National Bureau of Economic Research

Summer Institute 2003

Master Agenda

MONDAY, JULY 14
9:00 AM		IASE	FERNANDO BRONER, University of Maryland GUIDO LORENZONI, Princeton University SERGIO SCHMUKLER, The World Bank Why Do Emerging Markets Borrow Short Term?
9:00 AM		DAE	BEN CHABOT, University of Michigan and NBER CHRISTOPHER KURZ, University of Michigan That’s Where the Money Was: Home Bias and English Investments Abroad
10:00 AM		IASE	GASTON GELOS, International Monetary Fund SHANG-JIN WEI, International Monetary Fund and NBER Transparency and International Investor Behavior
10:00 AM		DAE	LANCE DAVIS, California Institute of Technology and NBER LARRY NEAL, University of Illinois and NBER EUGENE WHITE, Rutgers University and NBER The Highest Price Ever: The Great NYSE Seat Sale, 1928-1929
11:00 AM		IASE	MICHAEL KREMER, Harvard University and NBER SEEMA JAYACHANDRAN, Harvard University Odious Debt
11:00 AM		DAE	RAJEEV DEHEJIA, Columbia University and NBER ADRIANA LLERAS-MUNEY, Princeton University and NBER Why Does Financial Development Matter? The United States from 1900 to 1940
1:00 PM		ME	LAURENCE BALL, Johns Hopkins University and NBER N. GREGORY MANKIW, Harvard University and NBER RICARDO REIS, Harvard University Monetary Policy in Inattentive Economies
1:30 PM		IASE	MARCIO GARCIA, Stanford University ALEXANDRE LOWENKRON, PUC-Rio Cousin Risks: The Extent and the Causes of Positive Correlation between Country and Currency Risks
1:30 PM		DAE	JILL DUPREE, College of the Holy Cross Financial Failure? The Real Returns to the Blackstone Canal
2:15 PM		ME	DANIEL LEVY, Bar-Ilan University ANDREW T. YOUNG, Emory University The Real Thing: Nominal Price Rigidity of the Nickel Coke, 1886-1959
2:20 PM		IASE	JUAN CARLOS ECHEVERRY, Universidad de los Andes ROBERTO STEINER, International Monetary Fund LEOPOLDO FERGUSSON, Universidad de los Andes Determinants and Consequences of Foreign Indebtedness In Colombian Firms
2:30 PM		DAE	JEREMY ATACK, Vanderbilt University and NBER FRED BATEMAN, University of Georgia ROBERT MARGO, Vanderbilt University and NBER Capital Deepening in American Manufacturing, 1850-1880
3:20 PM		IASE	FREDERICO STURZENEGGER, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella Default Episodes in the 90's: Factbook, Toolkit and Preliminary Lesson
4:10 PM		IASE	LAURA ALFARO, Harvard University FABIO KANCZUK, University of São Paolo Sovereign Debt with Adverse Selection: A Quantitative Approach
TUESDAY JULY 15
9:00 AM		IFM	JON FAUST, JOHN ROGERS, WANG SHING-YI and JONATHAN WRIGHT, Federal Reserve Board The High-Frequency Response of Exchange Rates and Interest Rates to Macroeconomic Announcements:
9:00 AM		DAE	WERNER TROESKEN, University of Pittsburgh and NBER Lead Water Pipes and Infant Mortality in Turn-of-the-Century Massachusetts
9:00 AM		EFWW	XIAOHONG CHEN, New York University SYDNEY C. LUDVIGSON, New York University and NBER Land of Addicts? An Empirical Investigation of Habit-Based Asset Pricing Models
10:00 AM		DAE	MICHAEL HAINES, Colgate University and NBER MYRON GUTTMANN, University of Michigan Fertility of the Hispanic Population in the United States in Historical Perspective: Evidence from the 1910 Census
10:15 AM		IFM	YIN- WONG CHEUNG, UC, Santa Cruz MENZIE D. CHINN, UC, Santa Cruz and NBER ANTONIO GARCIA PASCUAL, International Monetary Fund Empirical Exchange Rate Models of the Nineties: Are Any Fit to Survive?
10:15 AM		EFWW	PETER CHRISTOFFERSEN, McGill University FRANCIS DIEBOLD, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Financial Asset Returns, Market Timing, and Volatility Dynamics
11:00 AM		DAE	SUSAN B. CARTER and ROGER RANSOM, UC, Riverside RICHARD SUTCH, UC, Riverside and NBER Family Matters: The Life-Cycle Transition and the Fertility Decline in Antebellum America
11:30 AM		IFM	GUILLERMO CALVO, University of Maryland and NBER MICHAEL KUMHOF, Stanford University Trade Openness And Exchange Rate Misalignments
11:30 AM		EFWW	ALEXI ONATSKI, Columbia University NOAH WILLIAMS, Princeton University and NBER Modeling Model Uncertainty
1:00 PM		ME	STEPHEN R. BOND, Oxford University JASON G. CUMMINS, Federal Reserve Board Uncertainty and Company Investment: An Empirical Investigation Using Data on Analysts’ Profits Forecasts
1:30 PM		DAE	LEE ALSTON, University of Colorado and NBER JOSEPH FERRIE, Northwestern University and NBER Climbing the Agricultural Ladder: Horatio Alger and Having the Right Parents
2:15 PM		ME	JEFFREY C. FUHRER, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston GLENN D. RUDEBUSCH, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Estimating the Euler Equation for Output
2:30 PM		DAE	WILLIAM COLLINS and ROBERT MARGO, Vanderbilt University and NBER The Economic Effects of the 1960's Riots: Some Preliminary Findings
WEDNESDAY, JULY 16
9:00 AM		IFM	PHILLIP LANE, Trinity College, Dublin GIAN-MARIA MILESI-FERETTI , International Monetary Fund International Financial Integration
9:00 AM		EFWW	EDWARD LEAMER, UC, Los Angeles and NBER SIMON POTTER, Federal Reserve Bank of New York A Nonlinear Model of the Business Cycle
9:00 AM		DAE	DOUGLAS IRWIN, Dartmouth University and NBER JOSEPH DAVIS, Vanguard Investments Trade Disruptions and Early American Industrialization
10:00 AM		DAE	JAMES SCHMITZ, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Nineteenth Century U. S. Economic Growth: How Important was the Transportation Revolution?
10:15 AM		IFM	KRISTIN FORBES, MIT and NBER One Cost of Chilean Capital Controls: Increased Financial Constraints for Smaller Traded Firms
10:15 AM		EFWW	CHANG-JIN KIM, Korea University JEREMY PIGER, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis RICHARD STARTZ, University of Washington Estimation of Markov Regime-Switching Regression Models with Endogenous Switching
11:00 AM		DAE	DANIEL BERKOWITZ, University of Pittsburgh KAREN CLAY, Carnegie Mellon University Initial Conditions, Institutional Dynamics, and Performance: Evidence from the American States
11:30 AM		IFM	LAURA ALFARO, Harvard University SEBNEM KALEMLI- OZCAN and VADYM VOLOSOVYCH, University of Houston Why Doesn’t Capital Flow from Rich Countries to Poor Countries? An Empirical Investigation
11:30 AM		EFWW	SOPHOCLES MAVROEIDIS, University of Amsterdam Identification and Mis-specification Issues in Forward Looking Models
1:OO PM		ME	BEN S. BERNANKE, Federal Reserve Board KENNETH N. KUTTNER, Federal Reserve Bank of New York What Explains the Stock Market’s Reaction to Federal Reserve Policy?
1:30 PM		DAE	PRICE FISHBACK, University of Arizona and NBER REBECCA HOLMES, University of Arizona The Impact of State Labor Regulations on Manufacturing Input Demands during the Progressive Era
2:15 PM		ME	REFET S. GURKAYNAK, BRIAN SACK and ERIC SWANSON, Federal Reserve Board The Excess Sensitivity of Long-Term Interest Rates: Evidence and Implications for Macroeconomic Models
2:30 PM		DAE	CLAYNE POPE, Brigham Young University and NBER Measuring the Distribution of Well-Being
THURSDAY, JULY 17
9:00 AM		IFM	ANDREW HALDANE, ADRIAN PENALVER and VICTORIA SAPORTA, Bank of England HYUN SONG SHIN, London of School of Economics Analytics of Sovereign Debt Restructuring
9:00 AM		EFWW	PETER HANSEN, Brown University Regression Analysis with Many Specifications: A Bootstrap Method for Robust Inference
9:00 AM		DAE	SHAWN COLE, MIT Capitalism and Freedom:Slavery and Manumission in Louisiana, 1770-1820
10:00 AM		AP	M. FATIH GUVENEN, University of Rochester A Parsimonious Macroeconomic Model for Asset Pricing: Habit Formation or Cross-Sectional Heterogeneity
10:00 AM		DAE	LISA COOK, Stanford University Responses in Technical Change to Uncertainty: Evidence from Patenting Activity Among African Americans; 1821-1919
10:15 AM		IFM	JOSEPH JOYCE, Wellesley College Promises Made, Promises Broken: A Model of IMF Program Implementation
10:15 AM		EFWW	MICHAEL JANSSON, UC, Berkeley MARCELO MOREIRA, Harvard University Optimal Inference in Regression Models with Nearly Integrated Regressors
11:00 AM		AP	LU ZHANG and RALITSA PETKOVA, University of Rochester Is Value Riskier than Growth?
11:00 AM		DAE	KEN SOKOLOFF, MAGGIE LEVENSTEIN and NAOMI LAMOREAUX, UC, Los Angeles and NBER The Organization and Financing of Invention in Cleveland, 1890-1920
11:15 AM		IFM	GALINA HALE, Yale University Bonds or Loans? The Effect of Macroeconomic Fundamentals
11:30 AM		EFWW	DAVID N. DEJONG, ROMAN LISENFELD and JEAN-FRANCOIS RICHARD, University of Pittsburgh A Structural Break in U.S. GDP?
1:00 PM		ME	Discussion with Ben S. Bernanke, Federal Reserve Board
1:00 PM		AP	JONATHAN PARKER, Princeton University and NBER CHRISTIAN JULLIARD, Princeton University Consumption Risk and Cross-Sectional Returns
2:00 PM		AP	JONATHAN LEWELLEN, MIT and NBER STEFAN NAGEL, London Business School The Conditional CAPM Does Not Explain Asset-Pricing Anomalies
2:15 PM		ME	VALERY A. RAMEY, UC, San Diego and NBER DANIEL J. VINE, UC, San Diego Tracking the Source of the Decline in GDP Volatility: An Analysis of the Automobile Industry
3:15 PM		AP	BLAKE LEBARON, Brandeis University and NBER Calibrating an Agent-Based Financial Market
FRIDAY, JULY 18
9:00 AM		EFWW	JAN J.J. GROEN, Bank of England Exchange Rate Predictability and Monetary Fundamentals in a Small Multi-Country Panel
9:00 AM		AP	ROBERT NOVY-MARX, UC, Berkeley An Equilibrium Model of Investment Under Uncertainty
9:00 AM		EFJK	RODOLFO E. MANUELLI, University of Wisconsin and NBER ANANTH SESHADRI, University of Wisconsin Frictionless Technology Diffusion: The Case of Tractors
9:30 AM		IFM	ANNA PAVLOVA, MIT ROBERTO RIGOBON, MIT and NBER Asset Prices and Exchange Rates
10:15 AM		EFWW	NELSON MARK, Ohio State University and NBER MASAO OGAKI, Ohio State University DONGGYU SUL, University of Auckland Dynamic Seemingly Unrelated Cointegrating Regression
10:15 AM		AP	HANNO LUSTIG, University of Chicago STIJN VAN NIEUWERBURGH, Stanford University Housing Collateral, Consumption Insurance and Risk Premia
10:15 AM		EFJK	DIEGO RESTUCCIA, University of Toronto RICHARD ROGERSON, Arizona State University and NBER Policy Distortions and Aggregate Productivity with Heterogeneous Plants
11:00 AM		IFM	MARTIN EVANS, Georgetown University and NBER RICHARD LYONS, UC, Berkeley and NBER A New Micro Model of Exchange Rate Dynamics
11:15 AM		AP	MASSIMO MASSA, INSEAD ANDREI SIMONOV, Stockholm School of Economics Hedging, Stock Market Performance and Portfolio Choice
11:15 AM		EFJK	DIEGO COMIN, New York University BART HOBIJN, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Cross-Country Technology Adoption: Making the Theories Face the Facts
11:30 AM		EFWW	BEN S. BERNANKE, Federal Reserve Board JEAN BOIVIN, Columbia University and NBER PIOTR ELIASZ, Princeton University Measuring the Effects of Monetary Policy: A Factor-Augmented Vector Autoregressive (FAVAR) Approach
1:00 PM		ME	MAURICE OBSTFELD and ALAN J. AUERBACH, UC, Berkeley and NBER The Case for Open-Market Purchases in a Liquidity Trap
1:15 PM		AP	STEVE KAPLAN, University of Chicago and NBER ANTOINETTE SCHOAR, MIT Private Equity Performance: Returns, Persistence and Capital Flows
1:15 PM		EFJK	PIERRE-OLIVIER GOURINCHAS, Princeton University and NBER OLIVIER JEANNE, International Monetary Fund The Elusive Gains from International Financial Integration
2:15 PM		ME	GAUTI EGGERTSSON, International Monetary Fund MICHAEL WOODFORD, Princeton University and NBER The Zero Bound on Interest Rates and Optimal Monetary Policy
2:15 PM		AP	JOHN CAMPBELL, Harvard University and NBER MOTOHIRO YOGO, Harvard University Efficient Tests of Stock Return Predictability
2:15 PM		EFJK	ESTEBAN ROSSI-HANSBERG and MARK WRIGHT, Stanford University Urban Structure and Growth
3:30 PM		EFJK	FRANK R. LICHTENBERG, Columbia University and NBER The Impact of New Drug Launches on Longevity: Evidence from Longitudinal, Disease-Level Data from 52 Countries, 1982-2001
SATURDAY, JULY 19
9:00 AM		EFG	LAURA VELDKAMP, INSEAD Media Frenzies in Markets for Financial Information
9:00 AM		MM	ANDREW ELLUL, CRAIG W. HOLDEN, and ROBERT JENNINGS, Indiana University PANKAJ JAIN, University of Memphis Determinants of Order Choice on the New York Stock Exchange
10:00 AM		MM	HENDRIK BESSEMBINDER, University of Utah Selection Biases and Cross-Market Trading Cost Comparisons
10:30 AM		EFG	MARKUS BRUNNERMEIER, Princeton University JONATHAN PARKER, Princeton University and NBER Optimal Expectations
11:15 AM		MM	CHARLES M. JONES, Columbia University MARC L. LIPSON, University of Georgia Why NYSE Retail Order Get Better (Yes, Better) Executions
11:30 AM		EFG	FATIH GUVENEN, University of Rochester A Parsimonious Macroeconomic Model for Asset Pricing: Habit Formation or Cross-Sectional Heterogeneity?
1:30 PM		EFG	CHANG-TAI HSIEH, Princeton University and NBER PETER KLENOW, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER Relative Prices and Relative Prosperity
1:30 PM		MM	ANANTH MADHAVAN, Investment Technology Group, Inc. LESLIE M. MARX, Duke University VENKATESH PANCHAPAGESAN, Nasdaq Stock Market Relationship Markets and the Decision to Go Public
2:30 PM		MM	CHARLES CAO, OLIVER HANSCH and XIAOXIN WANG, Pennsylvania State University The Informational Content of an Open Limit Order Book
3:00 PM		EFG	ROBERT HALL, Stanford University and NBER Wage Determination and Employment Fluctuations
3:45 PM		MM	HANS G. HEIDLE, University of Notre Dame XI LI, University of Miami Is there Evidence of Front-Running Before Analyst Recommendations? An Analysis of the Quoting Behavior of Nasdaq Market Makers
4:00 PM		EFG	OLIVIER BLANCHARD, MIT and NBER THOMAS PHILIPPON, MIT The Decline of Rents, and the Rise and Fall of European Unemployment
MONDAY, JULY 21
9:00 AM		EFCE	BOYAN JOVANOVIC, New York University and NBER Asymmetric Cycles
9:00 AM		EFBDG	FRANCESCO CASELLI, Harvard University and NBER NICOLA GENNAIOLI, Harvard University Dynastic Management
9:00 AM		PRIPE	MARGARET KYLE, Carnegie-Mellon University Pharmaceutical Price Controls and Entry Strategies
10:00 AM		PRIPE	PIERRE AZOULAY, Columbia University Medical Progress and Health Care Financing: Research in Academic Medical Centers Following the 1997 Medicare Cuts
10:15 AM		EFCE	GAREY RAMEY, UC, San Diego Financial Intermediation in a Restructuring Economy
10:15 AM		EFBDG	LUIS GARICANO, University of Chicago ESTEBAN ROSSI-HANSBERG, Stanford Univeristy Organization and Inequality in a Knowledge Economy
11:15 AM		PRIPE	RICHARD NELSON, Columbia University The Market Economy and the Scientific Commons
11:30 AM		EFCE	CHRISTIAN HELLWIG, UC, Los Angeles Public Announcements, Adjustment Delays and the Business Cycle
11:30 AM		EFBDG	LEX BORGHANS and BAS TER WEEL, University of Maastricht The Diffusion of Computers and the Distrubution of Wages
1:00 PM		EFRW	ROBERT HALL, Stanford University and NBER Wage Determination and Employment Fluctuations
1:00 PM		EFACR	SUMIT AGARWAL and CHUNLIN LIU, FleetBoston Financial DAVID JOHNSON, Bureau of Labor Statistics JONATHAN PARKER, Princeton University and NBER NICHOLAS SOULELES, University of Pennsylvania and NBER The Response of Consumer Spending and Debt to Tax Rebates: Evidence from the CEX and the Household Credit Accounts
1:00 PM		EFEL	ALBERTO ALESINA, Harvard University and NBER SILVIA ARDAGNA, Wellesley College GIUSEPPE NICOLETTI, OECD FABIO SCHIANTARELLI, Boston College Regulation and Investment
1:15 PM		PRIPE	LISA COOK, Stanford University Responses to Changes in Uncertainty: Evidence from Patenting Activity among African Americans
1:55 PM		EFEL	SIMON GILCHRIST, Boston University and NBER MARC RYSMAN, Boston University Trade Liberalization and Lumpy Investment: Evidence from Chilean Plan-Level Data
2:00 PM		EFRW	CHRIS PISSARIDES, London School of Economics Productivity Growth and Employment: Theory and Panel Estimates
2:15 PM		EFACR	DAVID DOMEIJ and MAGNUS JOHANNESSON, Stockholm School of Economics Consumption and Health
2:30 PM		PRIPE	MICHAEL WHINSTON, Northwestern University and NBER Antitrust Policy in Innovative Industries
3:05 PM		EFEL	FRANCISCO GOMES, London Business School ALEXANDER MICHAELIDIS, London School of Economics VALERY POLKOVNICHENKO, University of Minnesota Life Cycle Portfolio Choice with Taxable and Tax Deferred Accounts
3:15 PM		EFRW	RASMUS LENTZ, Boston University DALE MORTENSEN, Northwestern University Firm Productivity, Wages, Worker Flows and Size
3:15 PM		EFACR	CLARE KELLY, University of Warwick LANOT GAUTHIER, Keele University Consumption Patterns Over Pay Periods
3:45 PM		PRIPE	Panel Discussion: Where is the “New Economy” Today?
4:15 PM		EFRW	ROBERT SHIMER, University of Chicago and NBER IVAN WERNING, MIT and NBER Does UI Insure the Unemployed?
4:15 PM		EFEL	HUGO HOPENHAYN, University of Rochester Risk Taking by Entrepreneurs
TUESDAY, JULY 22
9:00 AM		EFCE	DIEGO COMIN, New York University MARK GERTLER, New York University and NBER Medium Term Business Cycles
9:00 AM		EFBDG	ODED GALOR, Brown University ANDREW MOUNTFORD, University of London Trade, Demography and the Great Divergence
9:00 AM		PRL	YI QIAN, Harvard University Do Additional National Patent Laws Stimulate Domestic Innovation in a Global Patenting Environment? LEE BRANSTETTER and RAY FISMAN, Columbia University and NBER C. FRITZ FOLEY, University of Michigan Do Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Increase International Technology Transfer? Empirical Evidence from U.S. Firm-Level Panel Data
10:15 AM		EFCE	FABIO NATALUCCI, ANDREW LEVIN and EGON ZAKRAJSEK, Federal Reserve Board Evaluating the Non-Linearity of the Financial Accelerator
10:15 AM		EFBDG	JOHN MCLAREN, University of Virginia and NBER ANDREW NEWMAN, University College London Globalization and Insecurity
11:00 AM		PRL	MARK A. LEMLEY, UC, Berkeley Ex Ante versus Ex Post Justifications for Intellectual Property LAWRENCE SUNG, University of Maryland Two Out of Three Ain't Bad?: Dissents and Concurrences in Patent Law Decisions of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
11:30 AM		EFCE	GAUTI EGGERTSSON, International Monetary Fund MIKE WOODFORD, Princeton University and NBER The Zero Bound on Interest Rates and Optimal Monetary Policy
11:30 AM		EFBDG	MICHAEL KREMER, Harvard University and NBER ERIC MASKIN, Princeton University Globalization and Inequality
1:00 PM		EFRW	BOYAN JOVANOVIC, New York Univeristy and NBER The Pre-Producers
1:00 PM		EFACR	JOSE-VICTOR RIOS-RULL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER JAY HONG, University of Pennsylvania Life Insurance and the Value of Wives
1:00 PM		EFEL	JOAO GOMES and AMIR YARON, University of Pennsylvania LU ZHANG, University of Rochester Investment and Returns with Financing Constraints: Evidence using Firm Data
1:55 PM		EFEL	ANDREA CAGGESE, Pompeu Fabra University Financing Constraints, Irreversibility and Investment Dynamics
2:00 PM		EFRW	JAN EECKHOUT, University of Pennsylvania Is Bargaining over Prices Efficient
2:15 PM		EFACR	PATRICIA APPS, University of Sydney RAY REES, Australian National University Life Cycle Time Allocation and Saving in an Imperfect Capital Market
3:05 PM		EFEL	STEPHEN BOND, Oxford University Conditional Cash Flow Sensitivities and Financing Constraints
3:15 PM		EFRW	JIM ALBRECHT, PIETER GAUTIER and SUSAN VROMAN,Georgetown University Equilibrium Directed Search
3:15 PM		EFACR	NICHOLA FUCHS and MATTHIAS SCHUENDELN, Yale University Precautionary Savings and Self-Selection-Evedence from the German Reunion ‘Experiment’
4:15 PM		EFRW	GEORGE ALESSANDRIA, Ohio State University ALAIN DELACROIX, Purdue University Welfare Losses From Labor Market Policies in an Open Economy and the Adoption of Policies
4:15 PM		EL	REFET GURKAYNAK, Federal Reserve System Financial Intermediaries as Firms and the Business Cycle
WEDNESDAY, JULY 23
9:00 AM		EFCE	JESUS VILLAVERDE, University of Pennsylvania ALEH TSYVINSKI, University of Minnesota Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Business Cycle Model without Commitment
9:00 AM		EFBDG	MATTHIAS DOEPKE, UC, Los Angeles FABRIZIO ZILIBOTTI, University College London Voting with Your Children: A Positive Analysis of Child Labor Laws
9:00 AM		PRIO	MANUEL AMADOR, MIT AUGUSTIN LANDIER, University of Chicago Entrepreneurial Pressure and Innovation
10:00 AM		PRIO	PAUL GOMPERS and JOSH LERNER, Harvard University and NBER DAVID SCHARFSTEIN, MIT and NBER Entrepreneurial Spawning: Public Corporation and the Genesis of New Ventures, 1986-1999
10:15 AM		EFCE	STEFANIA ALBANESI, Duke University CHRIS SLEET, University of Iowa Dynamic Optimal Taxasion with Private Infomation
10:15 AM		EFBDG	RAQUEL FERNANDEZ, New York University and NBER ALESSANDRA FOGLI, New York University CLAUDIA. OLIVETTI, Boston University Marrying your Mom: Preference Transmission and Women’s Labor and Education Decisions: Part II
11:15 AM		PRIO	JANET BERCOVITZ, Duke University MARYANN FELDMAN, Johns Hopkins University Technology Transfer and the Academic Department: Who Participates and Why?
11:30 AM		EFCE	S. BORAGAN ARUOBA, University of Pennsylvania CHRISTOPHER WALLER, University of Kentucky RANDY WRIGHT, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Search, Money and Capital
11:30 AM		EFBDG	GILLES SAINT-PAUL, University of Toulouse On Market Forces and Human Evolution
1:00 PM		EFRW	KENNETH BURDETT, University of Pennsylvania RYOICHI IMAI, Kyushu University RANDALL WRIGHT, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Unstable Relationships
1:00 PM		EFACR	MICHAEL PRIES, University of Maryland RICHARD ROGERSON, Arizona State University and NBER Search Durations and Labor Market Participation
1:00 PM		EFEL	JOSEPH PEEK, University of Kentucky ERIC ROSENGREN, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Unnatural Selection: Perverse Incentives and the Misallocation of Credit in Japan
1:00 PM		PRIO	PASCAL COURTY, London Business School GERALD MARSCHKE, SUNY Albany Dynamics of Performance Measurement Systems
1:55 PM		EFEL	CHRISTA BOUWMAN, ANJAN THAKOR, and TONI WHITED, University of Michigan Disagreement, Animal Sprits and Investment
2:00 PM		EFRW	MICHELLE ALEXOPOULIS, University of Toronto Wealth, Reservation Wages and Labor Market Transitions in the US: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation
2:00 PM		PRIO	SHARON NOVAK, Northwestern University SCOTT STERN, Northwestern University and NBER Complementarity among Vertical Integration Decisions: Evidence from Automobile Product Development
2:15 PM		EFACR	FILIPPO ALTISSIMO, European Central Bank PAOLO ZAFFARONI, Banca d'Italia Towards Understanding the Relationship Between Aggregate Fluctuations and Individual Heterogeneity
3:03 PM		EFEL	ROBERT CHIRINKO, Emory University HUNTLEY SCHALLER, Carleton University Glamour vs. Value: The Real Story
3:15 PM		EFRW	LINDA WONG, University of Chicago An Empirical Study of Darwin’s Theory of Mate Choice
3:15 PM		EFACR	JONATHAN HEATHCOTE, Georgetown University KJETIL STORESLETTEN, University of Oslo GIOVANNI VIOLANTE, New York University The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the US
4:15 PM		EFRW	MICHAEL PRIES, University of Maryland RICHARD ROGERSON, Arizona State University and NBER Search Durations and Labor Market Participation
4:15 PM		EFEL	ROBERT HALL, Stanford University and NBER Dynamics of Corporate Earnings
THURSDAY, JULY 24
9:00 AM		EFCE	JORDI GALI, CREI and NBER D. LÓPEZ-SALIDO and JAVIER VALLÉS, Bank of Spain Rule-of-Thumb Consumers and the Design of Interest Rate Rules
9:00 AM		EFBDG	DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER PHILIPPE AGHION, Harvard University FABRIZIO ZILIBOTTI, University College London Appropriate Labor Market Institutions
9:00 AM		PRBB	LEONARD NAKAMURA, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia The Rise in Gross Private Investment in Intangible Assets Since 1978
10:15 AM		EFCE	CHRIS EDMOND, UC, Los Angeles LEE OHANIAN, UC, Los Angeles and NBER To Be Announced
10:15 AM		EFBDG	PHILIPPE AGHION, Harvard University PETER HOWITT, Brown University DAVID MAYER-FOULKES, The Role of Credit Constraints in (Non) Convergence: A Schumpeterian Approach
10:15 AM		PRBB	JAMES A. KAHN and ROBERT RICH, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Do Business Cycles Really Have Permanent Effects? Using Growth Theory to Distinguish Trends from Cycles
11:30 AM		EFCE	MICHELE ALEXOPOULOS, University of Toronto To Be Announced
11:30 AM		EFBDG	FRANÇOIS BOURGUIGNON, DELTA FRANCISCO H. G. FERREIRA, The World Bank PHILLIPPE G. LEITE, PUC-Rio Why are Income Distributions Different?: A Comparison of Brazil and the United States
11:30 AM		PRBB	LOREN BRANDT, University of Toronto SUSAN CHUN ZHU, Michigan State University Technology Adoption and Absorption: The Case of China
1:00 PM		EFRW	LARRY JONES, University of Minnesota and NBER RODOLFO MANUELLI, University of Wisconsin and NBER ELLEN MCGRATTAN, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER Why are Married Women Working So Much?
1:00 PM		EFACR	M. FATIH GUVENEN, University of Rochester A Parsimonious Macroeconomic Model for Asset Pricing: Habit Formation or Cross-Sectional Heterogeneity?
1:15 PM		IO	KEN HENDRICKS, University of Texas ROB PORTER, Northwestern University and NBER GUOFU TAN, University of British Columbia Bidding Rings and the Winner=s Curse: The Case of Federal Offshore Oil and Gas Lease Auctions
1:30 PM		PRBB	DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER JOSHUA LINN, MIT Market Size in Innovation: Theory and Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry
2:00 PM		EFRW	GUEORGUI KAMBOUROV, University of Toronto IOURRI MANOVSKI, University of Pennsylvania Occupational Mobility and Wage Inequality
2:15 PM		EFACR	BRIAN PETERSON, Indiana University Aggregate Uncertainty, Individual Uncertainty, and the Housing Market
2:45 PM		IO	FIONA SCOTT MORTON, Yale University and NBER FLORIAN ZETTELMEYER, UC, Berkeley and NBER JORGE SILVA-RISSO, UC, Los Angeles Inventory Fluctuations and Price Discrimination: The Determinants of Price Variation in Car Retailing
2:45 PM		PRBB	FRANCESCO CASELLI, Harvard University and NBER DANIEL WILSON, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Importing Technology
3:15 PM		EFRW	GADI BARLEVY, Northwestern University and NBER Estimating Search Models with On-the-Job Search
3:15 PM		EFACR	BURCU DUYGAN, The World Bank Analyzing Durable Goods Purchases and Idiosyncratic Income Uncertainty
4:00 PM		PRBB	CHANG-TAI HSIEH, Princeton University and NBER PETER J. KLENOW, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER Relative Prices and Relative Prosperity
4:15 PM		EFRW	JOHANNES HORNER, Northwestern University RACHEL NGAI, London School of Economics CLAUDIA OLIVETTI, Boston University Public Enterprises and Labor Market Performance
4:15 PM		IO	JULIE MORTIMER, Harvard University Price Discrimination and Copyright Law: Evidence from the Introduction of DVDs
FRIDAY, JULY 25
9:00 AM		EFCE	SUSANTO BASU and MILES KIMBALL, University of Michigan and NBER Investment Planning Costs and the Effects of Fiscal and Monetary Policy
9:00 AM		EFBDG	WILLIAM EASTERLY, New York Univeristy The Racial Tipping Point in American Neighborhoods: Unstable Equilibrium or Urban Legend?
9:00 AM		IO	AMY FINKELSTEIN, Harvard University and NBER KATHLEEN MCGARRY, UC, Los Angeles and NBER Re-examining the Test for Asymmetric Information in Insurance Markets: New Evidence from Long-Term Care Insurance
9:00 AM		PRpre	DALE JORGENSON, Harvard University STEVE LANDEFELD, Bureau of Economic Analysis Blueprint for An Expanded and Integrated Set of Account for the United States KAREN WILSON, Statistics Canada An International Perspective on Expanded and Integrated Accounts (UK, Canada and Australian experience) ANN LAWSON, BRIAN MOYER, SUMIYE OKUBO and MARK PLANTING, Bureau of Economic Analysis Integrating and Accelerating BEA’s Inter-Industry Accounts BRIAN MOYER, MARSHALL REINSDORF and ROBERT YUSKAVAGE, Bureau of Economic Analysis Aggregation Issues in Integrating and Accelerating BEA’s accounts ERIC BARTELSMAN, Free University J. J. BEAULIEU, Federal Reserve Board Integrating Inter-Industry Transactions and Gross Product Originating Estimates MICHAEL HARPER, Bureau of Labor Statistics BARBARA FRAUMENI and ROBERT YUSKAVAGE , Bureau of Economic Analysis Integrating BEA Industry and Wealth Accounts with BLS Productivity Measures PHILIP SMITH, Statistics Canada International Experience With Integrated Productivity Accounts MICHAEL PALUMBO, Federal Reserve System BRENT MOULTON, Bureau of Economic Analysis AL TEPLIN, CSE Analytics Integrating the Federal Reserve Board’s Flow of Funds and National Balance Sheets with BEA’s NIPA’s, Wealth Accounts, and Balance of Payments Accounts
10:15 AM		EFCE	THOMAS PHILIPPON, New York University Corporate Governance over the Business Cycle
10:15 AM		EFBDG	JEFFREY LIEBMAN, Harvard University and NBER JEFFREY KLING, Princeton University and NBER LAWRENCE KATZ, Harvard University and NBER What Randomized Experiments Can Teach Us About Social Interactions
10:30 AM		IO	THOMAS GILLIGAN, University of Southern California Lemons and Leases in the Used Business Aircraft Market
11:30 AM		EFCE	R. ANTON BRAUN, University of Tokyo ETSURO SHIOJI, Yokohama National University Aggregate Risk in Japanese Equity Markets
11:30 AM		EFBDG	PATRICK BAYER, Yale University ROBERT MCMILLAN, University of Toronto KIM RUEBEN, Public Policy Institute of California An Equilibrium Model of Sorting in an Urban Housing Market: A Study of the Causes and Consequences of Residential Segregation
1:00 PM		EFRW	ROBERT SHIMER, University of Chicago and NBER Assignment and Unemployment
1:00 PM		EFACR	VINCENZO QUADRINI, New York University and NBER Uninsurable Investment Risks
1:00 PM		IO	LUIS CABRAL, New York University ALI HORTACSU, University of Chicago and NBER The Dynamics of Seller Reputation: Theory and Evidence from eBay
1:00 PM		PRpre	KATHERINE ABRAHAM, University of Maryland and NBER Overview of Non-Market Accounting WILLIAM NORDHAUS, Yale University and NBER Knotty Issues on Non-Market Accounting FRANK GOLLOP, Boston College Extending the Accounts to Capture Air and Water Quality CHARLES HULTEN, University of Maryland and NBER Issues in Accounting for Capital RANDY BECKER, Bureau of the Census JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland and NBER RON JARMIN, SHAWN KLIMEK and DANIEL WILSON, Bureau of the Census Micro and Macro Date Integration: The Case of Capital ART RIDGEWAY, Statistics Canada Canada’s Experience With Micro-Macro Integration of Financial Accounts
2:00 PM		EFRW	GIUSEPPE MOSCARINI, Yale University Job-to-Job Quits and Corporate Culture
2:15 PM		EFACR	WENDY EDELBERG, University of Chicago Risk-Based Pricing of Interest Rates in Consumer Loan Markets
2:30 PM		IO	SEVERIN BORENSTEIN, UC, Berkeley and NBER JAMES BUSHNELL, UC, Energy Institute CHRISTOPHER KNITTEL, UC, Davis CATHERINE WOLFRAM, UC, Berkeley and NBER Trading Inefficiencies in California=s Electricity Markets
3:15 PM		EFRW	RYOICHI IMAI, Kyushu University Endogenous Education and Job Creation
3:15 PM		EFACR	EVA CARCELES-POVEDA, SUNY Stony Brook Capital Ownership Under Market Incompleteness: Does It Matter?
4:00 PM		IO	MARTIN PESENDORFER, London School of Economics and NBER PHILIPP SCHMIDT-DENGLER, Yale University Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Games
4:15 PM		EFRW	SHIGERU FUJITA, UC, San Diego The Beveridge Curve, Job Creation and the Propagation of Shocks
MONDAY, JULY 28
8:30 AM		LS	KEVIN LANG, Boston University and NBER Education and Discrimination in the Labor Market
8:30 AM		EE	OLIVER DESCHENES, UC, Santa Barbara MICHAEL GREENSTONE, University of Chicago and NBER The Economic Impacts of Climate Change: Evidence from Agricultural Output and Random Fluctuations in Weather
9:00 AM		PRCR	ANA AIZCORBE, STEPHEN OLINER and DANIEL SICHEL, Federal Reserve Board Semiconductor Price Puzzles
9:45 AM		LS	ROLAND FRYER, Harvard University and NBER STEVEN LEVITT, University of Chicago and NBER Is Black Culture a Cause or a Consequence of Racial Inequality: An Analysis of Names
10:00 AM		EE	JONATHAN T. KOLSTAD, Stanford University FRANK A. WOLAK, Stanford University and NBER Using Environmental Emissions Permit Prices to Raise Electricity Prices: Evidence from the California Electricity Market
10:15 AM		PRCR	CAROL CORRADO, WENDY DUNN, and MARIA OTOO, Federal Reserve Board Incentives and Prices for Motor Vehicles: What Has Been Happening in Recent Years?
11:00 AM		LS	MARKUS MOBIUS, Harvard University and NBER TANYA ROSENBLAT, Wesleyan College Why Beauty Matters
11:30 AM		EE	JANET CURRIE, UC, Los Angeles and NBER MATTHEW NEIDEL, University of Chicago Air Pollution and Infant Health: What Can We Learn From California’s Recent Experience?
11:30 AM		PRCR	MANUEL TRAJTENBERG, Tel Aviv University and NBER Defense R&D in the Anti-terrorist Era
1:00 PM		LS	AIMEE CHIN, University of Houston Long-Run Labor Market Effects of Japanese-American Internment During World War II on Working-Age Male Internees
1:00 PM		A	JOHN RUST, University of Maryland and NBER MOSHE BUCHINSKY, UC, Los Angeles and NBER HUGO BENITEZ-SILVA, SUNY-Stony Brook How Large are the Classification Errors in the Social Security Disability Award Process? RICHARD DISNEY, CARL EMMERSON and MATTHEW WAKEFIELD, Institute for Fiscal Studies Ill-health and Retirement in Britain: A Panel Data-Based Analysis STAN PANIS, RAND Corporation Annuities and Retirement Satisfaction
1:30 PM		EE	Research sketches
1:30 PM		PRCR	TEAGUE RUDER and TED TO, Bureau of Labor Statistics Hedonic Regressions with Supply and Demand Controls: An Example Using Stereo Receiver Scanner Data
2:15 PM		LS	JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER Religious Market Structure, Religious Participation and Outcomes: Is Religion Good for You?
2:45 PM		PRCR	KARI MANNINEN, BEA and University of Helsinski Controlling for Quality Change in Digital Cameras Price Index
3:00 PM		EE	DIETRICH EARNHART, University of Kansas LUBOMIR LIZAL, CERGE-EI Effects of Ownership and Financial Status on Corporate Environmental Performance
3:15 PM		LS	ELI BERMAN, Rice University and NBER ARA STEPANYAN, Rice University Fertility and Education in Radical Islamic Sects: Evidence from Asia and Africa
3:30 PM		EE	EDWARD CALTHROP, Jesus College, Oxford BRUNO DE BORGER, University of Antwerp STEF PROOST, Catholic University Leuven Tax Reform for Dirty Intermediate Goods: Theory and an Application to the Taxation of Freight Transport
4:00 PM		EE	TRUDY ANN CAMERON, University of Oregon J.R. DESHAZO, UC, Los Angeles Moving Beyond the Value of a Statistical Life: A New Theoretical and Empirical Approach
4:00 PM		PRCR	JAISON ABEL, Analysis Group ERNST R. BERNDT, MIT and NBER ALAN G. WHITE, Analysis Group Price Indexes for PC Software
TUESDAY, JULY 29
8:30 AM		LS	ERZO LUTTMER, Harvard University and NBER Do People Really Care How Much Their Neighbors Earn? The Effect of Relative Earnings on Well-Being
8:30 AM		EE	A. LANS BOVENBERG, Tilburg University and CentER LAWRENCE H. GOULDER, Stanford University and NBER DEREK J. GURNEY, Stanford University Efficiency Costs of Meeting Industry-Distributional Constraints under Environmental Permits and Taxes
8:30 AM		PERE	YONGHENG DENG and STUART GABRIEL, University of Southern California On the Pricing and Performance of FHA-Insured Mortgages: Should Investors Prefer Underserved and High Credit Risk Borrowers?
9:00 AM		A	ERIK HURST, University of Chicago Grasshoppers, Ants and Pre-Retirement Wealth: A Test of Permanent Income Consumers MIKE HURD, RAND Corporation and NBER SUSANN ROHWEDDER, RAND Corporation The Retirement-Consumption Puzzle: Anticipated and Actual Declines in Spending at Retirement TOM DAVIDOFF, U.C. Berkeley Maintenance and the Home Equity of the Elderly
9:00 AM		PRCR	ROBERT MCGUCKIN and SEAN DOUGHERTY, Conference Board ROBERT C. INKLAAR, University of Groningen BART VAN ARK, Conference Board Comparing the Cost of R&D: PPPs and Relative Cost Levels of R&D for Manufacturing Industries for Six OECD Countries
9:30 AM		EE	MARTIN WEITZMAN, Harvard University Discounting a Future Whose Technology is Unknown
9:45 AM		LS	JONATHAN GURYAN, University of Chicago and NBER MELISSA S. KEARNEY, Wellesley College and NBER State Lotteries, Decisions under Uncertainty, and Addiction
10:00 AM		PERE	EDWARD GLAESER, Harvard University and NBER JOSEPH GYOURKO, University of Pennsylvania Why Is New York City So Expensive?
10:15 AM		PRCR	MAURY GITTLEMAN, Bureau of Labor Statistics THIJS TEN RAA, Tilbug University EDWARD N. WOLFF, New York University and NBER The Vintage Effect in TFP Growth: An Analysis of the Age Structure of Capital
11:00 AM		LS	JOHN BOUND, University of Michigan and NBER SARAH TURNER, University of Virginia and NBER Cohort Crowding: How Resources Affect Collegiate Attainment
11:00 AM		CH	PATRICIA ANDERSON, Dartmouth College and NBER KRISTEN BUTCHER, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Reading, Writing and Raisinettes: Are School Finances Contributing to Children's Obesity?
11:00 AM		EE	ANDREW PLANTINGA, Oregon State University KLAAS VAN 'T VELD, University of Michigan Carbon Sequestration or Abatement? The Effect Of Rising Carbon Prices On The Optimal Portfolio Of Greenhouse-Gas Mitigation Strategies
11:00 AM		PERE	STUART ROSENTHAL, Syracuse University WILLIAM STRANGE, University of Toronto The Urban Rat Race: Thick Markets, Signaling, and Hours Worked in Big Cities
11:30 AM		PRCR	FRANK C. WYKOFF, Pomona College Obsolescence in Economic Depreciation from the Point of View of the Revaluation Term
1:00 PM		LS	JAMES HECKMAN, University of Chicago and NBER LANCE LOCHNER, University of Rochester and NBER Distinguishing Between On-the-Job Training and Learning-by-Doing
1:00 PM		CH	RAJEEV DEHEJIA, Columbia University and NBER ADRIANA LLERAS-MUNEY, Princeton University and NBER The Timing of Births: Is the Quality of Infants Counter-Cyclical?
1:00 PM		EE	MATTHEW KAHN, Tufts University Domestic Pollution Havens: Evidence from Cancer Deaths in Border Counties
1:00 PM		PERE	MICHAEL GREENSTONE, University of Chicago and NBER ENRICO MORETTI, UC, Los Angeles and NBER Bidding for Industrial Plants: Does Winning a ‘Million Dollar Plant’ Increase Welfare?
1:15 PM		A	JAMES POTERBA, MIT and NBER JOSHUA RAUH, MIT STEVEN VENTI, Dartmouth College and NBER DAVID WISE, Harvard University and NBER Utility Evaluation of Risk in Retirement Saving Accounts DORA COSTA, MIT and NBER JOANNA LAHEY, MIT Becoming Oldest-Old: Evidence from Historical U.S. Data DARIUS LAKDAWALLA, RAND Corporation and NBER JAY BHATTACHARYA, Stanford University and NBER Does Medicare Benefit the Poor? New Answers to an Old Question
1:30 PM		PRCR	DENNIS FIXLER, MARSHALL REINSDORF, and GEORGE SMITH, Bureau of Economic Analysis Unpriced Services of Financial Intermediaries in the National Income and Product Accounts: An Alternative Approach
2:00 PM		CH	PAUL GERTLER, UC Berkeley and NBER The Presence and Presents of Parents: Do Parents Matter for More Than Their Money?
2:00 PM		EE	CAROL MCAUSLAND, UC, Santa Barbara Trade, Politics, and the Environment: Tailpipe vs. Smokestack
2:00 PM		PERE	TOM DAVIDOFF, UC ,Berkeley Maintenance and the Home Equity of the Elderly
2:15 PM		LS	DAVID BLANCHFLOWER, Dartmouth College and NBER ALEX BRYSON, Policy Studies Institute What Effect Do Unions Have on Wages Now and Would ‘What Do Unions Do’ Be Surprised?
2:45 PM		PRCR	CINDY ZOGHI, and SABRINA PABILONIA, Bureau of Labor Statistics Which Workers Gain from Computer Use?
3:15 PM		LS	THOMAS LEMIEUX, University of British Columbia and NBER Composition Effects, Wage Measurement, and the Growth in Within-Group Wage Inequality
3:30 PM		CH	MICHAEL KREMER, Harvard University and NBER EDWARD MIGUEL, UC, Berkeley and NBER Health Behavior and the Design of Public Health Programs: Evidence from Randomized Evaluations
3:30 PM		EE	ARIK LEVINSON, Georgetown University and NBER M. SCOTT TAYLOR, University of Wisconsin and NBER Trade and the Environment: Unmasking the Pollution Havens Hypothesis
3:30 PM		PERE	PATRICK BAYER, Yale University FERNANDO FERREIRA, UC, Berkeley ROBERT MCMILLAN, University of Toronto A Unified Framework for Measuring the Preferences for School Quality
4:00 PM		PRCR	LUCIA FOSTER, Census Bureau JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland and NBER CHAD SYVERSON, University of Chicago and NBER Reallocation, Firm Turnover and Efficiency: Selection on Productivity or Profitability?
WEDNESDAY, JULY 30
9:00 AM		LS	GEORGE BORJAS, Harvard University and NBER The Labor Demand Curve is Downward Sloping: Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market
9:00 AM		CH	TARA WATSON, Harvard University Public Health Investments and the Infant Mortality Gap: Evidence from Federal Sanitation Interventions on U.S. Indian Reservations
9:00 AM		PESS	ERIK HURST, University of Chicago and NBER PAUL WILLEN, University of Chicago Social Security and Unsecured Debt
10:00 AM		CH	CRISTIAN POP-ELECHES, Harvard University The Impact of an Abortion Ban on Socio-Economic Outcomes of Children: Evidence from Romania
10:00 AM		PESS	JEFF DOMINITZ, Carnegie Mellon University CHARLES MANSKI, Northwestern University and NBER JORDAN HEINZ, Northwestern University Will Social Security Be There For You?: How Americans Perceive Their Benefits
10:15 AM		LS	MADELINE ZAVODNY, Occidental College PIA ORRENIUS, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Does Immigration Affect Wages? A Look at Occupation-Level Evidence
11:30 AM		LS	MICHAEL GREENSTONE, University of Chicago and NBER ENRICO MORETTI, UC, Los Angeles and NBER Bidding for Industrial Plants: Does Winning a ‘Million Dollar Plant’ Increase Welfare
11:30 AM		CH	DAVID FIGLIO, University of Florida and NBER CECELIA ROUSE, Princeton University and NBER Did Florida’s A+ Plan for Education Improve Low-Performing Schools?
11:30 AM		PESS	B. DOUGLAS BERNHEIM and ANTONIO RANGEL, Stanford University and NBER Emotions, Cognition, and Savings: Theory and Policy
1:30 PM		LS/CH	PHILIP OREOPOLOUS, University of Toronto Do Dropouts Drop Out Too Soon? Evidence from Changes in School-Leaving Laws
1:30 PM		PESS	MIKHAIL GOLOSOV and ALEH TSYVINSKI, University of Minnesota Designing Optimal Disability Insurance
2:30 PM		LS/CH	JEFFREY KLING, Princeton University and NBER JEFFREY LIEBMAN, Harvard University and NBER The Effect of High Poverty Neighborhoods on Child and Youth Human Capital Accumulation
3:00 PM		PESS	JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER JEFFREY KUBIK, Syracuse University Health Insurance Coverage and the Disability Insurance Application Decision
4:00 PM		LS/CH	PATRICK BAYER, Yale University Building Criminal Capital Behind Bars: Social Learning in Juvenile Corrections
4:00 PM		PESS	Roundtable Discussion Issues Facing the Social Security Advisory Board 2003 Technical Panel
THURSDAY, JULY 31
9:00 AM		LS	GREG DUNCAN, Northwestern University JOHANNE BOISJOLY, University of Quebec DAN LEVY, Mathematica Policy Research MICHAEL KREMER, Harvard University and NBER JACQUE ECCLES, University of Michigan Empathy or Antipathy? The Consequences of Racially and Socially Diverse Peers on Attitudes and Behaviors
9:00 AM		PET	JEFFREY LIEBMAN and RICHARD ZECKHAUSER, Harvard University and NBER Schmeduling
9:00 AM		HE	JONATHAN KLICK, George Mason University SARA MARKOWITZ, Rutgers University at Newark and NBER Are Mental Health Parity Laws Effective? Evidence from Suicide
9:00 AM		PRHA	RICHARD G. FRANK, Harvard University and NBER ERNST R. BERNDT, MIT and NBER ALISA BUSCH, Harvard University ANTHONY LEHMAN, University of Maryland Price Indexes for the Ongoing Treatment of Schizophrenia
10:00 AM		LS	ERIC GOULD, VICTOR LAVY, and DANIELE PASERMAN, Hebrew University The Effect of Early School Environment on Young Adults' Educational Outcomes: A Natural Experiment Using Ethiopian Immigration to Israel in the Early 1990s
10:05 AM		PRHA	JASON BARRO and ROBERT HUCKMAN, Harvard University and NBER The July Effect: Labor Turnover and Productivity in Teaching Hospitals
10:15 AM		HE	JEFFREY KLING, Princeton University and NBER JEFFREY LIEBMAN, Harvard University and NBER LARRY KATZ, Harvard University and NBER LISA SANBONMATSU, Harvard University Is Living in a High Poverty Neighborhood Bad for Your Health?
10:30 AM		PET	AUSTAN GOOLSBEE, University of Chicago and NBER JOEL SLEMROD, University of Michigan and NBER The Rise of Tax Competition from the Internet: The Case of Cigarette Taxes
11:10 AM		PRHA	MICHAEL KREMER, Harvard University and NBER CHRISTOPHER M. SNYDER, George Washington University Why Are Drugs More Profitable than Vaccines?
11:30 AM		LS	BRIDGET LONG, Harvard University and NBER ERIC BETTINGER, Case Western Reserve University and NBER The Effects of Adjunct Professors on Student Outcomes
11:30 AM		HE	WILLIAM H. DOW, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and NBER KRISTY GONZALEZ, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill LUIS ROSERO-BIXBY, University of Costa Rica Aggregation and Insurance-Mortality Estimation
12:45 PM		PPL	ARNGRIM HUNNES, JARLE MØEN, and KJELL GUNNAR SALVANES, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration Ports of Entry: The Norwegian Case
1:00 PM		PRHA	TOMAS PHILIPSON, Chicago, Food and Drug Administration and NBER Reflections from an Economist at the Food and Drug Administration
1:30 PM		LS	THOMAS KANE, UC, Los Angeles and NBER STEPHANIE RIEGG, UC, Los Angeles DOUGLAS STAIGER, Dartmouth College and NBER Changing School Assignments and Housing Values
1:30 PM		PET	GLENN ELLISON, MIT and NBER SARA FISHER ELLISON, MIT Tax Sensitivity and Home State Preferences in Internet Purchasing
1:30 PM		HE	EDWARD MIGUEL, UC, Berkeley and NBER MICHAEL KREMER, Harvard University and NBER Health Behavior and the Design of Public Health Programs: Evidence from Randomized Evaluations
1:30 PM		PRHA	SEAN NICHOLSON, University of Pennsylvania and NBER ANDREW EPSTEIN, University of Pennsylvania Physician Learning and Best Practice Adoption: An Application to Cesarian Sections
2:30 PM		LS	JANET CURRIE, UC, Los Angeles and NBER MATTHEW NEIDELL, University of Chicago Getting Inside the Black Box of Head Start Quality: What Matters and What Doesn't
2:30 PM		PPL	KEVIN STIROH, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Playing for Keeps: Pay and Performance in the NBA
2:35 PM		PRHA	CHUNLING LU, Harvard University RICHARD FRANK, Harvard University and NBER TOM MCGUIRE, Harvard University The Responsiveness of Mental Health Care Utilization to Price Change Under Managed Care Plans
2:45 PM		PET	MIHIR DESAI, Harvard University and NBER ALEXANDER DYCK, Harvard University LUIGI ZINGALES, University of Chicago and NBER Corporate Governance and Taxation
2:45 PM		HE	SHERRY GLIED, Columbia University and NBER ADRIANA LLERAS-MUNEY, Princeton University and NBER Health Inequality, Education and Medical Innovation
3:15 PM		PPL	MARTHA STINSON, Bureau of the Census Estimating the Relationship between Employer-Provided Health Insurance, Worker Mobility, and Wages
3:40 PM		PRHA	TOM BUCHMUELLER, UC, Irvine and NBER MEREILLE JACOBSON, UC Irvine How far to the Doctor? The Effect of Hospital Closures on Access to Care
4:00 PM		LS	JOSHUA ANGRIST, MIT and NBER JONATHAN GURYAN, University of Chicago and NBER Does Teacher Testing Raise Teacher Quality? Evidence from State Certification Requirements
4:00 PM		HE	CHRISTOPHER J. RUHM, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and NBER Healthy Living in Hard Times
4:15 PM		PPL	TOR ERIKSSON, Aarhus School of Business AXEL WERWATZ, Humboldt University, Berlin The Prevalence of Internal Labour Markets B New Evidence from Panel Data
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1
8:30 AM		LS	BRUCE FALLICK and CHARLES FLEISCHMAN, Federal Reserve Board JAMES REBITZER, Case Western Reserve University and NBER Inter-Firm Mobility, Knowledge Spillovers, and Innovation in High Tech Clusters
9:00 AM		HC	JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER EBONYA WASHINGTON, MIT Subsidies to Employee Health Insurance Premiums and the Health Insurance Market
9:30 AM		LS	EDWARD LAZEAR, Stanford University and NBER Firm-Specific Human Capital: A Skill-Weights Approach
10:05 AM		HC	STEPHEN T. PARENTE, ROGER FELDMAN and JON B. CHRISTIANSON, University of Minnesota The Effect of Defined Contribution Plans on Health Insurance Choice and Medical Care Use
10:15 AM		LS	GEORGE BAKER and NANCY BEAULIEU, Harvard University and NBER Wage Policies and Investments in Firm-Specific Human Capital
11:10 AM		HC	RUSTY TCHERNIS, Harvard University JOSEPH P. NEWHOUSE, Harvard University and NBER SHARON-LISE T. NORMAND, PETER GACCIONE, and JULIANA PAKES, Harvard University Health and Health Insurance: Analysis of Plan Switching Behavior
11:30 AM		LS	SIMON WOODCOCK, Bureau of the Census Agent Heterogeneity and Learning: An Application to Labor Markets
1:00 PM		LE	KATHRYN SPIER, Northwestern University and NBER BRUCE HAY, Harvard University Manufacturer Liability for Product Injuries to Nonconsumers
1:15 PM		LS	JOHN ABOWD, Cornell University and NBER PAUL LENGERMANN, Federal Reserve Board KEVIN McKINNEY, Bureau of the Census The Measurement of Human Capital in the US Economy
2:00 PM		LS	JED DEVARO, Cornell University Internal Promotion Competitions in Firms
2:00 PM		LE	ANDREW DAUGHETY and JENNIFER REINGANUM, Vanderbilt University Markets, Torts, and Social Inefficiency
2:45 PM		LE	A. MITCHELL POLINSKY, Stanford University and NBER DANIEL RUBINFELD, UC, Berkeley Remedies for Price Overcharges: Is Cash Necessarily Better than Coupons or Discounts?
3:15 PM		LS	MICHAEL GIBBS and KATHRYN IERULLI, University of Chicago EVA MEYERSSON MILGROM, Stanford University Title T.B.D.
3:45 PM		LE	RONALD GILSON, Stanford University ALAN SCHWARTZ, Yale University Understanding MACs and MAEs
4:30 PM		LE	EZRA FRIEDMAN, Yale University ABRAHAM WICKELGREN, Federal Trade Commission Chilling, Settlement, and the Accuracy of the Legal System
SATURDAY, AUGUST 2
8:45 AM		LE	DANIEL KLERMAN, University of Southern California PAUL MAHONEY, University of Virginia The Value of Judicial Independence
9:45 AM		LE	JONI HERSCH, Harvard University Jury Demands and Trials
10:30 AM		LE	FELIX OBERHOLZER-GEE, University of Pennsylvania MIKI MITSUNARI, Fuji Research Institute Corporation Information Regulation: Do Victims of Externalities Pay Attention?
11:30 AM		LE	DANIEL LEVY, Bar-Ilan University BENJAMIN ZELIGER, Cornell University PAUL RUBIN, Emory University SOURAV RAY, Concordia University MARK BERGEN, University of Chicago On the Inefficiency of Item Pricing Laws
MONDAY, AUGUST 4
9:00 AM	CF			SARA MOELLER, Southern Methodist University FREDERIK SCHLINGEMANN, University of Pittsburgh RENE STULZ, Ohio State University and NBER Wealth Destruction on a Massive Scale: A Study of Acquiring-firm Returns in the Merger Wave of the 1990s
9:30 AM	ITI			JAMES TYBOUT, Pennsylvania State University and NBER ERKAN ERDEM, Pennsylvania State University Trade Policy and Patterns of Industrial Evolution: A Dynamic Structural Model
9:50 AM	CF			LUCIAN ARYE BEBCHUK, Harvard University and NBER JOHN COATES IV and GUHAN SUBRAMANIAN, Harvard University The Effect of Takeover Defenses
11:00 AM	ITI			J. PETER NEARY, University College Dublin Cross-Border Mergers as Instruments of Comparative Advantage
11:10 AM	CF			ANDREA EISFELDT and ADRIANO RAMPINI, Northwestern University Capital Reallocation and Liquidity
1:00 PM	ITI			ROBERT FEENSTRA, UC, Davis and NBER GORDON HANSON, UC, San Diego and NBER Ownership and Control in Outsourcing to China Exports versus FDI
2:30 PM	ITI			POL ANTRAS, MIT and NBER Incomplete Contracts and the Product Cycle
3:00 PM	CF			JIE GAN, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Collateral Channel and Investment: Evidence from the Land-Price Collapse in Japan
3:50 PM	CF			ALEXANDER DYCK, Harvard University LUIGI ZINGALES, University of Chicago and NBER The Media and Asset Prices
TUESDAY, AUGUST 5
9:00 AM	CF			MICHAEL FAULKENDER, Washington University in St. Louis MITCHELL PETERSEN, Northwestern University and NBER Does the Source of Capital affect Capital Structure?
9:30 AM	ITI			ROBERT ANDERTON, European Central Bank RICHARD BALDWIN, Graduate Institute for International Studies and NBER DARIA TAGLIONI, Graduate Institute for International Studies The Impact of Monetary Union on Trade Prices
9:50 AM	CF			AUGUSTIN LANDIER, University of Chicago DAVID THESMAR, ENSAE and CREST Financial Contracting with Optimistic Entrepreneurs: Theory and Evidence
11:00 AM	ITI			JOHN ROMALIS, University of Chicago and NBER CHRISTIAN BRODA, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Identifying the Effect of Exchange Rate Volatility on Trade
11:10 AM	CF			ESLYN JEAN-BAPTISTE and MICHAEL RIORDAN, Columbia University Capital Markets Constrain Industry Scale
1:00 PM	ITI			VINCENT DUPONT, University of Lille 1 PHILIPPE MARTIN, University of Paris 1 Regional Policies and Inequalities: Are Subsidies Good For You?
1:00 PM	CF			HEITOR ALMEIDA, New York University MURILLO CAMPELLO, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Financial Constraints, Asset Tangibility, and Corporate Investment
2:20 PM	CF			ALEXANDER LJUNGQVIST, New York University FELICIA MARSTON and WILLIAM WILHELM, JR., University of Virginia Competing for Securities Underwriting Mandates: Banking Relationships and Analyst Recommendations
2:30 PM	ITI			RIKARD FORSLID, Stockholm University Regional Policy, Integration and the Location of Industry
3:10 PM	CF			HARRISON HONG, Stanford University JEREMY C. STEIN, Harvard University and NBER Simple Forecasts and Paradigm Shifts
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6
9:30 AM	ITI			DOUGLAS IRWIN, Dartmouth College and NBER The Welfare Cost of Autarky: Evidence from the Jeffersonian Trade Embargo, 1807-1809 and Trade Disruptions and America’s Early Industrialization
11:00 AM	ITI			NUNO LIMÃO, University of Maryland Preferential Agreements as Stumbling Blocks for Multilateral Trade Liberalization: Empirical Estimates for the U.S.
1:00 PM	ITI			RAYMOND ROBERTSON, Macalester College Did NAFTA Increase Labor Market Integration between the United States and Mexico?
2:30 PM	ITI			DAVID HUMMELS, Purdue University and NBER ALEXANDRE SKIBA, Purdue University Shipping the Good Apples Out? An Empirical Confirmation of the Alchian-Allen Conjecture
THURSDAY, AUGUST 7
9:30 AM	ITI			GIOVANNI PERI, UC, Davis Knowledge Flows, R&D Spillovers and Innovation
11:00 AM	ITI			MARY AMITI and LISA CAMERON, University of Melbourne Industrial Location and Wages in a Developing Country: The Case of Indonesia
1:15 PM	ITI/CRIW			SUSAN FEINBERG, University of Maryland MICHAEL KEANE, Yale University Accounting for the Growth of MNC-Based Trade using a Structural Model of U.S. MNCs
2:45 PM	ITI/CRIW			JONATHAN EATON, New York University and NBER SAMUEL KORTUM, University of Minnesota and NBER FRANCIS KRAMARZ, INSEE, France An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence from French Firms
4:00 PM	ITI/CRIW			MARK AGUIAR and GITA GOPINATH, University of Chicago JOHN ROMALIS, University of Chicago and NBER Cross-Border Ownership, Liquidity and Technology Transfer
FRIDAY, AUGUST 8
9:00 AM	ITI/CRIW			GORDON HANSON, UC, San Diego and NBER RAYMOND MATALONI, JR., Bureau of Economic Analysis MATTHEW SLAUGHTER, Dartmouth College and NBER Expansion Abroad and the Domestic Operations of U.S. Multinational Firms
10:15 AM	ITI/CRIW			MARIA BORGA and WILLIAM ZEILE, Bureau of Economic Analysis International Fragmentation of Production and the Intrafirm Trade of U.S. Multinational Companies
11:15 AM	ITI/CRIW			MARIA BORGA, Bureau of Economic Analysis ROBERT LIPSEY, Queens College and NBER Factor Prices and Factor Substitution in U.S. Multinationals