NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting

Andrew Atkeson and Robert King, Organizers

 

February 9, 2007

 

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

1st Floor Conference Room

101 Market Street

San Francisco, California

 

PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9:

 

 

 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

 9:00 am

DAVID CARD and RAJ CHETTY, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

ANDREA WEBER, Institute for Advanced Studies

 

Cash-on-Hand and Competing Models of Intertemporal Behavior:  New Evidence from the Labor Market

 

 

 

Discussant:  ROBERT HALL, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

10:00 am

Coffee Break

 

 

10:30 am

JONATHAN HEATHCOTE, Georgetown University

 

KJETIL STORESLETTEN, University of Oslo

 

GIOVANNI VIOLANTE, New York University

 

Consumption and Labor Supply with Partial Insurance:  An Analytical Framework

 

 

 

Discussant:  LUIGI PISTAFERRI, Stanford University

 

 

11:30 am

STEVEN DAVIS, University of Chicago and NBER

 

R. JASON FABERMAN, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland and NBER

 

The Establishment-Level Behavior of Vacancies and Hiring

 

 

 

Discussant:  ROBERT SHIMER, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:30 pm

ANDREAS HORNSTEIN, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

 

PER KRUSELL, Princeton University and NBER

 

GIOVANNI VIOLANTE, New York University

 

Frictional Wage Dispersion in Search Models:  A Quantitative Assessment

 

 

 

Discussant:  DALE MORTENSEN, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

 2:30 pm

Coffee Break

 

 

 3:00 pm

RUEDIGER BACHMANN, Yale University

 

RICARDO CABALLERO, MIT and NBER

 

EDUARDO ENGEL, Yale University and NBER

 

Lumpy Investment in Dynamic General Equilibrium

 

 

 

Discussant:  JULIA THOMAS, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and NBER

 

 

 4:00 pm

DIRK KRUEGER, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

HANNO LUSTIG, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

 

The Irrelevance of Market Incompleteness for the Price of Aggregate Risk

 

 

 

Discussant:  JOHN HEATON, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

 5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 pm

Reception and Dinner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12/21/06