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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

EF&G Research Meeting

Paul Beaudry and John Leahy, Organizers

October 26, 2012

Federal Reserve Bank of New York
10th Floor Benjamin Strong Room
33 Liberty Street
New York, NY

PROGRAM

 

 

Thursday, October 25:


6:30 pm


Reception and Dinner

Federal Reserve Bank of New York (enter at 44 Maiden Lane)

1st Floor Dining Room


Friday, October 26:


8:30 am


Continental Breakfast


9:00 am


Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago and NBER
Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER
Charles Jones, Stanford University and NBER
Peter Klenow, Stanford University and NBER
The Allocation of Talent and U.S. Economic Growth

Discussant:  Raquel Fernandez, New York University and NBER


10:00 am


Break


10:30 am


Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota and NBER
Serdar Ozkan, Federal Reserve Board
Jae Song, Social Security Administration
The Nature of Countercyclical Income Risk

Discussant:  Jonathan Heathcote, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis


11:30 am


Loukas Karabarbounis, University of Chicago and NBER
Brent Neiman, University of Chicago and NBER
Declining Labor Shares and the Global Rise of Corporate Savings

Discussant:  Robert Hall, Stanford University and NBER


12:30 pm


Lunch


1:30 pm


Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe, Columbia University and NBER
Martin Uribe, Columbia University and NBER
Prudential Policy for Peggers

Discussant:  Gianluca Benigno, London School of Economics


2:30 pm


Break


3:00 pm


Eric Swanson, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
John Williams, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Measuring the Effect of the Zero Lower Bound on Medium- and Longer-Term Interest Rates

Discussant:  James Hamilton, University of California at San Diego and NBER


4:00 pm


Alisdair McKay, Boston University
Ricardo Reis, Columbia University and NBER
The Role of Automatic Stabilizers in the U.S. Business Cycle

Discussant: 
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

5:00 pm

Adjourn