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
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 1930s and 40s
HENRY SIU
The Fiscal Role of Conscription in the
HAL COLE and Lee Ohanian
Deflation, Real Wages, and the International Great Depression: A Productivity Puzzle.
3:40, adjourn.