NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Macroeconomics and Individual Decision Making Conference

George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller, Organizers

November 3, 2001

1050 Massachusetts Ave

2nd Floor Conference Room

Cambridge, MA 02138

PROGRAM

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3:

8:15 AM	Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.

8:30 AM	Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.

8:30 AM	Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM	JOHN C. DRISCOLL, Brown University and NBER

STEINAR HOLDEN, University of Oslo

Fair Treatment and Inflation Persistence

Discussant:	VENKATARAMAN BHASKAR, University of Essex

10:00 AM	Break

10:15 AM	JONATHAN GARDNER and ANDREW OSWALD, Warwick University

Does Money Buy Happiness? A Longitudinal Study Using Data on Windfalls

Discussant:	ALBERTO F. ALESINA, Harvard University and NBER

11:15 AM	N. GREGORY MANKIW, Harvard University and NBER

RICARDO REIS, Harvard University

Sticky Information Versus Sticky Prices: A Proposal to Replace the

New-Keynesian Phillips Curve

Discussant:	XAVIER GABAIX, MIT

12:15 PM	Lunch

1:15 PM	LAURENCE M. BALL and ROBERT A. MOFFITT, John Hopkins University

and NBER

Productivity Growth and the Phillips Curve

Discussant:	PIERRE FORTIN, Université du Québec à Montreal

2:15 PM	Break	Over, Please!

Macroeconomics & Individual Decision Making Conference Program, Page 2:

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2001, Continued:

2:30 PM	DAVID LAIBSON, Harvard University and NBER

JEREMY B.TOBACMAN, Harvard University

(Joint with Andrea Repetto,Universidad de Chille)

Wealth Accumulation, Credit card Borrowing and Consumption-Income Comovement

Discussant:	ROBERT B. BARSKY, University of Michigan and NBER

3:30 PM	TRUMAN BEWLEY, Yale University

An Interview Study of Pricing

4:30 PM	Adjourn

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