

 

 

 

 

EFABG

RAQUEL FERNANDEZ, New York University and NBER

 

 

Women’s Rights: Development, Selfish Husbands, and Altruistic Fathers

 

 

 

10:15 am

EFACR

VINCENZO QUADRINI, University of Southern California

 

 

Health insurance and Entrepreneurship

 

 

 

 

EFABG

OMER MOAV, Hebrew University

 

 

ZVIKA NEEMAN, Tel-Aviv University

 

 

Conspicuous Consumption, Human Capital, and Poverty

 

 

 

10:30 am

POL

RAPHAËL FRANCK, Bar Ilan University

 

 

ILIA RAINER, George Mason University

 

 

Does the Leader’s Ethnicity Matter? Ethnic Favoritism, Education and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa

 

 

 

 

PRCR

ALWYN YOUNG, London School of Economics

 

 

Real Consumption Measures for the Poorer Regions of the World

 

 

and

 

 

SIMON JOHNSON, MIT and NBER

 

 

CHRIS PAPAGEORGIOU, International Monetary Fund

 

 

WILL LARSON, George Washington University

 

 

ARVIND SUBRAMANIAN, Johns Hopkins University

 

 

Is Newer Better?  The Penn World Table Revisions and the Cross-Country Growth Literature

 

 

 

11:30 am

EFACR

HAMISH LOW, Trinity College Cambridge

 

 

LUIGI PISTAFERRI, Stanford University

 

 

Disability Risk, Disability Insurance and Life Cycle Behavior

 

 

 

 

POL

ALBERTO BISIN, New York University and NBER

 

 

ELEONORA PATACCHINI, IZA

 

 

THIERRY VERDIER, Paris School of Economics

 

 

YVES ZENOU, Stockholm University

 

 

Bend It Like Beckham: Ethnic Identity and Integration

 

 

 

 

EFABG

KAIVAN MUNSHI, Brown University and NBER

 

 

The Birth of a Business Community: Historical Disadvantage and Contemporary Mobility in India

 

 

 

 1:00 pm

EFRSW

GIUSEPPE MOSCARINI, Yale University and NBER

 

 

Large Employers Are More Cyclically Sensitive

 

 

(joint with Fabein Postel-Vinay)

 

 

 

 

EFEL

JOHN BOYD, University of Minnesota

 

 

GIANNI DE NICOLÒ, International Monetary Fund

 

 

ELENA LOUKOIANOVA, International Monetary Fund

 

 

Banking Crises and Crises Dating: Theory and Evidence

 

 

 

1:30 pm

EFACR

JONATHAN SKINNER, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

VICTOR STANGO, UC, Davis

 

 

JONATHAN ZINMAN, Dartmouth College

 

 

Intertemporal Choice in the Trenches: The Nature and (In)stability of Consumer Decision Rules

 

 

 

 

POL

NANCY QIAN, Yale University and NBER

 

 

DAVID YANAGIZAWA, Stockholm University

 

 

The Power of Propaganda: The Effect of U.S. Government Bias on Cold War News Coverage of Human Rights

 

 

 

 

PRCR

DAVID BYRNE, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

Why are PC's Still Manufactured in the United States?

 

 

 

 

EFABG

JAMES FEYRER, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

Distance, Trade, and Income - The 1967 to 1975 Closing of the Suez Canal as a Natural Experiment

 

 

 

1:50 pm

EFEL

SEBNEM KALEMLI-OZCAN, University of Houston and NBER

 

 

ELIAS PAPAIOANNOU, Dartmouth College

 

 

JOSÉ LUIS PEYDRÓ, European Central Bank

 

 

Financial Integration and Business Cycle Synchronization

 

 

 

 2:00 pm

EFRSW

YONGSUNG CHANG, University of Rochester

 

 

Comparative Advantage and Unemployment

 

 

(joint with Mark Bils)

 

 

 

2:15 pm

EFACR

DEAN KARLAN, Yale University

 

 

MARGARET McCONNELL, California Institute of Technology

 

 

SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN, Harvard University

 

 

JONATHAN ZINMAN, Dartmouth College

 

 

The Salience of Consumption

 

 

 

2:30 pm

POL

PAULINE GROSJEAN, UC, Berkeley

 

 

The Role of Geography and History in Cultural Diffusion: A Gravity Approach

 

 

 

 

PRCR

WENDY LI, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

 

Global Sourcing in Innovation: Theory and Evidence from the IT Hardware Industry

 

 

 

2:45 pm

EFABG

STELIOS MICHALOPOULOS, Tufts University

 

 

ALIREZA NAGHAVI and GIOVANNI PRAROLO, University of Bologna

 

 

Geography and Trade in the Origins of Islam

 

 

 

2:55 pm

EFEL

HUI CHEN, MIT

 

 

JIANJUN MIAO, Boston University

 

 

NENG WANG, Columbia University

 

 

Entrepreneurial Finance and Non-diversifiable Risk

 

 

 

3:15 pm

EFACR

ATIF MIAN and AMIR SUFI, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

House Prices, Home Equity-Based Borrowing, and the U.S. Household Leverage Crisis

 

 

 

 3:30 pm

EFRSW

BJORN BRUEGEMANN, Yale University

 

 

IOURRI MANOVSKII, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

Fragility: A Quantitative Analysis of the US Health Insurance System

 

 

 

3:45 pm

EFEL

HARRY DeANGELO, University of Southern California

 

 

LINDA DeANGELO, University of Southern California

 

 

TONI M. WHITED, University of Wisconsin

 

 

Capital Structure Dynamics and Transitory Debt

 

 

 

4:00 pm

EFACR

SHANE JENSEN, Wharton School

 

 

STEPHEN SHORE, Johns Hopkins University

 

 

Changes in the Distribution of Income Volatility

 

 

 

 

PRCR

CHARLES HULTEN, University of Maryland and NBER

 

 

Decoding Microsoft:  Intangible Capital as a Source of Company Growth

 

 

 

 

EFABG

JOSEPH ZEIRA, Hebew University

 

 

Globalization and Divergence

 

 

 

 4:30 pm

EFRSW

ROBERT SHIMER, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

Human Capital and Unemployment

 

 

(Joint with Fernando Alvarez)

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 15:

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

EFACR

DMYTRO HRYSHKO, University of Alberta

 

 

RIP to HIP: The Data Reject Heterogeneous Labor Income Profiles

 

 

 

 

EFABG

ROLAND BENABOU, Princeton University and NBER

 

 

DAVIDE TICCHI, University of Urbino

 

 

ANDREA VINDIGNI, Princeton University

 

 

The Political Economy of Science, Religion and Growth

 

 

 

 

PRBB

VIRGILIU MIDRIGAN, New York University and NBER

 

 

DANIEL XU, New York University and NBER

 

 

Accounting for Plant-Level Misallocation

 

 

 

9:45 am

EFACR

JAMES FEIGENBAUM, Utah State University

 

 

GENG LI, Federal Reserve Bank

 

 

Semiparametric Characterizations of Income Dynamics

 

 

 

10:15 am

EFABG

DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER

 

 

JAMES ROBINSON, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

RAFAEL SANTOS VIALLAGRAN, Yale University

 

 

The Formation of the State: Evidence from Colombia

 

 

 

10:30 am

PRBB

SEBNEM KALEMLI-OZCAN, University of Houston and NBER

 

 

BRENT SORENSON, University of Houston

 

 

VADYM VOLOSOVYCH, Florida Atlantic University

 

 

Deep Financial Integration and Volatility

 

 

 

10:45 am

EFACR

SATYAJIT CHATTERJEE, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

 

 

FELICIA IONESCU, Colgate University

 

 

Insuring College Failure Risk

 

 

 

11:30 am

EFACR

ALEJANDRO BADEL, Georgetown University

 

 

Understanding Permanent Black-White Inequality: Neighborhood Human Capital Externalities and Residential Segregation

 

 

 

 

EFABG

BEN OLKEN, MIT and NBER

 

 

MONICA SINGHAL, Harvard University andNBER

 

 

Informal Taxation

 

 

 

 

PRBB

DOMENICO J. MARCHETTI, Bank of Italy

 

 

UGO ALBERTAZZI, Bank of Italy

 

 

Creative Destruction vs. Adverse Selection:  A Productivity-Based, Firm-Level Analysis of the Effects of the Credit Crunch

 

 

 

 1:00 pm

EFRSW

FABRIZIO PERRI, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

 

Unequal We Stand: Empirical Analysis of Inequality in the US 1967-2006

 

 

(joint with Gianluca Violante and Jonathon Heathcote)

 

 

 

 

EFEL

ROGER E.A. FARMER, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

 

 

Confidence, Crashes and Animal Spirits

 

 

 

1:30 pm

EFABG

THOMAS B. ANDERSEN, JEANET BENTZEN, CARL-JOHAN DALGAARD and PABLO SELAYA, University of Copenhagen

 

 

Lightning, IT Diffusion and Economic Growth across US States

 

 

 

 

PRBB

VASCO M. CARVALHO, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

 

 

Aggregate Fluctuations and the Network Structure of Intersectoral Trade

 

 

 

1:50 pm

EFEL

NARAYANA R. KOCHERLAKOTA, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

 

Bursting Bubbles: Consequences and Cures

 

 

 

 2:00 pm

EFRSW

ALAIN DELACROIX, University of Quebec

 

 

Joint Determination of Product and Labor Market Policies in a Model of Rent Creation and Division

 

 

(joint with Roberto Samaniego)

 

 

 

2:45 pm

EFABG

THOMAS GALL University of Bonn

 

 

PATRICK LEGROS, ECARES

 

 

ANDREW NEWMAN, Boston University

 

 

Mis-match, Re-match, and Investment

 

 

 

2:55 pm

EFEL

MARCO PAGANO, University of Naples Federico II

 

 

PAOLO VOLPIN, London Business School

 

 

Securitization, Transparency and Liquidity

 

 

 

3:00 pm

PRBB

RUEDIGER BACHMANN, University of Michigan

 

 

CHRISTIAN BAYER, Bonn University

 

 

Firm-Specific Productivity Risk over the Business Cycle: Facts and Aggregate Implications

 

 

 

 3:30 pm

EFRSW

LIMOR GOLAN, Carnegie Mellon University

 

 

Promotion, Turnover and Compensation in the Executive Market

 

 

(joint with George-Levi Gayle and Robert Miller)

 

 

 

3:45 pm

EFEL

MANUEL ADELINO, MIT

 

 

KRISTOPHER GERARDI, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

 

 

PAUL S. WILLEN, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and NBER

 

 

Renegotiating Home Mortgages: Evidence from the Subprime Mortgage Crisis

 

 

 

4:00 pm

EFABG

FRANCISCO BUERA, UC, Los Angeles

 

 

BENJAMIN MOLL, University of Chicago

 

 

Dynastic Capital Misallocation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 4:30 pm

EFRSW

PHILIP KIRCHER, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

IOURRI MANOVSKII, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

The U-Shapes of Occupational Mobility

 

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 16:

 

 

 

 

 

8:45 am

PRB

SUSANTO BASU, Boston College and NBER

 

 

LUIGI PASCALI, Boston College

 

 

FABIO SCHIANTARELLI, Boston College

 

 

LUIS SERVEN, The World Bank

 

 

The Solow Residual, Welfare, Technology and Reallocation Theory and Firm Level Evidence

 

 

 

9:00 am

EFACR

DEAN CORBAE, University of Texas Austin

 

 

ERWAN QUINTIN, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

 

 

Mortgage Innovation and the Foreclosure Boom

 

 

 

 

EFABG

OMER TUGRUL ACKGOZ, University of Rochester

 

 

BARIS KAYMAK, University of Montreal

 

 

Rising Skill Premium and the Deunionization in the United States

 

 

 

10:00 am

PRB

AMIL PETRIN, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

 

T. KIRK WHITE, US Department of Agriculture

 

 

JEROME P. REITER, Duke University

 

 

The Impact of Plant-Level Resource Reallocations and Technical Progress on U.S. Macroeconomic Growth

 

 

 

10:15 am

EFACR

MATTEO IACOVIELLO, Boston College

 

 

MARINA PAVAN, University College, Dublin

 

 

Housing and Debt over the Life Cycle and over the Business Cycle

 

 

 

 

EFABG

RETO FOELLMI, Bern University

 

 

TOBIAS WUERGLER and JOSEF ZWEIMÜLLER, University of Zurich

 

 

The Macroeconomics of Model T

 

 

 

11:15

PRB

ALAN COLLARD-WEXLER, New York University

 

 

Productivity Dispersion and Plant Selection in the Ready-Mix Concrete Industry

 

 

 

11:30 am

EFACR

MARCUS HAGEDORN, University of Zurich

 

 

IOURII MANOVSKI, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

Wages over the Business Cycle: Spot Markets?

 

 

 

 

EFABG

THOMAS PHILIPPON, New York University and NBER

 

 

ARIELL RESHEF, University of Virginia

 

 

Human Capital in the U.S. Financial Sector: 1909-2006

 

 

 

 1:00 pm

EFRSW

MARCELO VERACIERTO, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 

 

Establishment Dynamics, Vacancies and Unemployment:

 

 

A Neoclassical Synthesis

 

 

 

1:15 pm

PRB

NICHOLAS BLOOM, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

CAROL PROPPER, Imperial College

 

 

STEPHAN SEILER, London School of Economics

 

 

JOHN VAN REENEN, London School of Economics and NBER

 

 

Management Practices in Hospitals

 

 

 

 2:00 pm

EFRSW

RASMUS LENTZ, University of Wisconsin and NBER

 

 

Labor Market Friction, Firm Heterogeneity, and Aggregate Employment and Productivity

 

 

(joint with Dale Mortensen)

 

 

 

2:30 pm

PRB

BO COWGILL, Google

 

 

ERIC ZITZEWITZ, Dartmouth College

 

 

Stock Options and Incentives: Employee-Level Evidence from Google

 

 

 

 3:30 pm

EFRSW

EMANUELA CARDIA, University of Montreal

 

 

PAUL GOMME, Concordia University

 

 

The Household Revolution: Childcare, Housework, and Female Labor Force Participation

 

 

 

3:45 pm

PRB

LORRAINE IVANCIC and KEVIN J. FOX,  University of New South Wales

 

 

W. ERWIN DIEWERT, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

 

Scanner Data, Time Aggregation and the Construction of Price Indexes

 

 

 

 4:30 pm

EFRSW

GUEORGUI KAMBOUROV, University of Toronto

 

 

The Heterogeneity and Dynamics of Individual Labor Supply over the Life-Cycle: Facts and Theory

 

 

(joint with Andres Erosa and Luisa Fuster)

 

 

 

FRIDAY, JULY 17:

 

 

 

 

 

8:30 am

PRIT

BRETT DANAHER, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

SAMITA DHANASOBHON, Carnegie-Mellon University

 

 

MICHAEL D. SMITH, Carnegie-Mellon University

 

 

RAHUL TELANG, Carnegie-Mellon University

 

 

Converting Pirates without Cannibalizing Purchasers: The Impact of Digital Distribution on Physical Sales and Internet Piracy

 

 

 

 

PEPF

ENRICO PEROTTI, University of Amsterdam

 

 

ARMIN SCHWIENBACHER, University of Amsterdam

 

 

The Political Origin of Pension Funding

 

 

 

9:00 am

EFACR

THOMAS HINTERMAIER, Institue for Advanced Studies, Vienna

 

 

WINFRIED KOENIGER, Queen Mary College, U of London

 

 

Bankruptcy and Debt Portfolios

 

 

 

9:15 am

PEPF

NICOLA PERSICO, New York University and NBER

 

 

J.C. RODRIGUEZ-PUEBLITA, Ministry of Finance, Mexico

 

 

DAN SILVERMAN, University of Michigan and NBER

 

 

Factions and Political Competition

 

 

 

9:30 am

EFACR

ETHAN COHEN-COLE, University of Maryland, College Park

 

 

BURCU DUYGAN-BUMP and JUDIT MONTORIOL-GARRIGA,

 

 

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

 

 

Access to Credit After Bankruptcy:  Does It Pay To Be A Deadbeat?

 

 

 

9:55 am

PRIT

NICK BLOOM, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

LUIS GARICANO, London School of Economics

 

 

RAFFAELLA SADUN, London School of Economics

 

 

JOHN VAN REENEN, London School of Economics and NBER

 

 

The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on Firm Organization

 

 

 

10:15 am

EFACR

SONG HAN and GENG LI, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

Household Borrowing after Personal Bankruptcy

 

 

 

10:30 am

PEPF

MARCO BASSETTO, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and NBER

 

 

Public Investment and Budget Rules for State vs. Local Governments

 

 

 

11:15 am

PEPF

EMMANUEL FARHI, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

IVAN WERNING, MIT and NBER

 

 

The Political Economy of Non-Linear Capital Taxation

 

 

 

11:20 am

PRIT

AMALIA MILLER, University of Virginia

 

 

CATHERINE TUCKER, MIT

 

 

Can Healthcare IT Save Babies?

 

 

 

11:30 am

EFACR

JOCHEN MANKART, London School of Economics

 

 

GIACOMO RODANO, Banca d'Italia and LSE

 

 

Personal Bankruptcy Law, Debt Portfolios and Entrepreneurship

 

 

 

 1:00 pm

EFRSW

LAWRENCE UREN, University of Melbourne

 

 

Skill Requirements, Search Frictions and Wage Inequality

 

 

(joint with Gabor Virag)

 

 

 

 

PEPF

DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER

 

 

MIKHAIL GOLOSOV, MIT and NBER

 

 

ALEH TSYVINSKI, Yale University and NBER

 

 

Power Switches and Political Economy

 

 

 

 2:00 pm

EFRSW

DENNIS SNOWER, Kiel Institute

 

 

CHRISTIAN MERKL, Kiel Institute

 

 

An Incentive Theory of Matching

 

 

(joint with Alessio Brown)

 

 

 

 

IO/PRIT

CARL MELA and SONG YAO, Duke University

 

 

A Dynamic Model of Sponsored Search Advertising

 

 

 

  3:00 pm

EFRSW

ETIENNE WASMER, IZA

 

 

A Model of a Nonwalrasian Economy with Three Imperfect Markets: Some Economics of Multifrictional Economies

 

 

 

 

PEPF

RICARDO CABALLERO, MIT and NBER

 

 

PIERRE YARED, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

Future Rent-Seeking and Current Public Savings

 

 

 

3:25 pm

IO/PRIT

LIRAN EINAV, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

MARK JENKINS, Stanford University

 

 

JON LEVIN, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

The Impact of Information Technology on Consumer Lending (not available online)

 

 

 

3:45 pm

PEPF

MARINA AZZIMONTI, University of Texas, Austin

 

 

MARCO BATTAGLINI, Princeton University and NBER

 

 

STEPHEN COATE, Cornell University and NBER

 

 

On the Case for a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

 

 

 

4:50 pm

IO/PRIT

BABUR DE LOS SANTOS, Indiana University

 

 

ALI HORTACSU, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

MATTHIJS R WILDENBEEST, Indiana University

 

 

Testing Models of Consumer Search Using Data on Web Browsing and Purchasing Behavior

 

 

 

SATURDAY, JULY 18

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

SAV

ANNAMARIA LUSARDI, Dartmouth and NBER

 

 

OLIVIA MITCHELL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

How Ordinary Consumers Make Complex Economic Decisions: Financial Literacy and Retirement Readiness

 

 

 

9:15 AM

IO

SANJOG MISRA, University of Rochester

 

 

HARIKESH NAIR, Stanford University

 

 

The Dynamic Consequences of Incentive Schemes: Evidence from Salesforce Compensation

 

 

 

10:00 am

SAV

JOHN BESHEARS, Harvard University

 

 

JAMES CHOI, Yale University and NBER

 

 

BRIGITTE MADRIAN, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

KATHERINE MILKMAN, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

DAVID LAIBSON, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Using Social Information to Increase 401(k) Saving Rates

 

 

 

10:45

IO

JUAN ESTEBAN CARRANZA, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

 

ROBERT CLARK, HEC Montreal

 

 

JEAN-FRANCOIS HOUDE, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

 

Price Controls and Competition in Gasoline Markets

 

 

 

11:15 am

SAV

ULRIKE MALMENDIER, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

STEFAN NAGEL, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

Depression Babies:  Do Macroeconomic Experiences Affect Risk Taking?

 

 

 

1:00 pm

IO

ERIN MANSUR, Yale University

 

 

MATTHEW WHITE, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

Market Organization and Efficiency in Electricity Markets

 

 

 

 

SAV

PETER KUHN, UC, Santa Barbara

 

 

PETER KOOREMAN, Tilburg University

 

 

ARIE KAPTEYN, RAND Corporation

 

 

ADRIAAN SOETEVENT, University of Amsterdam

 

 

The Own and Social Effects of an Unexpected Income Shock: Evidence from the Dutch Postcode Lottery

 

 

 

2:15 pm

SAV

MILES KIMBALL, University of Michigan and NBER

 

 

TYLER SHUMWAY, University of Michigan

 

 

Fatalism, Locus of Control, and Retirement Saving

 

 

 

2:30 pm

IO

SIMON ANDERSON, University of Virginia

 

 

FEDERICO CILIBERTO, University of Virginia

 

 

REGIS RENAULT, Universite de Cergy-Pontoise

 

 

JURA LIAUKONYTE, University of Virginia

 

 

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