NBER ECONOMIC GROWTH CONFERENCE

February 8, 2007

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

4th Floor Conference Room

101 Market Street

San Francisco, California

Berthold Herrendorf and Diego Restuccia, Organizers

PROGRAM

9:00 am	Continental Breakfast
9:30 am	Educational Attainment in U.S. Cities
	LUTZ HENDRICKS, Iowa State University
	Discussant: GIOVANNI PERI, UC, Davis and NBER
10:30 am	Financial Frictions and the Persistence of History: A Quantitative Exploration
	FRANCISCO BUERA, Northwestern University
	YONGSEOK SHIN, University of Wisconsin
	Discussant: PEDRO AMARAL, University of Minnesota
11:30 am	Coffee Break
11:45 am	Capital-Skill Complementarity and Economic Development
	YONGSUNG CHANG, Seoul National University
	ANDREAS HORNSTEIN, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
	Discussant: RICHARD ROGERSON, Arizona State University and NBER
12:45 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm	International Trade and Income Differences
	MICHAEL WAUGH, University of Iowa
	Discussant: KEI-MU YI, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
3:00 pm	Financing Development: The Role of Information Costs
	JEREMY GREENWOOD, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
	JUAN SANCHEZ, University of Rochester
	CHENG WANG, Iowa State University
	Discussant: B. RAVIKUMAR, University of Iowa
4:00 pm	Coffee Break
4:15 pm	The Weak Link Theory of Economic Development
	CHARLES JONES, UC, Berkeley and NBER
	Discussant: MICHÈLE TERTILT, Stanford University
5:15 pm	Adjoun
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