NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH Summer Institute 2006 Master Program
MONDAY, JULY 10:
9:00 am		IFM		KOSUKE AOKI and GIANLUCA BENIGNO, London School of Economics
				NOBUHIRO KIYOTAKI, London School of Economics and NBER
				Adjusting to Capital Liberalization
9:15 am		DAE		RICHARD STECKEL, Ohio State University and NBER
				Ecological Conditions and Nutritional Success of Equestrian Nomads on the Great Plains
10:20 am		DAE		PETER MANCALL, University of Southern California
				JOSH ROSENBLOOM and TOM WEISS, University of Kansas and NBER
				Re-Examining the Role of Exports in the Economy of Colonial America: Evidence from the Middle Colonies and Lower South
10:40 am		IFM		ENRIQUE MENDOZA, University of Maryland and NBER
				MARCELO OVIEDO, Iowa State University
				Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Uncertainty in Emerging Markets
11:25 am		DAE		FILIPPO OCCHINO, Rutgers University
				KIM OOSTERLINCK, Université Libre de Bruxelles
				EUGENE WHITE, Rutgers University and NBER
				How Occupied France Financed its own Exploitation in World War II
1:15 pm		DAE		LATIKA CHAUDHARY, UC, Los Angeles
				Social Divisions and Public Goods Provision: Evidence from Colonial India
2:15 pm		ME		LINDA GOLDBERG, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and NBER
				MICHAEL KLEIN, Tufts University and NBER
				Establishing Credibility: Evolving Perceptions of the European Central Bank
2:20 pm		DAE		KEN SOKOLOFF, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
				ERIC ZOLT, UC, Los Angeles
				Inequality and the Evolution of Institutions of Taxation: Evidence from the Economic History of the Americas
3:10 pm		ME		MATTEO CICCARELLI and BENOÎT MOJON, European Central Bank
				Global Inflation
3:25 pm		DAE		ART CARDEN, Washington University
				Trial by Fury: Institutions and Southern Development
TUESDAY, JULY 11:
8:30 am		EFWW		ULRICH MUELLER, Princeton University
				Correlation and Heterogeneity Robust Inference Based on T-Statistics
9:00 am		DAE		ERIC HILT, Wellesley College and NBER
				Corporate Ownership and Governance in the Early Nineteenth Century
9:00 am		IFM		DOIREANN FITZGERALD, UC, Santa Cruz
				Trade Costs, Asset Market Frictions and Risk Sharing: A Joint Test
9:45 am		EFWW		MICHAEL McCRACKEN, University of Missouri
				Combining Forecasts from Nested Models
10:05 am		DAE		RICHARD SYLLA and ROBERT WRIGHT, New York University and NBER
				DAVID COWEN, New York University
				The U.S. Panic of 1792: Financial Crisis Management and the Lender of Last Resort
10:40 am		IFM		FERNANDO BRONER and ALBERTO MARTIN, CREI
				JAUME VENTURA, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and NBER
				Sovereign Risk and Secondary Markets
11:00 am		EFWW		ALEXEI ONATSKI, Columbia University
				Asymptotic Distribution of Principal Components Estimator of Large Spherical Factor Models
11:10 am		DAE		SEAN GAILMARD and JEFFERY JENKINS Northwestern University
				Agency Problems and Electoral Institutions: The 17^th Amendment and Representation in the Senate
1:00 pm		DAE		CAROLA FRYDMAN, Harvard University
				Rising Through the Ranks: The Evolution of the Market for Corporate Executives, 1936-2003
1:00 pm		ME		MARK GERTLER and JOHN LEAHY, New York University and NBER
				A Phillips Curve with an Ss Foundation
1:55 pm		ME		CARLOS CARVALHO, Princeton University
				Heterogeneity in Price Stickiness and the New Keynesian Phillips Curve
2:10 pm		DAE		JOE KABOSKI, Ohio State University
				TREVON LOGAN, Ohio State University and NBER
				The Returns to Education in the Early 20th Century: New Historical Evidence
3:05 pm		ME		THOMAS SARGENT, New York University and NBER
				NOAH WILLIAMS, Princeton University and NBER
				TAO ZHA, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
				Hyperinflations: Expectations, Escapes, and Regimes
3:15 pm		DAE		RON ALQUIST, University of Michigan
				BENJAMIN CHABOT, University of Michigan and NBER
				The Tie That Bound? Did Adherence to the Gold Standard Really Lower the Cost of Capital?
WEDNESDAY, JULY 12:
8:30 am		EFWW		MIN WEI, Federal Reserve Board
				Do Macro Variables, Asset Markets, or Surveys Forecast Inflation Better?
9:00 am		DAE		SUNG WON KANG, Samsung Group
				HUGH ROCKOFF. Rutgers University and NBER
				After Johnny Came Marching Home: Veterans Benefits from the Revolution through the Korean War
9:00 a.m.		IFM		PIERRE-OLIVIER GOURINCHAS, UC, Berkeley and NBER
				OLIVIER JEANNE, International Monetary Fund
				Capital Flows to Developing Countries: the Allocation Puzzle
9:45		EFWW		REFET GÜRKAYNAK, Bilkent University
				JUSTIN WOLFERS, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
				Macroeconomic Derivatives: An Initial Analysis of Market-Based Macro Forecasts, Uncertainty, and Risk
10:05 am		DAE		MINDY MILLER, University of Michigan
				Forty Acres and (no) Mule: Evaluating the Impact of Free Land on the Outcomes of Former Slaves
10:40 a.m.		IFM		JIANDONG JU, University of Oklahoma
				SHANG-JIN WEI, Harvard University and NBER
				A Solution to Two Paradoxes of International Capital Flows
11:00 am		EFWW		MASSIMILIANO MARCELLINO, Universita Bocconi
				A Simple Benchmark for Forecasts of Growth and Inflation
11:10 am		DAE		RADEK SZULGA, UC, Davis
				A Dynamic Model of Female Labor Force Participation Rate and Human Capital Investment
1:00 pm		DAE		TODD SORENSEN, University of Arizona
				SAMUEL ALLEN, UC, Davis
				PRICE FISHBACK, University of Arizona and NBER
				SHAWN KANTOR, UC, Merced and NBER
				Migration Creation, Diversion, and Retention: The New Deal Grants and Migration, 1935-1940
1:00 pm		ME		JEAN BOIVIN and MARC GIANNONI, Columbia University and NBER
				ILIAN MIHOV, INSEAD
				Sticky Prices and Monetary Policy: Evidence from Disaggregated U.S. Data
1:55 pm		ME		PETER KLENOW, Stanford University and NBER
				JONATHAN WILLIS, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
				Real Rigidities and Nominal Price Changes
2:10 pm		DAE		ZORINA KHAN, Bowdoin College and NBER
				To Have and Have Not: Are Rich Litigious Plaintiffs Favored in Court Cases?
3:05 pm		ME		GITA GOPINATH, Harvard University and NBER
				ROBERTO RIGOBON, MIT and NBER
				Sticky Borders
3:15 pm		DAE		PETER TEMIN, MIT and NBER
				The Rate of Time Preference in the United States Government
THURSDAY, JULY 13:
8:30 am		EFWW		JOHN GEWEKE, University of Iowa
				Smoothly Mixing Regressions
8:30 am		Risk		DARRELL DUFFIE, Stanford University and NBER
				ANDREAS ECKNER, GUILLAUME HOREL and LEANDO SAITA,
				Stanford University
				Frailty Correlated Default
9:00 am		DAE		THOMAS MROZ and KOLEMAN STRUMPF, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
				PAUL RHODE, University of North Carolina and NBER
				School Quality and Migration: Evidence from 1940
9:00 am		IFM		LINDA GOLDBERG, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and NBER
				JOSÉ CAMPA, IESE Business School
				Distribution Margins, Imported Inputs and the Insensitivity of the CPI to Exchange Rates
9:45		Risk		GARY GORTON, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
				PING HE, University of Illinois at Chicago
				LIXIN HUANG, City University of Hong Kong
				Asset Prices When Agents are Marked to Market
9:45 am		EFWW		GIORGIO PRIMICERI, Northwestern University and NBER
				ALEJANDRO JUSTINIANO, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
				The Time Varying Volatility of Macroeconomic Fluctuations
10:05 am		DAE		PETRA MOSER, MIT and NBER
				War and Ethnic Discrimination: Evidence from Applications to the New York Stock Exchange, 1883-1973
10:40 a.m.		IFM		STIJN VAN NIEUWERBURGH, Stanford University and NBER
				LAURA VELDKAMP, New York University
				Information Immobility and the Home Bias Puzzle
11:00 am		EFWW		ANDREW PATTON, London School of Economics
				Volatility Forecast Comparison Using Imperfect Volatility Proxies
11:00 am		Risk		FRANCIS LONGSTAFF, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
				ARVIND RAJAN, Citigroup
				An Empirical Analysis of the Pricing of Collateralized Debt Obligations
11:10 am		DAE		CHRISTOPHER MEISSNER, Cambridge University and NBER
				DAVID JACKS, Simon Fraser University
				America's Icebergs: Measuring International Integration for the USA, 1870-1913
1:00 pm		AP		DIRK KRUEGER, Goethe University Frankfurt and NBER
				HANNO LUSTIG, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
				The Irrelevance of Market Incompleteness for the Price of Aggregate Risk
1:00 pm		ME		RICARDO CABALLERO, MIT and NBER
				TAKEO HOSHI, UC, San Diego and NBER
				ANIL KASHYAP, University of Chicago and NBER
				Zombie Lending and Depressed Restructuring in Japan
1:55 pm		ME		ROBERT BARSKY, University of Michigan and NBER
				ERIC SIMS, University of Michigan
				Information Shocks, Animal Spirits, and the Meaning of Innovations in Consumer Confidence
2:15 pm		AP		HONGJUN YAN, Yale University
				Is Noise Trading Cancelled out by Aggregation
3:05		ME		MICHAEL ELSBY, University of Michigan
				Evaluating the Economic Significance of Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity
3:30		AP		VICTOR-ANGEL DEMIGUEL, London Business School
				LORENZO GARLAPPI, University of Texas at Austin
				RAMAN UPPAL, London Business School
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FRIDAY, JULY 14:
8:30 am		AP		ZHI DA and ERNST SCHAUMBURG, Northwestern University
				Target Prices, Relative Valuations and the Compensation for Liquidity Provision
8:30 am		EFWW		JAMES NASON, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
				JOHN ROGERS, Federal Reserve Board
				Making Exchange Rates Sparkle: Restricting Its Present-Value Model with Common Trends and Common Cycles
9:00 am		EFJK		CHRISTIAN BRODA, University of Chicago and NBER
				JOSHUA GREENFIELD, Columbia University
				DAVID WEINSTEIN, Columbia University and NBER
				From Groundnuts to Globalization: A Structural Estimate of Trade and Growth
9:00 am		IFM		ADRIEN VERDELHAN, Boston University
				A Habit-Based Explanation of the Exchange Rate Risk Premium
9:45 am		EFWW		JAN GROEN, Bank of England
				Fundamentals Based Exchange Rate Prediction Revisited
9:45 am		AP		ERICA LI, University of Rochester
				DMITRY LIVDAN, Texas A&M University
				LU ZHANG, University of Rochester and NBER
				Optimal Market Timing
10:15 am		EFJK		RAMON MARIMON, University of Pompeu Fabra
				VINCENZO QUADRINI, University of Southern California and NBER
				Competition, Innovation and Growth with Limited Commitment
10:40 a.m.		IFM		RODNEY RAMCHARAN, International Monetary Fund
				Does Economic Diversification Lead to Financial Development? Evidence from Topography
11:00 am		EFWW		FILIPPO ALTISSIMO, European Central Bank
				RICCARDO CRISTADORO, Banca d'Italia
				MARIO FORNI, Universita de Modena e Reggio Emilia
				MARCO LIPPI, Universita di Roma La Sapienza
				GIOVANNI VERONESE, Banca d'Italia
				New Eurocoin: Tracking Economic Growth in Real Time
11:00 am		AP		ANDREW DUBINSKY and MICHAEL JOHANNES, Columbia University
				Anticipated Uncertainty, Earnings Announcements, and Equity Options
11:15 am		EFJK		MOSHE HAZAN, Hebrew University
				Longevity and Lifetime Labor Input: Data and Implications
1:00 pm		AP		EVAN ANDERSON, Northern Illinois University
				ERIC GHYSELS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
				JENNIFER JUERGENS, Arizona State University
				The Impact of Risk and Uncertainty on Expected Returns
1:00 pm		ME		LUCA BENATI, Bank of England
				UK Monetary Regimes and Macroeconomic Stylised Facts
1:15 pm		EFJK		DIEGO COMIN, New York University and NBER
				BART HOBIJN, and EMILIE ROVITO, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
				Five Facts You Need to Know About Technology Diffusion
1:55 pm		ME		GARY RICHARDSON and WILLIAM TROOST, UC, Irvine
				Monetary Intervention Mitigated Banking Panics during the Great Depression: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Federal Reserve District Border in Mississippi, 1929 to 1933
2:15 pm		AP		LAURENT CALVET, HEC School of Management and NBER
				JOHN CAMPBELL, Harvard University and NBER
				PAOLO SODINI, Stockholm School of Economics
				Down and Out: Assessing the Welfare Costs of Household Investment Mistakes
2:30 pm		EFJK		ANDRES EROSA, University of Toronto
				TATYANA KORESHKOVA, Oberlin College
				DIEGO RESTUCCIA, University of Toronto
				On the Aggregate and Distributional Implications of Productivity Differences Across Countries
3:05 pm		ME		MICHELLE ALEXOPOULOS, University of Toronto
				Read All About It!! What Happens Following a Technology Shock?
3:30 pm		AP		MARIANO CROCE, New York University
				MARTIN LETTAU and SYDNEY LUDVIGSON, New York University and NBER
				Investor Information Long Run Risk and the Duration of Risky Cash-Flows
3:30 pm		EFJK		DARON ACEMOGLU and SIMON JOHNSON, MIT and NBER
				Disease and Development: The Effect of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth
SATURDAY, JULY 15:
9:00 am		EFG		RICARDO CABALLERO, MIT and NBER
				EMMANUEL FARHI, MIT
				PIERRE-OLIVIER GOURINCHAS, UC, Berkeley and NBER
				An Equilibrium Model of Global Imbalances and Low Interest Rates
10:30 am		EFG		JONATHAN HEATHCOTE, Georgetown University
				FABRIZIO PERRI, New York University and NBER
				The International Diversification Puzzle is Not as Bad as You Think
11:30 am		EFG		RAJ CHETTY, UC, Berkeley and NBER
				ADAM SZEIDL, UC, Berkeley
				Consumption Commitments and Risk Preferences
1:30 pm		EFG		NICK BLOOM, Stanford University
				The Impact of Uncertainty Shocks: Firm Level Estimation and a 9/11 Simulation
3:00 pm		EFG		FATIH GUVENEN and BURHANETTIN KURUSCU, University of Texas at Austin
				Understanding Wage Inequality: Ben-Porath Meets Skill-Biased Technical Change
4:00 pm		EFG		FRANCISCO BUERA, Northwestern University
				JOSEPH KABOSKI, Ohio State University
				The Rise of the Service Economy
MONDAY, JULY 17:
9:00 am			EFACR		JUAN CARLOS CONESA, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
					SAGIRI KITAO, New York University
					DIRK KRUEGER, Goethe University Frankfurt and NBER
					Taxing Capital? Not a Bad Idea After All!
9:00 am			EFCE		NIR JAIMOVICH, UC, San Diego
					HENRY SIU, University of British Columbia
					Demographics and Business Cycle Volatility
9:00 am			PRCR		BARRY BOSWORTH, Brookings Institution
					JACK TRIPLETT, Brookings Institution
					Services Productivity: State of the Data and of the Analysis
10:15			EFACR		JUAN CARLOS CORDOBA, Rice University
					GENEVIEVE VERDIER, Texas A&M University
					Lucas vs. Lucas: On Inequality and Growth
10:15 am			EFCE		NIR JAIMOVIC, UC, San Diego
					SERGIO REBELO, Northwestern University and NBER
					Do News Shocks Drive the Business Cycle?
10:15 am			PRCR		MICHAEL HORRIGAN, DEANNA BATHGATE and ROSLYN SWICK,
					Bureau of Labor Statistics
					BLS Services Producer Price Indices: Past, Present, and Future
11:30 am			EFACR		JEREMY LISE, Queen’s University
					On-the-Job Search and Precautionary Savings: Theory and Empirics of Earnings and Wealth Inequality
11:30 am			EFCE		LAWRENCE CHRISTIANO, Northwestern University and NBER
					ROBERTO MOTTO and MASSIMO ROSTAGNO, European Central Bank
					Monetary Policy and Boom-Bust Cycles
11:30 am			PRCR		ANA AIZCORBE, Bureau of Economic Analysis
					NICOLE NESTORIAK, Bureau of Economic Analysis
					Measuring the Real Output of Medical Care Services
12:40 pm			EFRSW		MICHAEL PRIES, University of Maryland
					Heterogeneity and the Amplification of Shocks
1:00 pm			EFEL		JOHN BOYD, University of Minnesota
					GIANNI DE NICOLO, International Monetary Fund
					ABU AL JALAL, University of Minnesota
					Bank Risk Taking and Competition Revisied: New Theory and New Evidence
1:30 pm			EFABG		DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER
					JAMES ROBINSON, Harvard University and NBER
					Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions
1:30 pm			EFRSW		CHRISTIAN HAEFKE and MICHAEL REITER, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
					Endogenous Labor Market Participation and the Business Cycle
1:30 pm			PRCR		SCOTT GOLDFARB and ROGER HELLER, Q/P Management Group
					ALAN WHITE and JAISON ABEL, Analysis Group
					Price Indexes for Custom and Own-Account Software
1:50 pm			EFEL		ARVIND KRISHNAMURTHY and ZHIGUO HE, Northwestern University
					Intermediation, Capital Immobility, and Asset Prices
2:30 pm			PRCR		ROBERT YUSKAVAGE, Bureau of Economic Analysis
					Distributive Services in the U.S. National Accounts
2:40 pm			EFRSW		GADI BARLEVY, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
					H. NAGARAJA, Ohio State University
					Identification of Search Models with Initial Condition Problems
2:45 pm			EFABG		JESS BENHABIB and ALBERTO BISIN, New York University
					The Distribution of Wealth and Redistributive Policies
2:55 pm			EFEL		STAVROS PANAGEAS, University of Pennsylvania
					Bailouts and the Incentive to Manage Risk
3:30 pm			EFRSW		EVA NAGYPAL, Northwestern University
					On the Nature of Job-to-Job Transitions
3:45 pm			EFEL		MOTOHIRO YOGO, University of Pennsylvania
					BORJA LARRAIN, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
					Does Firm Value Move Too Much to Be Justified by Subsequent Changes in Cash Flow?
4:00 pm			EFABG		DIEGO COMIN, New York University and NBER
					BART HOBIJN, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
					Lobbies and Technology Diffusion
4:40 pm			EFRSW		RASMUS LENTZ, Boston University
					DALE MORTENSEN, Northwestern University
					Optimal Growth through Product Innovation
TUESDAY, JULY 18:
9:00 am			EFABG		MATTHIAS DOEPKE, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
					MOSHE HAZAN, Hebrew University
					YISHAY MAOZ, University of Haifa
					The Baby Boom and World War II: The Role of Labor Market Experience
9:00 am			EFACR		MARIACRISTINA DE NARDI and ERIC FRENCH,
					Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
					JOHN BAILEY JONES, University at Albany
					Differential Mortality, Uncertain Medical Expenses, and the Saving of Elderly Singles
9:00 am			EFCE		ANDREW LEVIN, DAVID LOPEZ-SALIDO and TACK YUN,
					Federal Reserve Board
					Strategic Complementarities and Optimal Monetary Policy
9:00 am			PRCR		DENNIS FIXLER, Bureau of Economic Analysis
					MARSHALL REINSDORF, Bureau of Economic Analysis
					Computing Real Bank Services
9:45 am			PRCR		SUSANTO BASU, Boston College
					ROBERT INKLAAR, University of Groningen and the Conference Board
					CHRISTINA WANG, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
					Implicit Prices of Implicit Financial Services
					SUSANTO BASU, Boston College
					CHRISTINA WANG, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
					Microfoundations of the “User Cost of Money” and the Measurement of Financial Services Prices
10:15 am			EFABG		ODED GALOR, Brown University
					OMER MOAV, Hebrew University
					Natural Selection and the Evolution of Life Expectancy
10:15 am			EFACR		CHRISTIAN GOLLIER, University of Toulouse
					Whom Should We Believe? Collective Risk-Taking Decisions with Heterogeneous Beliefs
10:15 am			EFCE		MICHAEL WOODFORD, Columbia University and NBER
					Robustly Optimal Monetary Policy Under Near-Rational Expectations
10:30 am			EFABG		RODOLFO MANUELLI and ANANTH SESHADRI, University of Wisconsin
					Births, Deaths and Development: The Role of Human Capital
11:30 am			EFACR		VINCENZO QUADRINI, University of Southern California and NBER
					JOSE-VICTOR RIOS-RULL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
					Capital Markets Liberalization, Savings and Global Imbalances
11:30 am			EFCE		STEPHANIE SCHMITT-GROHE and MARTIN URIBE.
					Duke University and NBER
					Optimal Inflation Stabilization in a Medium-Scale Macroeconomic Model
12:40 pm			EFRSW		ROBERT HALL, Stanford University and NBER
					Work-Consumption Preferences and Employment Volatility
1:00 pm			EFEL		MICHAEL HALIASSOS, Goethe University Frankfurt
					DIMITRIS CHRISTELIS, University of Salerno
					DIMITRIS GEORGARAKOS, Goethe University Frankfurt
					Portfolio Composition of the Elderly, an International Comparison
1:00 pm			PRCR		DAVID PATON, Nottingham University
					DONALD SEIGEL, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
					LEIGHTON WILLIAMS, Nottingham Trent University
					Productivity Measurement in Gambling
1:30 pm			EFABG		FERNANDO BRONER, CREI
					JAUME VENTURA, CREI and NBER
					Globalization and Risk Sharing
1:30 pm			EFRSW		ROBERT SHIMER, University of Chicago and NBER
					Mismatch and Mobility
1:50 pm			EFEL		PAUL WILLEN, University of Chicago
					FELIX KUBLER, Stanford University
					Collateralized Borrowing and Life-Cycle Portfolio Choice
2:00 pm			PRCR		THEODORE CRONE, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
					LEONARD NAKAMURA, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
					RICHARD VOITH, Econsult Corporation
					Rents Have Been Rising, Not Falling, in the Postwar Period
2:40 pm			EFRSW		PHILLIP KIRCHER, University of Bonn
					Efficiency of Simultaneous Directed Search with Recall
2:55 pm			EFEL		ADRIANO RAMPINI and ANDREA EISFELDT, Northwestern University
					Leasing, Ability to Repossess and Debt Capacity
2:45 pm			EFABG		PAOLO EPIFANI, Università Bocconi
					GINO GANCIA, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
					On Globalization and the Growth of Governments
3:15 pm			PRCR		W. ERWIN DIEWERT, University of British Columbia and NBER
					On Measuring Inventory Change in Current and Constant Dollars
3:30 pm			EFRSW		BOYAN JOVANOVIC, New York University and NBER
					BALAZS SZENTES, University of Chicago
					An Estimated Model of the Market for Venture Capital
3:45 pm			EFEL		VIRAL ACHARYA, London Business School
					HEITOR ALMEIDA, New York University and NBER
					MURILLO CAMPELLO, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER
					Is Cash Negative Debt? A Hedging Perspective on Corporate Financial Policies
4:00 pm			EFABG		XAVIER GABAIX, MIT and NBER
					AUGUSTIN LANDIER, New York University
					Why Has CEO Pay Increased So Much?
4:40 pm			EFRSW		ALEKSANDER BERENTSEN, Universität Basel
					GUIDO MENZIO, Northwestern University
					RANDALL WRIGHT, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
					Inflation and Unemployment: Lagos-Wright meets Mortensen-Pissarides
WEDNESDAY, JULY 19:
8:45 am			PRCR		ROBERT INKLAAR, MARCEL TIMMER and BART VAN ARK,
					University of Groningen
					Mind the Gap! International Comparisons of Productivity in Services and Goods Production
9:00 am			EFABG		MICHELE BOLDRIN, University of Minnesota
					JESÚS FERNÁNDEZ-VILLAVERDE, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
					A Theory of Growth Cycles
9:00 am			EFACR		YANN ALGAN, PSE
					XAVIER RAGOT, PSE
					Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Agents and Credit Constraints
9:00 am			EFCE		RANDALL WRIGHT, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
					RAFAEL SILVEIRA, University of Pennsylvania
					Liquidity and the Market for Ideas
10:00 am			PRCR		CAROL CORRADO, Federal Reserve Board
					PAUL LENGERMANN, Federal Reserve Board
					ERIC BARTELSMAN, Free University of Amsterdam
					J. JOSEPH BEAULIEU, Brevan Howard, Inc.
					Modeling Aggregate Productivity at a Disaggregate Level: New Results for U.S. Sectors and Industries
10:15 am			EFABG		MIKLOS KOREN, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
					SILVANA TENREYRO, London School of Economics
					Technological Diversification
10:15 am			EFACR		MANUELA ANGELUCCI, University of Arizona
					GIACOMO DE GIORGI, University College London
					Indirect Effects of an Aid Program: The Case of Progresa and Consumption
10:15 am			EFCE		VALERIE RAMEY, UC, San Diego and NBER
					Identification of Fiscal Spending Shocks
11:15 am			PRCR		CHARLES HULTEN, University of Maryland and NBER
					ANDERS ISAKSSON, UNIDO
					Why Income Levels Differ: The Sources of Differential Economic Growth in a Panel of High and Low Income Countries
11:30 am			EFABG		FRANCESCO CASELLI, London School of Economics and NBER
					JAMES FEYRER, Dartmouth College
					The Marginal Product of Capital
11:30 am			EFACR		NEZIH GUNER, REMZI KAYGUSUZ and GUSTAVO VENTURA,
					Pennsylvania State University
					Taxation, Aggregates and the Household
11:30 am			EFCE		BOYAN JOVANOVIC, New York University and NBER
					Investment Options and the Business Cycle
12:40 pm			EFRSW		STEVE DAVIS, University of Chicago and NBER
					JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland and NBER
					RON JARMIN, and JAVIER MIRANDA, Bureau of the Census
					Volatility and Dispersion in Business Growth Rates: Publicly Traded vs Privately Held Firms
1:00 pm			EFEL		GUIDO LORENZONI, MIT and NBER
					KARL WALENTIN, New York University
					Financial Frictions, Investment, and Tobin's Q
1:15 pm			PRCR		BAOLINE CHEN, Bureau of Economic Analysis
					Estimation of Structural Distribution of Statistical Discrepancy in the US National Accounts
1:30 pm			EFABG		DANIEL CHEN, University of Chicago
					JO LIND, University of Oslo
					The Political Economy of Beliefs: Why Fiscal and Social Conservatives and Liberals Come Hand-in-Hand
1:30 pm			EFRSW		RAQUEL FERNANDEZ, New York University and NBER
					ALESSANDRA FOGLI, New York University
					The Evolution of Preferences and Women’s Work: A Quantitative Evaluation of the Role of Culture
1:50 pm			EFEL		THOMAS PHILIPPON, New York University and NBER
					The Y-Theory of Investment
2:30 pm			PRCR		CINDY ZOGHI, Bureau of Labor Statistics
					Changes to the BLS Labor Composition Index
2:40 pm			EFRSW		CHRISTOPHER HOUSE, University of Michigan and NBER
					JOHN LAITNER and DMITRIY STOLYAROV, University of Michigan
					Valuing Lost Home Production of Dual Career Couples
2:45 pm			EFABG		BENJAMIN OLKEN, Harvard University and NBER
					Do Television and Radio Destroy Social Capital? Evidence from Indonesian Villages
2:55 pm			EFEL		WEI XIONG, Princeton University and NBER
					HONGJUN YAN, Yale University
					Heterogeneous Beliefs and Bond Yields
3:30 pm			EFRSW		KELLY RAGAN, University of Chicago
					Taxes, Transfers and Time Use in a Model with Household Production
3:45 pm			EFEL		NENG WANG, Columbia University
					RUI ALBUQUERQUE, University of Rochester
					Agency Conflicts, Investment, and Asset Pricing
3:45 pm			PRCR		ANA AIZCORBE, Bureau of Economic Analysis
					STEVE OLINER, Federal Reserve Board
					DAN SICHEL, Federal Reserve Board
					Shifting Trends in Semiconductor Prices and the Pace of Technological Progress
4:00 pm			EFABG		LINDA WONG, Binghamton University
					Women's Economic Progress and Inequality
4:40 pm			EFRSW		RICHARD ROGERSON, Arizona State University
					TBA
THURSDAY, JULY 20:
8:30 am			IO		ULRICH DORASZELSKI, Stanford University
					JORDI JAUMANDREU, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
					R&D and Productivity: The Knowledge Capital Model Revisited
9:00 am			EFACR		ERICH BATTISTIN, ENRICO RETTORE, and GUGLIELMO WEBER, University of Padova
					AGAR BRUGIAVINI, University of Venice
					How Large is the Retirement Consumption Drop in Italy
9:00 am			PRBB		IAN DEW-BECKER, Northwestern University
					ROBERT J. GORDON, Northwestern University and NBER
					Why Did the Catch-Up in Europe’s Productivity Level Sputter Out? A Tale of Tigers and Tortoises
9:00 am			EFCE		OLIVIER BLANCHARD and JORDI GALÍ, MIT and NBER
					A New Keynesian Model with Unemployment
10:00 am			IO		AMIL PETRIN, University of Chicago and NBER
					JAMES LEVINSOHN, University of Michigan and NBER
					Measuring Aggregate Productivity Growth Using Plant-Level Data
10:15 am			EFACR		JONAS FISHER, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
					MARTIN GERVAIS, University of Western Ontario
					First-Time Home Buyers and the Decline in Aggregate Volatility
10:15 am			PRBB		RAM ACHARYA, Industry Canada
					WOLFGANG KELLER, University of Colorado at Boulder and NBER
					The Evolution of the World’s Technology Frontier, 1973-2002
10:15 am			EFCE		MARK GERTLER, New York University and NBER
					ANTONELLA TRIGARI, Università Bocconi
					TBA
11:15 am			PRBB		MICHELLE ALEXOPOULOS, University of Toronto
					Read All About It!! What Happens Following a Technology Shock?
11:30 am			IO		PAT BAJARI, University of Michigan and NBER
					JEREMY FOX, University of Chicago
					Complementarities and Collusion in an FCC Spectrum Auction
11:30 am			EFACR		THOMAS HINTERMAIER, Institute for Advanced Studies
					WINFRIED KOENIGER, University of Bonn
					Income Risk, Risk-Sharing, and Household Debt
11:30 am			EFCE		LEE OHANIAN, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
					What--Or Who--Caused the Great Depression?
12:40 pm			EFRSW		GUIDO MENZIO, Northwestern University
					ESPEN MOEN, Norwegian School of Management
					Incomplete Self-Enforcing Labor Contracts
1:15 pm			IO		FRANK WOLAK, Stanford University and NBER
					Residential Customer Response to Real-Time Pricing: The Anaheim Critical-Peak Pricing Experiment
1:30			PRBB		ZHENG LIU, Emory University
					LOUIS PHANEUF, University of Quebec at Montreal
					Technology Shocks and Labor Market Dynamics: Some Evidence and Theory
1:30 pm			EFRSW		ROBERT SHIMER, University of Chicago and NBER
					IVAN WERNING, MIT and NBER
					On the Optimal Timing of UI Benefits
2:15 pm			IO		TIM DUNNE, University of Oklahoma
					SHAWN KLIMEK, Bureau of the Census
					MARK ROBERTS, Pennsylvania State University and NBER
					YI XU, Pennsylvania State University
					Entry and Exit in Geographic Markets
2:40 pm			EFRSW		KEN BURDETT and MELVYN COLES, University of Essex
					Wage/Tenure Profiles with Heterogenous Firms
2:45 pm			IO		LUIS GARICANO, University of Chicago
					TOM HUBBARD, Northwestern University and NBER
					The Return to Hierachy
2:45 pm			PRBB		ROBERT CHIRINKO and DEBDULAK MALLICK, Emory University
					A Low-Pass Filtered Panel Model for Estimating Production Function Parameters: The Substitution Elasticity and Growth Theory
3:30 pm			EFRSW		MIEN-YUN KUO and ERIC SMITH, University of Essex
					Marketplace Matching in Britain: Evidence from Individual Unemployment Spells
3:45 pm			IO		WES HARTMANN and BRIAN VIARD, Stanford University
					Price Discrimination and Switching Costs in Frequency Reward Programs
FRIDAY, JULY 21:
8:45 am			PRB		LUIGI BENFRATELLO, Universita di Torino
					FABIO SCHIANTARELLI, Boston College
					ALESSANDRO SEMBENELLI, Universita di Torino
					Banks and Innovation: Microeconometric Evidence
9:00 am			EFACR		CHARLES YUJI HORIOKA, Osaka University and NBER
					JUNMIN WAN, Osaka University
					Why Does China Save So Much?
9:00 am			EFCE		CRAIG BURNSIDE, Duke University and NBER
					MARTIN EICHENBAUM and SERGIO REBELLO, Northwestern University and NBER
					YIZHAQ KLESHCHELSKI, Northwestern University
					The Returns to Currency Speculation
9:15 am			IO		HANH AHLEE, Stanford University
					ULRIKE MALMENDIER, Stanford University and NBER
					Do Consumers Know Their Willingness to Pay? Evidence from eBay Auctions
10:00 am			PRB		RICHARD SULLIVAN and ZHU WANG, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
					Internet Banking: An Exploration in Technology Diffusion and Impact
10:15 am			EFACR		DMYTRO HRYSHKO, University of Houston
					Informational Assumptions on Income Processes and Consumption Dynamics in the Buffer Stock Model of Savings
10:15 am			EFCE		EMMANUEL FARHI, MIT
					IVAN WERNING, MIT and NBER
					Capital Taxation: Quantitative Explorations of the Inverse Euler Equation
10:45 am			IO		JEAN-PIERRE DUBE, GUNTER HITSCH and PETER ROSSI,
					University of Chicago
					Do Switching Costs Make Markets Less Competitive?
11:15 am			PRB		EDWARD WOLFF, New York University and NBER
					The Growth of Information Workers in the U.S. Economy, 1950-2000: The Role of Technological Change, Coputerization, and Structural Change
11:30 am			EFACR		MARCOS CHAMON and ESWAR PRASAD, International Monetary Fund
					Determinants of Household Saving in China
11:30 am			EFCE		JESS BENHABIB and ALBERTO BISIN, New York University
					The Distribution of Wealth and Redistributive Policies
1:15 pm			IO		FRANK WOLAK, Stanford University and NBER
					Residential Customer Response to Real-Time Pricing: The Anaheim Critical-Peak Pricing Experiment
1:30 pm			PRB		CHRIS FORMAN, Carnegie Mellon University
					AVI GOLDFARB, University of Toronto
					SHANE GREENSTEIN, Northwestern University and NBER
					Understanding the Inputs into Innovation: Do Cities Substitute for Internal Firm Resources?
2:45 pm			IO		LUIS GARICANO, University of Chicago
					TOM HUBBARD, Northwestern University and NBER
					The Return to Hierachy
2:45 pm			PRB		RUSSEL COOPER, Macquarie University
					GARY MADDEN, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
					A Contribution to Welfare-Consistent Productivity Measurement
3:45 pm			PRB		JOSEPH DEMASI, Tufts University
					HENRY GRABOWSKI, Duke University
					The Cost of Biopharmaceutical R & D: Is Biotech Different?
MONDAY, JULY 24:
8:45 am			LS		ANDERS BJORKLUND, Stockholm University
					MARKUS JANTTI, Abo Akademi University
					GARY SOLON, University of Michigan and NBER
					Nature and Nurture in the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status: Evidence from Swedish Children and Their Biological and Rearing Parents
9:00 am			PESI		BRUCE MEYER, University of Chicago and NBER
					WALLACE MOK, Northwestern University
					Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Unemployment Insurance from New York State
9:30 am			PRIPE		DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER
					PHILIPPE AGHION, Harvard University and NBER
					CLAIRE LELARGE, INSEE-CREST
					JOHN VAN REENEN, London School of Economics
					FABRIZIO ZILIBOTTI, Stockholm University
					Technology, Information and the Centralization of the Firm
10:00 am			LS		PAUL BEAUDRY, University of British Columbia and NBER
					MARK DOMS, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
					ETHAN LEWIS, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
					The IT Revolution at the City Level:
					Testing a Model of Endogenous Biased Technology Adoption
10:00 am			PESI		HANMING FANG, Yale University and NBER
					MICHAEL P. KEANE, Yale University
					DANIEL SILVERMAN, University of Michigan and NBER
					Sources of Advantageous Selection: Evidence from the Medigap Insurance Market
10:20 am			AW		WILLIAM GALE, Brookings Institution
					GREGORY MILLS, Abt Associates
					RHIANNON PATTERSON, Abt Associates
					Do Individual Development Accounts Raise Saving? Experimental Evidence
10:30 am			PRIPE		AVI GOLDFARB and AJAY AGRAWAL, University of Toronto
					Restructuring Research: Communication Costs and the Democratization of University Innovation
11:10 am			AW		ANNAMARIA LUSARDI, Dartmouth College and NBER
					OLIVIA MITCHELL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
					Finanicial Literacy and Planning: Implications for Retirement Wellbeing
11:15 am			LS		ABDURRAHMAN AYDEMIR, Statistics Canada
					GEORGE BORJAS, Harvard University and NBER
					Attenuation Bias in Measuring the Wage Impact of Immigration
11:30 am			PESI		ROBYN DAWES and CHRISTINA FONG, Carnegie Mellon University
					ERZO LUTTMER, Harvard University and NBER
					Experimental Evidence on the Role of Race in Giving to Hurricane Katrina Victims
11:45 am			PRIPE		BRIAN JACOB, Harvard University and NBER
					LARS LEFGREN, Brigham Young University
					How effective are Government Expenditures on R&D? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Impact of NIH Research Funding on Scientific Knowledge
1:00 pm			HE		ANGELA FERTIG, University of Georgia
					GERHARD GLOMM and RUSTY TCHERNIS, Indiana University
					The Connection between Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: Inspecting the Mechanism
1:00 pm			AW		SUMIT AGARWAL, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
					JOHN DRISCOLL, Federal Reserve Board
					XAVIER GABAIX, MIT and NBER
					DAVID LAIBSON, Harvard University and NBER
					Financial Mistakes Over the Lifecycle
1:15 pm			LS		ADRIANA KUGLER, University of Houston and NBER
					MUTLU YUKSEL, University of Houston
					Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives: Evidence from Hurricane Mitch
1:30 pm			PESI		OLIVIER BLANCHARD, MIT and NBER
					JEAN TIROLE, University of Toulouse
					The Joint Design of Unemployment Insurance and Employment Protection: A First Pass
1:50 pm			AW		JONATHAN SKINNER, Dartmouth College and NBER
					Are You Saving Enough for Retirement?
2:00 pm			PRIPE		KEITH MASKUS, AHMED MUSHFIQ MOBARAK and ERIC STUEN,
					University of Colorado
					The Causal Impact of Immigration Policy and Foreign Graduate Students on Innovation in the U.S.: Evidence from Enrollment Shocks
2:15 pm			HE		SHERRY GLIED, Columbia University and NBER
					MATTHEW NEIDELL, Columbia University
					The Economic Value of Teeth: Evidence from Water Flouridation
2:30 pm			LS		GEORGE BORJAS, Harvard University and NBER
					RACHEL FRIEDBERG, Brown University and NBER
					The Immigrant Earnings Turnaround of the 1990s
2:30 pm			PESI		ROBERT SHIMER, University of Chicago and NBER
					IVAN WERNING, MIT and NBER
					Liquidity and Insurance for the Unemployed
3:00 pm			PRIPE		WESLEY YIN, University of Chicago
					Do Market Incentives Generate Innovation or Balkanization?  Evidence from the Market for Rare Disease Drugs
3:10 pm			AW		JOHN BOUND, University of Michigan and NBER
					TODD STINEBRICKNER, University of Western Ontario
					TIMOTHY WAIDMAN, Urban Institute
					Health, Economic Resources and the Work Decisions of Older Men
3:30 pm			HE		JOHN BRIDGES, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
					PENNY FELDMAN and TIMOTHY PENG Visiting Nurse Service of New York
					Team Structure and Adverse Events in Home Health Care
3:30 pm			LS		KRISTIN BUTCHER, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
					ANNE PIEHL, Rutgers University and NBER
					Why Are Immigrants’ Incarceration Rates So Low? Evidence on Selective Immigration, Deterrence, and Deportation
4:00 pm			PESI		DAVID AUTOR, MIT and NBER
					MARK DUGGAN, University of Maryland and NBER
					The Pure Income Effect of Disability Cash Transfers: Evidence from the Veteran Administration's Disability Compensation Program
4:30 pm			PRIPE		Panel discussion: The State of the Patent System
					STEVEN M. BAUER, Partner, Proskauer Rose
					ROBERT P. HAYTER, Assoc. General Counsel and Chief IP Counsel, United Technonogies Corp.
					CARL SHAPIRO, UC, Berkeley and NBER
					Moderator – IAIN COCKBURN, Boston University and NBER
TUESDAY JULY 25:
8:45 am			LS		JOHN DINARDO, University of Michigan and NBER
					JUSTIN MCCRARY, University of Michigan
					LISA SANBONMATSU, NBER
					Constructive Proposals for Dealing with Attrition: An Empirical Example
9:00 am			AW		JESSICA WOLPAW REYES, Amherst College
					The Effect of College Financial Aid Rules on the Allocation of Savings
9:00 am			HE		JOHN CAWLEY, Cornell University and NBER
					JOHN MORAN, Syracuse University
					KOSALIE SIMON, Cornell University and NBER
					You Can Never Be Too Rich or Too Thin: The Causal Impact of Income on Obesity
9:00 am			PENS		ALAN KRUEGER, Princeton University and NBER
					The Origins of Terrorism and Foreign Insurgents in Iraq
9:00 am			PRL		BRONWYN HALL, UC, Berkeley and NBER
					MEGAN MACGARVIE, Boston University and NBER
					The Private Value of Software Patents
9:50 am			AW		RICARDO REIS, Princeton University and NBER
					A Cost-Of-Living Dynamic Price Index, with an Application to Indexing Retirement Accounts
9:50 am			PENS		EFFIE BENMELECH, Harvard University and NBER
					CLAUDE BERREBI, RAND Corporation
					Attack Assignments in Terror Organizations and the Productivity of Suicide Bombers
10:00 am			LS		CLAUDIA OLIVETTI, Boston University
					BARBARA PETRONGOLO, London School of Economics
					Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Gender Gaps
10:00 am			PRL		MARK SCHANKERMAN, London School of Economics
					MICHAEL NOEL, UC, San Diego
					Strategic Patenting and Software Innovation
10:15 am			HE		DALTON CONLEY, New York University and NBER
					JEFFREY SACHS, Columbia University and NBER
					GORDON MCCORD, Columbia University
					New Evidence on the Lagging Demographic Transition in Africa
11:00 am			PENS		STEVEN DAVIS, KEVIN MURPHY and ROBERT TOPEL,
					University of Chicago and NBER
					War in Iraq Versus Containment
11:10 am			AW		COURTNEY COILE and PHILLIP LEVINE, Wellesley College and NBER
					Labor Market Shocks and Retirement: Do Government Programs Matter?
11:15 am			LS		CATHERINE WEINBERGER, UC, Santa Barbara
					PETER KUHN, UC, Santa Barbara and NBER
					The Narrowing of the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap, 1959-1999: A Cohort-Based Analysis
11:15 am			PRL		MARGARET KYLE, Duke University and NBER
					Strategic Responses to Parallel Trade
11:30 am			HE		BO MACINNIS, University of Michigan
					Does College Education Impact Health? Evidence from the Pre-Lottery Vietnam Draft
11:50 am			PENS		WILLIAM NORDHAUS, Yale University and NBER
					JOHN O’NEAL, University of Alabama
					BRUCE RUSSETT, Yale University
					Determinants of Threats and Military Spending
1:00 pm			AW		MICHAEL HURD, RAND and NBER
					SUSAN ROHWEDDER, RAND
					Life-Cycle Consumption Paths in Old Age
1:00 pm			PERE		BYRON LUTZ, Federal Reserve Board
					How Elastic is Residential Capital Investment to Property Taxation? Evidence from Court-Induced Tax Changes
1:15 pm			LS		ALAN KRUEGER, Princeton University and NBER
					DANIEL KAHNEMAN, Princeton University
					Sorting in the Labor Market: Do Gregarious Workers Flock to More Interactive Jobs
1:15 pm			PRL		YI QIAN, Harvard University
					Pricing and Marketing Impacts of Entry by Counterfeiters and Imitators
1:50 pm			AW		RICHARD BURKHAUSER, Cornell University
					ROBERT WEATHERS II, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
					Has the Americans with Disability Act Changed Workplace Accommodations? Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
1:50 pm			AW		RICHARD BURKHAUSER, Cornell University
					ROBERT WEATHERS II, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
					Has the Americans with Disability Act Changed Workplace Accommodations? Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
2:00 pm			CH		GRANT MILLER, Stanford University and NBER
					Women’s Preferences and Child Survival in American History
2:00 pm			PENS		ANTONIO SPILIMBERGO, International Monetary Fund
					Foreign Education and Democracy
2:00 pm			PERE		FRANCOIS ORTALO-MAGNE, University of Wisconsin
					ANDREA PRAT, London School of Economics
					The Political Economy of Housing Supply
2:30 pm			LS		DARON ACEMOGLU and AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT and NBER
					Input and Technology Choice in Regulated Industries: Evidence from the Health Care Sector
2:30 pm			PRL		JOSEPH FARRELL, UC, Berkeley
					CARL SHAPIRO, UC, Berkeley
					How Strong are Weak Patents?
2:50 pm			PENS		HOWARD KUNREUTHER, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
					ERWANN MICHEL-KERJAN, University of Pennsylvania
					Looking Beyond TRIA: A Clinical Examination of Potential Terrorism Loss Sharing
3:10 pm			AW		TATIANA ANDREYEVA, ARIE KAPTEYN, JIM SMITH, and ARTHUR VAN SOEST,
					RAND Corporation
					Self Reported Disability and Reference Groups
3:30 pm			CH		MICHAEL BAKER, University of Toronto and NBER
					KEVIN MILLIGAN, University of British Columbia and NBER
					The Early Developmental and Health Benefits of Maternity Leave Mandates
3:30 pm			LS		RAJ CHETTY, UC, Berkeley and NBER
					ANDREA WEBER, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
					DAVID CARD, UC, Berkeley and NBER
					Does Cash-in-Hand Matter? New Evidence from the Labor Market
3:30 pm			PERE		NATHAN ANDERSON, University of Illinois-Chicago
					Voting, Opportunity Costs, and Property Taxes
3:30 pm			PRL		DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER
					UFUK AKCIGIT, MIT
					State-Dependent Intellectual Property Right Policy
4:00 pm			PENS		JACOB KLERMAN and DAVID LOUGHRAN, RAND Corporation
					Reserve Affiliation
4:30 pm			PERE		JACOB VIGDOR, Duke University and NBER
					Does Urban Decay Harm the Poor?
4:50 pm			PENS		SANDEEP BALIGA and DAVID LUCCA, Northwestern University
					TOMAS SJÖSTRÖM, Rutgers University
					Domestic Political Survival and International Conflict: Is Democracy Good for Peace?
WED JULY 26:
8:30 am			PERE		CHRIS MAYER, Columbia University and NBER
					YINGJIN HILA GAN, Lehman Brothers
					Agency Conflicts, Asset Substitution, and Securitization
9:00 am			AW/PESS		LOUIS KAPLOW, Harvard University and NBER
					Myopia and the Effect of Social Security and Capital Taxation on Labor Supply
10:00 am			CH		WANCHUAN LIN, UC, Los Angeles
					Accounting for the Change in the Gradient: Health Inequality among Infants
9:00 am			LS		JUSTIN WOLFERS, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
					JOHN DONOHUE, Yale University and NBER
					Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate
10:00 am			AW/PESS		ALAN AUERBACH and RONALD LEE, UC Berkeley and NBER
					Notional Defined Contribution Pension Systems in a Stochastic Context: Design and Stability
10:00 am			PERE		CHRIS DOWNING, Rice University
					DWIGHT JAFFE and NANCY WALLACE, UC, Berkeley
					Asset Indivisibility, Security Design, and Asset Quality
10:15 am			LS		GORDON DAHL, University of Rochester and NBER
					STEFANO DELLAVIGNA, UC Berkeley and NBER
					Does Media Violence Deter Street Crime? Evidence from Movie Releases
11:00 am			PERE		LEIGH LINDEN, Columbia University
					JONAH ROCKOFF, Columbia University and NBER
					How Do People Respond to the Fear of Crime? Evidence from Megan’s Law and the Housing Market
11:30 am			AW/PESS		DAVID CUTLER and JEFFREY LIEBMAN, Harvard University and NBER
					SEAMUS SMYTH, Harvard University
					How Fast Should the Social Security Retirement Age Rise?
11:30 am			CH		ERNESTO VILLANUEVA, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
					Does Limited Access to Mortgage Debt Explain Why Young Adults Live with Their Parents?
11:30 am			LS		DAVID CARD, UC Berkeley and NBER
					ALEX MAS, UC Berkeley and NBER
					JESSE ROTHSTEIN, Princeton University and NBER
					Tipping: Evidence from Schools and Neighborhoods
1:00 pm			PERE		MOHAMMAD ARZAGHI, Brown University
					J. VERNON HENDERSON, Brown University and NBER
					Networking off Madison Avenue
1:30 pm			CH/LS		BRIAN JACOB, Harvard University and NBER
					JENS LUDWIG, Georgetown University and NBER
					The Effects of Family Income on Youth Outcomes: Evidence from a Randomized Housing-Voucher Lottery
1:30 pm			AW/PESS		BRUCE MEYER, University of Chicago and NBER
					The Change in Earnings, Income, and Consumption Following Disability
2:00 pm			PERE		EDWARD GLAESER, Harvard University and NBER
					JOE GYOURKO, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
					Housing Cycles
2:30 pm			CH/LS		ADAM ASHCRAFT, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
					KEVIN LANG, Boston University and NBER
					The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing
3:00 pm			AW/PESS		MARIO CATALAN, JAIME GUAJARDO and ALEXANDER W. HOFFMAISTER, International Monetary Fund
					Coping with Spain’s Aging: Retirement Rules and Incentives
3:30 pm			PERE		LEAH BROOKS, McGill University
					Volunteering to be Taxed: Business Improvement Districts and the Extra-Governmental Provision of Public Safety
4:00 pm			AW/PESS		JEAN-OLIVIER HAIRAULT, University of Paris
					FRANCOIS LANGOT, University of Maine
					THEPTHIDA SOPRASEUTH, University of Evry
					On the Interaction Between Retirement and the Employment of Older Workers
4:00 pm			CH/LS		DOUG ALMOND, Columbia University and NBER
					KEN CHAY, UC Berkeley and NBER
					HILARY HOYNES, UC, Davis and NBER
					DIANE WHITMORE SCHANZENBACH, University of Chicago
					The Great Society and Child and Family Well-Being: Impacts of the Introduction of the Food Stamp Program
THURSDAY, JULY 27:
8:30 am	EE					STEVEN SHAVELL, Harvard University and NBER
						On Optimal Legal Change, Past Behavior, and Grandfathering
9:00 am	PET					CLEMENS SIALM, University of Michigan and NBER
						Investment Taxes and Equity Returns
9:00 am	PRHA					DAVID H. HOWARD, Emory University
						SUSAN BUSCH, Yale University
						Understanding Recent Trends in Chronic Disease Treatment Rates: Are we Getting Sicker or Getting Screened?
9:00 am	LE					XAVIER GABAIX, MIT and NBER
						SUMIT AGARWAL, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
						JOHN C. DRISCOLL, Federal Reserve Board
						DAVID LAIBSON, Harvard University and NBER
						Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Shrouding, and the Dynamics of Attention and Inattention
9:00 am	LS/ED					JOSH ANGRIST, MIT and NBER
						DANIEL LANG, University of Toronto
						PHILIP OREOPOULOS, University of Toronto and NBER
						Incentives and Services for College Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
9:30 am	EE					DALLAS BURTRAW and KAREN PALMER, Resources for the Future
						Compensation Rules for Climate Policy in the Electricity Sector
9:45 am	LE					A. MITCHELL POLINSKY, Stanford University and NBER
						STEVEN SHAVELL, Harvard University and NBER
						Mandatory versus Voluntary Disclosure of Product Risks
9:50 am	PRHA					NICOLE MAESTAS, RAND Corporation
						MATHIS SCHROEDER, Cornell University
						DANA GOLDMAN, RAND Corporation and NBER
						Price Variation in Markets with Homogenous Goods: The Case of Medigap
10:00 am	LS/ED					SCOTT CARRELL, Dartmouth College
						RICHARD FULLERTON and JAMES WEST, U.S. Air Force Academy
						ROBERT GILCHRIST, Adams State College
						Peer and Leadership Effects in Academic and Athletic Performance
10:15 am	PET					RAJ CHETTY and EMMANUEL SAEZ, UC, Berkeley and NBER
						An Agency Theory of Dividend Taxation
10:45 am	LE					JANET CURRIE, Columbia University and NBER
						W. BENTLEY MACLEOD, Columbia University
						First Do No Harm? The Effects of Tort Reform on Outcomes and Procedures at Birth
10:55 am	PRHA					M. KATE BUNDORF, Stanford University and NBER
						MELINDA HENNE, Stanford University
						LAURENCE BAKER, Stanford University and NBER
						Health Insurance, Infertility Treatment, and Birth Outcomes
11:00 am	EE					JAMES BUSHNELL, UC, Berkeley
						CATHERINE WOLFRAM, UC, Berkeley and NBER
						The Economic Effects of Vintage Differentiated Regulations: The Case of New Source Review
11:30 am	PET					AUSTAN GOOLSBEE, University of Chicago and NBER
						Taxes and Entrepreneurial Ventures
11:30 am	LE					CHRISTINE JOLLS, Harvard University and NBER
						Workplace Leave Mandates and the Employment of Individuals with Disabilities
11:30 am	LS/ED					MATT GENTZKOW, University of Chicago
						JESSE SHAPIRO, University of Chicago and NBER
						Does Television Rot Your Brain? New Evidence from the Coleman Study
11:45 am	PRHA					KARINE LAMIRAUD and ALBERTO HOLLY, IEMS
						ESTELLE MARTIN, University Hospital of Switzerland
						KONRADE VON BREMEN, IEMS
						The Impact of Information on Patient Preferences in Different Delivery Patterns (Prescription versus OTC Drugs)
1:15 pm	PRHA					JON GRUBER and Invited Panelists
						Massachusetts Health Insurance Plan
1:15 pm	PPL					PAUL OYER, Stanford University and NBER
						Ability and Employer Learning: Evidence from the Economist Labor Market
1:15 pm	LE					ANDREI SHLEIFER, Harvard University and NBER
						NICOLA GENNAIOLI, Stockholm University
						Judicial Fact Discretion
1:30 pm	LS/ED					RAEGEN MILLER, Harvard University
						RICHARD MURNANE, Harvard University and NBER
						JOHN WILLETT, Harvard University
						The Effect of Teacher Absences of Student Achievement
1:45 pm	PET					MIKHAIL GOLOSOV, MIT and NBER
						ALEH TSYVINSKI, Harvard University and NBER
						IVAN WERNING, MIT and NBER
						New Dynamic Public Finance: A User’s Guide
2:15 pm	LE					SUZANNE SCOTCHMER, UC, Berkeley and NBER
						MARK SCHANKERMAN, London School of Economics
						Still Looking for Lost Profits: The Case of Horizontal Competition
2:30 pm	PRHA					RUCKER JOHNSON, UC, Berkeley
						ROBERT SCHOENI, University of Michigan
						Economic Status in Childhood, Birth Weight, and Adult Health and Labor Market Outcomes
2:30 pm	PPL					ANDREA ICHINO, European University Institute
						GUIDO SCHWERDT, European Central Bank
						RUDOLF WINTER-EBMER, University of Linz
						JOSEF ZWEIMÜLLER, University of Zurich
						Too Old to Work, Too Young to Retire?
2:30 pm	EE					WOLFRAM SCHLENKER, Columbia University
						Inter-Annual Weather Variation and Crop Yields
2:30 pm	LS/ED					MAGNUS LOFSTROM, University of Texas at Dallas
						JOHN TYLER, Brown University and NBER
						Does the GED Credentialing Program Encourage Students to Drop Out of High School? Evidence from Texas
3:00 pm	PET					JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER
						A Tax-Based Estimate of the Intertemporal Elasticity of Substitution
3:00 pm	LE					OLIVER HART, Harvard University and NBER
						JOHN MOORE, University of Edinburgh
						Partial Contracts
3:30 pm	EE					M. SCOTT TAYLOR, University of Calgary and NBER
						Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison
3:35 pm	PRHA					MICHAEL LAW and KAREN GRÉPIN, Harvard University
						Newer is Not Always Better
4:00 pm	LE					CHRISTOPHER SNYDER, Dartmouth College
						ROHAN PITCHFORD, University of Sydney
						The Identity of the Generator in the Problem of Social Cost
4:00 pm	LS/ED					EFRAIM BENMELECH, Harvard University
						CLAUDE BERREBI, RAND Corporation
						Attack Assignments in Terror Organizations and the Productivity of Suicide Bombers
4:45 pm	LE					YASUTORA WATANABE, Northwestern University
						Learning and Bargaining in Dispute Resolution: Theory and Evidence from Medical Malpractice Litigation
FRIDAY, JULY 28:
8:30 am	EE					LUCAS DAVIS, University of Michigan
						The Effect of Driving Restrictions on Air Quality in Mexico City
8:45 am	LS/PPL					XAVIER GABAIX, MIT and NBER
						AUGUSTIN LANDIER, New York University
						Why Has CEO Pay Increased So Much?
9:00 am	HCA					GAUTAM GOWRISANKARAN, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
						VIVIAN HO, Rice University
						ROBERT TOWN, University of Minnesota and NBER
						Causality, Learning, and Forgetting in Surgery
9:00 am	LE					ZVIKA NEEMAN, ANDREW NEWMAN and CLAUDIA OLIVETTI,
						Boston University
						Are Working Women Good for Marriage?
9:30 am	EE					MICHAEL KREMER, Harvard University and NBER
						JESSICA LEINO, UC, Berkeley
						EDWARD MIGUEL, UC, Berkeley and NBER
						ALIX PETERSON ZWANE, UC, Berkeley
						Spring Protection: Water Quality Improvement and Health in Kenya
9:45 am	LE					BETSEY STEVENSON, University of Pennsylvania
						The Impact of Divorce Laws on Marriage-Specific Capital
10:00 am	LS/PPL					FREDERICK ANDERSSON, Cornell University
						MATTHEW FREEDMAN, University of Maryland
						JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland and NBER
						JULIA LANE, NORC
						KATHRYN SHAW, Stanford University and NBER
						Reaching for the Stars: Who Pays for Talent in Innovative Industries
10:05 am	HCA					EMMA HALL, Department of Health
						CAROL PROPPER, University of Bristol
						JOHN VAN REENEN, London School of Economics
						The Impact of Skills and the Labor Market on Hospital Productivity and Quality: Evidence from a Panel of Hospitalists
10:45 am	LE					JUSTIN WOLFERS, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
						JOHN DONOHUE, Yale University and NBER
						The Death Penalty and Deterrence
11:00 am	EE					JANET CURRIE, Columbia University and NBER
						MICHAEL GREENSTONE, MIT and NBER
						ENRICO MORETTI, UC, Berkeley and NBER
						Are Hazardous Waste Sites Hazardous to Human Health? Evidence from Superfund Clean-Ups and Infant Health
11:10 am	HCA					RANDALL LUTTER, Food and Drug Administration
						ARTHUR E. HASS, Food and Drug Administration – currently retired
						ALLAN BEGOSH, JOHN GOLDSMITH, and DENNIS HILL,
						Food and Drug Administration
						Improvements in the Effectiveness of FDA’s Drug Safety Program: Insights from the Timing of Label Warnings
11:15 am	LS/PPL					VINCENTE CUÑAT, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
						MARIA GUADALUPE, Columbia University
						Globalization and the Provision of Incentives Inside the Firm: The Effect of Foreign Competition
11:30 am	LE					TODD KENDALL, Clemson University
						Pornography, Rape, and the Internet
1:00 pm	EE					MARK DICKIE and SHELBY GERKING, University of Central Florida
						Altruism and Environmental Risks to Health of Parents and Their Children
1:15 pm	LS/PPL					NICK BLOOM, Stanford University
						TOBIAS KRETSCHMER and JOHN VAN REENEN,
						London School of Economics
						Work-Life Balance, Management Practices and Productivity
1:15 pm	LE					ANNETTE VISSING-JORGENSEN, Northwestern University and NBER
						YAEL HOCHBERG, Northwestern University
						PAOLA SAPIENZA, Northwestern University and NBER
						A Lobbying Approach to Evaluating the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
2:15 pm	LE					DAVID BLANCHFLOWER, Dartmouth College and NBER
						JON WAINWRIGHT, NERA
						An Analysis of the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs on Self-Employment in the Construction Industry
2:15 pm	EE					ANTONIO BENTO, University of Maryland
						LAWRENCE GOULDER, Stanford University and NBER
						EMERIC HENRY and MARK JACOBSEN, Stanford University
						ROGER VON HAEFEN, North Carolina State University
						Efficiency and Distributional Impacts of Increases in US Gasoline Taxes
2:30 pm	LS/PPL					ALEXANDRE MAS and ENRICO MORETTI, UC, Berkeley and NBER
						Productivity Spillovers in the Workplace
3:15 pm	LE					DANIEL KLERMAN, University of Southern California
						Jurisdictional Competition and the Evolution of the Common Law
3:15 pm	EE					JOSHUA LINN, University of Illinois at Chicago
						Stock Prices and the Cost of Environmental Regulation
3:45 pm	LS/PPL					TILL VON WACTHER, Columbia University
						STEFAN BENDER, Institut fur Abreitsmartk – und Berufsforschung
						Is Good Luck Forever? An Analysis of Firm-Cohort Effects Using Job Movers and Matched Data
4:00 pm	LE					GILLIAN HADFIELD, University of Southern California
						The Quality of Law in Civil Code and Common Law Regimes: Judicial Incentives, Legal Human Capital and the Evolution of Law
MONDAY, JULY 31:
9:00 am			CG		STEVEN KAPLAN, University of Chicago and NBER
					BERNADETTE MINTON, Ohio State University
					How Has CEO Turnover Changed? Increasingly Performance Sensitive Boards and Increasingly Uneasy CEOs
9:30 am			ITI		KYLE BAGWELL, Columbia University and NBER
					ROBERT STAIGER, University of Wisconsin and NBER
					What Do Trade Negotiators Negotiate About? Empirical Evidence from the World Trade Organization
9:50 am			CG		DIRK JENTER, MIT and NBER
					FADI KANAAN, MIT
					CEO Turnover and Relative Performance Evaluation
11:00 am			CG		VIDHI CHHAOCHHARI, The World Bank
					YANIV GRINSTEIN, Cornell University
					CEO Compensation and Board Oversight
11:00 am			ITI		DANIEL BERNHOFEN, University of Nottingham
					Bilateral Predictions in a Multilateral World? Revisiting the Theory
11:50 am			CG		XAVIER GABAIX, MIT and NBER
					AUGUSTIN LANDIER, New York University
					Why Has CEO Pay Increased So Much?
1:00 pm			ITI		JAMES ANDERSON, Boston College and NBER
					Commercial Policy in a Predatory World
1:40 pm			CG		MICHAEL BRADLEY and ALON BRAV, Duke University
					ITAY GOLDSTEIN, University of Pennsylvania
					WEI JIANG, Columbia University
					Costly Communication, Shareholder Activism, and Limits to Arbitrage
2:30 pm			CG		MARCO BECHT, Université Libre de Bruxelles
					JULIAN FRANKS, London Business School
					COLIN MAYER, University of Oxford
					STEFANO ROSSI, Stockholm School of Economics
					Returns to Shareholder Activism: Evidence from a Clinical Study of the Hermes UK Focus Fund
2:30 pm			ITI		DANIEL MIRZA, University of Rennes 1
					THIERRY VERDIER, Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
					Are Lives Substitute to Livelihoods? Terrorism, Security and US Bilateral Imports
3:40 pm			CG		RANDAL A. HERON, Indiana University
					ERIK LIE, University of Iowa
					Does Backdating Explain the Stock Price Pattern around Executive Stock Option Grants?
4:30 pm			CG		ALEXANDER DYCK, University of Toronto
					ADAIR MORSE, University of Michigan
					LUIGI ZINGALES, University of Chicago and NBER
					Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?
TUESDAY, AUGUST 1:
8:30 am			CF		JOSHUA RAUH, University of Chicago and NBER
					Risk Shifting versus Risk Management: Investment Policy in Corporate Pension Plans
9:30 am			ITI		KEITH MASKUS, AHMED MUSHFIQ MOBARAK and ERIC STUEN, University of Colorado at Boulder
					The Causal Impact of Immigration Policy and Foreign Graduate Students on Innovation in the U.S.: Evidence from Enrollment Shocks
9:45 am			CF		MIHIR DESAI and C. FRITZ FOLEY, Harvard University and NBER
					JAMES HINES, University of Michigan and NBER
					Capital Structure and Risky Foreign Investment
10:45 am			CF		AMIR SUFI, University of Chicago
					The Real Effects of Debt Certification: Evidence from the Introduction of Bank Loan Ratings
11:00 am			ITI		GIANMARCO OTTAVIANO, Università di Bologna
					GIOVANNI PERI, UC, Davis and NBER
					Rethinking the Gains from Immigration: Theory and Evidence from the U.S.
1:00 pm			CF		JOSE LIBERTI, London Business School
					ATIF MIAN, University of Chicago and NBER
					Estimating the Effect of Hierarchies on Information Use
1:00 pm			ITI		STEPHEN REDDING, London School of Economics
					DANIEL STURM, University of Muncih
					NIKOLAUS WOLF, Free University of Berlin
					Multiple Equilibria in Industrial Location: Evidence from German Airports
2:15 pm			CF		HENRIK CRONQVIST and RUEDIGER FAHLENBRACH, Ohio State University
					Large Shareholders and Corporate Policies
2:30 pm			ITI		ANTONIO CICCONE, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
					ELIAS PAPAIOANNOU, European Central Bank
					Human Capital, the Structure of Production, and Growth
3:15 pm			CF		HOLGER MUELLER, New York University
					THOMAS PHILIPPON, New York University and NBER
					Concentrated Ownership and Labor Relations
WED, AUGUST 2:
8:30 am			CF		ANTOINETTE SCHOAR, MIT and NBER
					Judge-Specific Effects in Ch.11 and Firm Outcomes
9:30 am			ITI		JENS ARNOLD, BEATA JAVORCIK and AADITYA MATTOO,
					The World Bank
					The Productivity Effects of Services Liberalization
9:45 am			CF		KENNETH AYOTTE and STAV GAON, Columbia University
					Asset-Backed Securities: Costs and Benefits of ‘Bankruptcy Remoteness’
10:45 am			CF		ANDREA EISFELDT, Northwestern University
					ADRIANO RAMPINI, Duke University
					Leasing, Ability to Repossess, and Debt Capacity
11:00 am			ITI		MARY AMITI, International Monetary Fund
					JOZEF KONINGS, Katholieke Universiteit
					Trade Liberalization, Intermediate Inputs and Productivity: Evidence from Indonesia
1:00 pm			CF		HEITOR ALMEIDA and THOMAS PHILIPPON,
					New York University and NBER
					The Risk-Adjusted Cost of Financial Distress
1:00 pm			ITI		HIAU LOOI KEE, The World Bank
					Foreign Investment and Domestic Productivity
2:15 pm			CF		ALON BRAV, Duke University
					RONI MICHAELY, Cornell University
					MICHAEL ROBERTS, University of Pennsylvania
					REBECCA ZARUTSKIE, Duke University
					Evidence on the Tradeoff between Risk and Return for IPO and SEO Firms
2:30 pm			ITI		NATALIE CHEN, Universite Libre de Bruxelles
					JEAN IMBS and ANDREW SCOTT, London Business School
					The Dynamics of Trade and Competition
THURSDAY, AUGUST 3:
9:30 am			ITI		PAUL BERGIN and ROBERT FEENSTRA, UC, Davis
					GORDON HANSON, UC, San Diego
					Outsourcing and Volatility
11:00 am			ITI		ALEJANDRO CUNAT, University of Essex
					MARC MELITZ, Harvard University and NBER
					Volatility, Labor Market Flexibility, and the Pattern of Comparative Advantage