NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Macroeconomics and Individual Decision Making Conference

George Akerlof and Robert Shiller, Organizers

November 4, 2006

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

600 Atlantic Avenue

Boston, MA

PROGRAM

8:15 am	Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for Federal Reserve Bank
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Utility and Happiness
	Miles Kimball, University of Michigan and NBER
	Robert Willis, University of Michigan
	Discussant: Christopher Hsee, University of Chicago
10:00 am	Leadership in Groups: A Monetary Policy Experiment
	Alan Blinder, Princeton University and NBER
	John Morgan, University of California at Berkeley
	Discussant: Petra Geraats, University of Cambridge
11:00 am	Coffee Break
11:30 am	Why Has CEO Pay Increased So Much?
	Xavier Gabaix, MIT and NBER
	Augustin Landier, New York University
	Discussant: George Baker, Harvard University and NBER
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Coarse Thinking and Persuasion
	Sendhil Mullainathan and Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER
	Joshua Schwartzstein, Harvard University
	Discussant: Eric Zitzewitz, Stanford University
2:30 pm	The Rising-Tide Tax System: Indexing (at Least Partially) for Changes in Inequality
	Leonard Burman and Jeffrey Rohaly, Tax Policy Center
	Robert Shiller, Yale University and NBER
	Discussant: Christopher Foote, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and NBER
3:30 pm	Coffee Break
4:00 pm	A Cognitive Theory of Identity, Dignity and Taboos
	Roland Benabou, Princeton University and NBER
	Jean Tirole, IDEI and GREMAQ, Toulouse
	Discussant: Robert Oxoby, University of Calgary
5:00 pm	Adjourn
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