NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting

Lawrence Christiano and Patrick Kehoe, Organizers

 

July 14, 2007

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Grand Ballroom A

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

                                                                     PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, JULY 13:

 

 

 6:30 pm

Reception and Dinner – Parkview Room

   

 

SATURDAY, JULY 14:

 

 

 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

 9:00 am

RICHARD ROGERSON, Arizona State University and NBER

 

JOHANNA WALLENIUS, Arizona State University

 

Micro and Macro Elasticities in a Life Cycle Model with Taxes

 

 

 

Critic:  ROBERT HALL, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

10:00 am

Coffee Break

 

 

10:30 am

ENRIQUE MENDOZA, University of Maryland and NBER

 

VINCENZO QUADRINI, University of Southern California and NBER

 

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

 

Financial Integration, Financial Deepness and Global Imbalances

 

 

 

Critic:  CHARLES ENGEL, University of Wisconsin and NBER

 

 

11:30 am

WILLIAM DUPOR, JING HAN and YI CHAN TSAI, Ohio State University

 

What do Technology Shocks Tell Us about the New Keynesian Paradigm?

 

 

 

Critic:  ROBERT KING, Boston University and NBER

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch - Grand Ballroom B

 

 

 1:30 pm

DARON ACEMOGLU and SIMON JOHNSON, MIT and NBER

 

Disease and Development:  The Effect of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth

 

 

 

Critic:  GARY BECKER, University of Chicago

 

 

 2:30 pm

Coffee Break

 

 

 3:00 pm

NIR JAIMOVICH, Stanford University

 

HENRY SIU, University of British Columbia

 

The Young, the Old, and the Restless: Demographics and Business Cycle Volatility

 

 

 

Critic:  VALERIE RAMEY, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

 

 4:00 pm

GUIDO MENZIO, University of Pennsylvania

 

A Search Theory of Rigid Prices

 

 

 

Critic:  ROBERT SHIMER, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

 5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7/3/07