NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2006

 

Aggregate Implications of Microeconomic Consumption Behavior

 

Orazio Attanasio, Christopher Carroll, and Jose-Victor Rios-Rull, Organizers

 

July 17-21, 2006

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Parkview Room

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 17:

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9:00 am

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!

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

JUAN CARLOS CORDOBA, Rice University

 

GENEVIEVE VERDIER, Texas A&M University

 

Lucas vs. Lucas:  On Inequality and Growth

 

 

11:15 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

JEREMY LISE, Queen’s University

 

On-the-Job Search and Precautionary Savings: Theory and Empirics of Earnings and Wealth Inequality

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

TUESDAY, JULY 18:

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9:00 am

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

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

CHRISTIAN GOLLIER, University of Toulouse

 

Whom Should We Believe?  Collective Risk-Taking Decisions with Heterogeneous Beliefs

 

 

11:15 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

VINCENZO QUADRINI, University of Southern California and NBER

 

JOSE-VICTOR RIOS-RULL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Capital Markets Liberalization, Savings and Global Imbalances

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 19:

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9:00 am

YANN ALGAN, PSE

 

XAVIER RAGOT, PSE

 

Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Agents and Credit Constraints

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

MANUELA ANGELUCCI, University of Arizona

 

GIACOMO DE GIORGI, University College London

 

Indirect Effects of an Aid Program:  The Case of Progresa and Consumption

 

 

11:15 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

NEZIH GUNER, REMZI KAYGUSUZ and GUSTAVO VENTURA,

 

Pennsylvania State University

 

Taxation, Aggregates and the Household

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 20:

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9:00 am

ERICH BATTISTIN, ENRICO RETTORE, and GUGLIELMO WEBER, University of Padova

 

AGAR BRUGIAVINI, University of Venice

 

How Large is the Retirement Consumption Drop in Italy

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

JONAS FISHER, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 

MARTIN GERVAIS, University of Western Ontario

 

First-Time Home Buyers and the Decline in Aggregate Volatility

 

 

11:15 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

THOMAS HINTERMAIER, Institute for Advanced Studies

 

WINFRIED KOENIGER, University of Bonn

 

Income Risk, Risk-Sharing, and Household Debt

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

FRIDAY, JULY 21:

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9:00 am

CHARLES YUJI HORIOKA, Osaka University and NBER

 

JUNMIN WAN, Osaka University

 

Why Does China Save So Much?

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

DMYTRO HRYSHKO, University of Houston

 

Informational Assumptions on Income Processes and Consumption Dynamics in the Buffer Stock Model of Savings

 

 

11:15 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

MARCOS CHAMON and ESWAR PRASAD, International Monetary Fund

 

Determinants of Household Saving in China

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6/9/06