MACROECONOMICS ACROSS TIME AND SPACE

(Tentative program)

 

Sponsors

 

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and the NBER

 

Organizers

 

Jeremy Greenwood, Lee Ohanian and Peter Rupert

 

Friday, May 18th

 

 

1:00, 1st session.  Female Labor Force Participation

 

STEFANIA ALBANESI and Claudia Olivetti,

“Gender Roles and Technological Progress.”

 

ALESSANDRA FOGLI and Laura Veldkamp

“Nature or Nurture? Learning and Female Labor Force Dynamics.”

 

2:40, 20 min break

 

3:00, 2nd session.  Financial Development and Economic Development

 

JEREMY GREENWOOD, Juan M. Sanchez and Cheng Wang

“Financing Development: The Role of Information Costs.”

 

Robert M. Townsend and KENICHI UEDA

“Welfare Gains from Financial Liberalization.”   

 

4:40, 20 min break.

 

5:00, 3rd session.  More on Economic Development

 

Rodi Manuelli and ANANTH SESHADRI

“Neoclassical Miracles.”

 

5:50 adjourn

 

Saturday, May 19th

 

9:00, 1st session.  Monetary Economics

 

Ping He, Lixin Huang, and RANDALL WRIGHT

“Money, Banking and Monetary Policy.”

 

FRANCOIS VELDE

“Chronicle of a Deflation Unforetold.”

 

10:40, 20 min break.

 

11:00, 2nd session.  Political Economy

 

Matthias Doepke and MICHELE TERTILT

“Women's Liberation: What was in it for Men?”

 

Betsy Caucutt, THOMAS COOLEY, and Nezih Guner

“The Farm, the City and the Emergence of Social Security.”

 

12:40-2:00, lunch.

 

2:00, 3rd session. The 1930’s and 40’s

 

HENRY SIU

“The Fiscal Role of Conscription in the U.S. World War II Effort.”

 

HAL COLE and Lee Ohanian

“Deflation, Real Wages, and the International Great Depression: A Productivity Puzzle.”

 

3:40, adjourn.