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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC
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Economic Fluctuations and Growth
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Mark Bils and Matthew Shapiro,
Organizers |
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July 17, 2004 |
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Royal Sonesta Hotel |
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5 Cambridge Parkway |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM |
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FRIDAY, JULY 16: |
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6:30 p.m. |
Reception and Dinner |
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Royal Sonesta Hotel |
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SATURDAY, JULY 17: |
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8:30 a.m. |
Continental
Breakfast |
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9:00 a.m. |
DAVID
JOHNSON, Bureau of Labor Statistics |
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JONATHAN
PARKER, Princeton University and NBER |
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NICHOLAS
SOULELES, University of Pennsylvania and NBER |
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The
Response of Consumer Spending to the Randomized |
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Income
Tax Rebates of 2001 |
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Discussant: NICOLA FUCHS-SCHUNDELN, Yale University |
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10:00 a.m. |
Coffee
Break |
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10:30 a.m. |
MARCO
BATTAGLINI, Princeton University |
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STEPHEN
COATE, Cornell University and NBER |
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Pareto
Efficient Income Taxation with Stochastic Abilities |
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Discussant: NARAYANA KOCHERLAKOTA, Stanford University
and NBER |
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11:30 a.m. |
GIORGIO
PRIMICERI, Princeton University |
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Why
Inflation Rose and Fell: |
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Policymakers
Beliefs and US Postwar Stabilization Policy |
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Discussant: ERIC LEEPER, Indiana University and NBER |
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12:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
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1:30 p.m. |
CHRISTINA
ROMER and DAVID ROMER, UC, Berkeley and NBER |
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A
New Measure of Monetary Shocks: |
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Derivation
and Implications |
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Discussant: JOHN COCHRANE, University of Chicago and
NBER |
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2:30 p.m. |
Coffee
Break |
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3:00 p.m. |
YONGSUNG
CHANG, ANDREAS HORNSTEIN, and |
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PIERRE-DANIEL
SARTE, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond |
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Productivity,
Employment, and Inventories: |
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Smoothing
Over Sticky Prices |
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Discussant: VALERIE RAMEY, UC, San Diego and NBER |
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4:00 p.m. |
RICARDO
CABALLERO, MIT and NBER |
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EDUARDO
ENGEL,Yale University and NBER |
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Adjustment
is Much Slower than You Think |
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Discussant: ROBERT HALL, Stanford University and NBER |
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5:00 p.m. |
Adjourn |
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5/20/04 |
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