NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Twenty-third Annual Conference on Macroeconomics

Daron Acemoglu, Kenneth Rogoff and Michael Woodford, Organizers

April 4-5, 2008

The Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, MA

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

FRIDAY APRIL 4:
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	GIUSEPPE MOSCARINI, Yale University and NBER
	FABIEN POSTEL-VINAY, University of Bristol
	The Timing of Labor Market Expansions: New Facts and a New Hypothesis
	Discussants: ROBERT HALL. Stanford University and NBER
	ROBERT SHIMER, University of Chicago and NBER
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	JEAN BOIVIN, HEC Montréal and NBER
	MARC GIANNONI, Columbia University and NBER
	BENOIT MOJON, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
	Macroeconomic Dynamics in the Euro Area
	Discussants: LUCREZIA REICHLIN, European Central Bank
	HARALD UHLIG, University of Chicago
12:30 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm	QUAMRUL ASHRAF and ASHLEY LESTER, Brown University
	DAVID WEIL, Brown University and NBER
	When Does Improving Health Raise GDP?
	Discussants: HOYT BLEAKLEY, University of Chicago and NBER
	SIMON JOHNSON, International Monetary Fund and NBER
3:30 pm	Break
4:00 pm	JEREMY GREENWOOD, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
	NEZIH GUNER, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
	Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households
	Discussants: STEFANIA ALBANESI, Columbia University and NBER
	JUSTIN WOLFERS, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
5:30 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Group Dinner
	Royal Sonesta Hotel
SATURDAY MARCH 31:
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	MARKUS BRUNNERMEIER, Princeton University and NBER
	STEFAN NAGEL, Stanford University and NBER
	LASSE PEDERSEN, New York University and NBER
	Carry Trades and Currency Crises
	Discussants: CRAIG BURNSIDE, Duke University and NBER
	HANNO LUSTIG, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	ANDREW ATKESON, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
	PATRICK KEHOE, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER
	On the Need for a New Approach to Analyzing Monetary Policy
	Discussants: JOHN COCHRANE, University of Chicago and NBER
	BENNETT MCCALLUM, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
12:30 pm	Adjourn
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