MONDAY, JULY 16:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 9:00 am

EFACR

GALINA VERESHCHAGINA, University of Iowa

 

 

 

Preferences for Risk in a Dynamic Model with Consumption Commitments

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

EFCE

BOYAN JOVANOVIC, New York University and NBER

 

 

 

Bubbles in Prices of Exhaustible Resources

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

PRCR

CHARLES HULTEN, Welcoming Remarks

 

 

 

 

 

9:15 am

PRCR

DALE JORGENSON, Harvard University

 

 

 

MUN S. HO, Resources for the Future

 

 

 

JON SAMUELS, Johns Hopkins University

 

 

 

KEVIN STIROH, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

 

 

 

 

10:15 am

EFACR

The Industry Origins of the American Productivity Resurgence

 

 

 

FATIH GUVENEN, University of Texas and NBER

 

 

 

Inferring Labor Income Risk from Economic Choices: An Indirect Inference Approach

 

 

 

 

 

10:15 am

EFCE

JORDI GALI, CREI and NBER

 

 

 

LUCA GAMBETTI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

 

 

 

On the Sources of the Great Moderation

 

 

 

 

 

11:00 am

PRCR

DAVID BYRNE and CAROL CORRADO, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

 

Prices for Communications Equipment: Updating and Revisiting the Record

 

 

 

 

 

11:30 am

EFACR

OLGA GORBACHEV, Columbia University

 

 

 

Did Household Consumption Become More Volatile?

 

 

 

 

 

11:30 am

EFCE

GIANCARLO CORSETTI, European University Institute

 

 

 

LUCA DEDOLA, European Central Bank

 

 

 

SYLVAIN LEDUC, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

 

Productivity and the Dollar

 

 

 

 

 

1:00 pm

EFEL

XAVIER GABAIX, New York University and NBER

 

 

 

A Simple, Unified, Exactly Solved Framework for Ten Puzzles in Macro-Finance

 

 

 

 

 

 1:00 pm

EFRSW

DALE MORTENSEN, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

 

Island Matching

 

 

 

 

 

1:00 pm

PRCR

CHARLES HULTEN, University of Maryland and NBER

 

 

 

ANDERS ISAKSSON, UNIDO

 

 

 

Roads to Prosperity:  Infrastructure and productivity at different stages of development

 

 

 

 

 

1:30 pm

EFABG

DIEGO COMIN, New York University and NBER

 

 

 

WILLIAM EASTERLY, New York University

 

 

 

ERICK GONG, UC, Berkeley

 

 

 

Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.?

 

 

 

 

 

1:50 pm

EFEL

ANDY ABEL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

 

JANICE EBERLY, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

 

STAVROS PANAGEAS, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 

Optimal Inattention to the Stock Market

 

 

 

 

 

 1:50 pm

EFRSW

FERNANDO ALVAREZ and ROBERT SHIMER, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

 

Work and Rest Unemployment

 

 

 

 

 

2:15 pm

PRCR

JONATHAN HASKEL and MAURO GIORGIO MARRANO,

 

 

 

Queen Mary, University of London

 

 

 

GAVIN WALLIS, HM Treasury

 

 

 

What Happened to the Knowledge Economy? ICT, Intangible Investment and Britain’s Productivity Record Revisited

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

KYOJI FUKAO, Hitotsubashi University

 

 

 

SUMIO HAMAGATA, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry

 

 

 

TSUTOMU MIYAGAWA, Gakushuin University

 

 

 

KONOMI TONOGI, Hitotsubashi University

 

 

 

Intangible Investment in Japan: Measurement and Contribution to Economic Growth

 

 

 

 

 

2:20 pm

EFABG

LOUIS PUTTERMAN, Brown University

 

 

 

DAVID WEIL, Brown University and NBER

 

 

 

Post-1500 Population Flows and the Long Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality

 

 

 

 

 

 2:40 pm

EFRSW

GUIDO MENZIO, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 

A Search Theory of Rigid Prices

 

 

 

 

 

2:55 pm

EFEL

JOAO F. GOMES, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 

LEONID KOGAN, MIT and NBER

 

 

 

MOTOHIRO YOGO, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

 

Durability of Output and Expected Stock Returns

 

 

 

 

 

3:45 pm

EFEL

RAVI BANSAL, Duke University and NBER

 

 

 

AMIR YARON, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

 

The Asset Pricing-Macro Nexus and Return-Cash Flow Predictability

 

 

 

 

 

3:50 pm

EFABG

STELIOS MICHALOPOULOS, Brown University

 

 

 

The Origins of Ethnolinguistic Diversity: Theory and Evidence

 

 

 

 

 

 4:00 pm

EFRSW

RUSSELL COOPER, University of Texas and NBER

 

 

 

JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland and NBER

 

 

 

JONATHAN WILLIS, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

 

 

 

Search Frictions: Matching Aggregate and Establishment Observations

 

 

 

 

 

4:00 pm

PRCR

Panel on Intangibles and Economic Growth: Further Developments

 

 

 

ROBERT SOLOW, MIT (Chair)

 

 

 

CAROL CORRADO, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

 

BART VAN ARK, Conference Board

 

 

 

MICHAEL HARPER, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

 

 

CHARLES HULTEN, University of Maryland and NBER

 

 

 

 

 

4:40 pm

EFABG

PAOLA GIULIANO and ANTONIO SPILIMBERGO, International Monetary Fund

 

 

 

GIOVANNI TONON, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

 

 

 

Genetic, Cultural and Geographical Distances

 

 

 

 

 

 4:50 pm

EFRSW

MARCELO VERACIERTO, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 

 

 

Establishment Dynamics and Matching Frictions in Classical Competitive Equilibrium

 

 

 

 

 

TUESDAY, JULY 17:

 

 

 

 

 

 9:00 am

EFACR

KARTIK.ATHREYA, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

 

 

 

Credit Market Innovations and the Changing Role of Unsecured Credit

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

EFCE

MARK GERTLER, New York University and NBER

 

 

 

LUCA SALA and ANTONELLA TRIGAR, Bocconi University

 

 

 

An Estimated Monetary DSGE Model with Unemployment and Staggered Nash Wage Bargaining

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

PRCR

CINDY ZOGHI, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

 

 

Measuring Labor Composition: A Comparison of Alternate Methodologies

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

POL

STEFANO DELLAVIGNA, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

 

ELIANA LA FERRARA, University of Bocconi

 

 

 

Detecting Illegal Arms Trade

 

 

 

 

 

10:00 am

PRCR

ALESSANDRO BARBARINO, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

 

Measuring Unemployment Composition over the Business Cycle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10:15 am

EFACR

GENG LI and KATHLEEN JOHNSON, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

 

Do High Debt Payments Hinder Household Consumption Smoothing?

 

 

 

 

 

10:15 am

EFCE

JEAN-PASCAL BENASSY, CEPREMAP, Paris

 

 

 

Dynamic Monetary Economics:  Paradoxes and a Non-Ricardian Resolution

 

 

 

 

 

10:15 am

POL

BENJAMIN JONES, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

 

BENJAMIN OLKEN, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 

Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War

 

 

 

 

 

11:15 am

PRCR

MARSHALL REINSDORF and JENNIFER RIBARSKY,

 

 

 

Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

 

 

Improved Measures of Nominal and Real Change in Inventories for the National Accounts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THOMAS HOWELLS III, EDWARD MORGAN, DYLAN RASSIER and 

 

 

 

CONRAD ROESCH, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

 

 

Implementing a Reconciliation and Balancing Model in the U.S. Industry  Accounts

 

 

 

 

 

11:30 am

EFACR

ADAM SZEIDL, UC, Berkeley

 

 

 

ATTILA AMBRUS, Harvard University

 

 

 

MARKUS MOBIUS, MIT and NBER

 

 

 

Consumption Risksharing in Social Networks

 

 

 

 

 

11:30 am

EFCE

FRANCISCO COVAS, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

 

WOUTER DEN HAAN, University of Amsterdam

 

 

 

The Role of Debt and Equity Finance over the Business Cycle

 

 

 

 

 

11:30 am

POL

CLAUDIO FERRAZ, UC, Berkeley

 

 

 

FREDERICO FINAN, UC, Los Angeles

 

 

 

Electoral Accountability and Corruption in Local Governments: Evidence from Audit Reports

 

 

 

 

 

1:00 pm

EFEL

JAMES DOW, London Business School

 

 

 

ITAY GOLDSTEIN, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 

ALEXANDER GUEMBEL, Oxford University

 

 

 

Incentives for Information Production in Markets where Prices Affect Real Investment

 

 

 

 

 

 1:00 pm

EFRSW

ROBERT HALL, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

 

Sources and Mechanisms of Cyclical Fluctuations in the Labor Market

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1:15 pm

PRCR

JONATHAN HASKEL, Queen Mary, University of London

 

 

 

RON JARMIN, Bureau of the Census

 

 

 

KAZUYUKI MOTOHASI, University of Tokyo

 

 

 

RAFFAELLA SADUM, London School of Economics

 

 

 

Retail Market Structure and Dynamics: A Three Country Comparison of Japan, the U.K. and the U.S.

 

 

 

 

 

1:30 pm

EFABG

RAQUEL FERNANDEZ, New York University AND NBER

 

 

 

Culture as Learning: The Evolution of Female Labor Force Participation over a Century

 

 

 

 

 

1:30 pm

POL

EVGENY YAKOVLEV, UC, Berkeley

 

 

 

EKATERINA ZHURAVSKAYA, New Economic School

 

 

 

Deregulation of Business

 

 

 

 

 

 1:50 pm

EFRSW

GIUSEPPE MOSCARINI, Yale University and NBER

 

 

 

FABIEN POSTEL-VINAY, CREST-INSEE

 

 

 

Can the Timing of Aggregate Labor Market Expansions be Explained by the Burdett-Mortensen Model?

 

 

 

 

 

1:50 pm

EFEL

ALEXIS ANAGNOSTOPOULOS and EVA CARCELES-POVEDA, SUNY Stonybrook

 

 

 

ALBERT MARCET, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

 

 

 

Financial Policy and Time Inconsistency

 

 

 

 

 

2:20 pm

EFABG

ALESSANDRA FOGLI and LAURA VELDKAMP, New York University

 

 

 

Nature or Nurture? Learning and Female Labor Force Dynamics

 

 

 

 

 

2:30 pm

PRCR

ROBERT INKLAAR, University of Groningen

 

 

 

J. CHRISTINA WANG, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

 

 

 

Not Your Grandfather’s Bank Anymore?  Consistent Measurement of Non-traditional Bank Output

 

 

 

 

 

 2:40 pm

EFRSW

SHOUYONG SHI, University of Toronto

 

 

 

Directed Search for Equilibrium Wage-Tenure Contracts

 

 

 

 

 

2:45 pm

POL

DAVID BARON, Stanford University

 

 

 

DANIEL DIERMEIER, Northwestern University

 

 

 

POHAN FONG, University of Rochester

 

 

 

Policy Dynamics and Inefficiency in a Parliamentary Democracy With Proportional Representation

 

 

 

 

 

2:55 pm

EFEL

QI CHEN, Duke University

 

 

 

ITAY GOLDSTEIN, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 

WEI JIANG, Columbia University

 

 

 

Payoff Complementarities and Financial Fragility: Evidence from Mutual Fund Outflows

 

 

 

 

 

 3:45 pm

EFEL

ALESSANDRA BONFIGLIOLI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

 

 

 

Investor Protection, Risk-sharing and Inequality

 

 

 

 

 

3:45 pm

POL

GUIDO TABELLINI, IGIER

 

 

 

The Scope of Cooperation: Norms and Incentives

 

 

 

 

 

3:45 pm

PRCR

CHISTOPHER KNITTEL, UC, Davis and NBER

 

 

 

VICTOR SANGO, Dartmouth College

 

 

 

Information Technology, Outsourcing, Product Mix and Productivity in a Service Sector: Evidence from the U.S. Credit Unions

 

 

 

 

 

3:50 pm

EFABG

FRANCIS KRAMARZ, CREST

 

 

 

OSKAR SKANS, Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation

 

 

 

With a Little Help from my … Parents ? Family Networks and Youth Labor Market Entry

 

 

 

 

 

 4:00 pm

EFRSW

CHRISTIAN HAEFKE, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna

 

 

 

MARCUS SONTAG, University of Bonn 

 

 

 

THIJS VAN RENS, CREI

 

 

 

Wage Rigidity and Job Creation

 

 

 

 

 

4:40 pm

EFABG

KAIVAN MUNSHI, Brown University and NBER

 

 

 

NICHOLAS WILSON, Brown University

 

 

 

Identity and Occupational Choice in the American Midwest

 

 

 

 

 

 4:50 pm

EFRSW

CHRISTOPHER PISSARIDES, London School of Economics

 

 

 

The Unemployment Volatility Puzzle: Is Wage Stickiness the Answer?

 

 

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 18:

 

 

 

 

 

8:30 am

PRB

W. ERWIN DIEWERT, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

 

 

FRANK C. WYKOFF, Pomona College

 

 

 

Depreciation, Deterioration and Obsolescence when there is Embodied or Disembodied Technical Change

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

EFABG

DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER

 

 

 

DAVIDE TICCHI, University of Urbino

 

 

 

ANDREA VINDIGNI, Princeton University

 

 

 

Emergence and Persistence of Inefficient States

 

 

 

 

 

 9:00 am

EFACR

ERIC YOUNG and PONPOJE PORAPAKKARM University of Virginia

 

 

 

Information Heterogeneity in the Macroeconomy

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

EFCE

MICHELLE ALEXOPOULOS, University of Toronto

 

 

 

One Shock, Two Shocks, Three Shocks, Four

 

 

 

 

 

10:00 am

PRB

KENNETH FLAMM, University of Texas at Austin

 

 

 

 

The Microeconomics of Microprocessor Innovation

 

 

 

 

 

 

10:15 am

EFABG

ROLAND BENABOU, Princeton University and NBER

 

 

 

Groupthink and Ideology

 

 

 

 

 

10:15 am

EFACR

GUGLIELMO WEBER and DIMITRIOS CHRISTELIS, University of Padua 

 

 

 

Expected Bequests and Current Wealth in Share, Elsa and Hrs

 

 

 

 

 

10:15 am

EFCE

LEVON BARSEGHYAN, JEFFREY PRINCE and JOSHUA TEITELBAUM, Cornell University

 

 

 

Are Households' Choices Consistent? Evidence from Insurance Data

 

 

 

 

 

11:30 am

EFABG

ZHENG SONG, Fudan University

 

 

 

KJETIL STORESLETTEN, University of Oslo

 

 

 

FABRIZIO ZILIBOTTI, IEW-University of Zurich

 

 

 

Rotten Parents and Disciplined Children:  A Politico-Economic Theory of Public Expenditure and Debt

 

 

 

 

 

11:30 am

EFACR

FRANCISCO COVAS, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

 

SHIGERU FUJITA, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

 

 

 

Uninsured Investment Risks and the Approximate Aggregation

 

 

 

 

 

11:30 am

EFCE

NICK BLOOM, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

 

RAFFAELLA SADUN, London School of Economics

 

 

 

JOHN VAN REENEN, London School of Economics and NBER

 

 

 

Americans Do I.T. Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle

 

 

 

 

 

11:30 am

PRB

SINAN ARAL, MIT

 

 

 

ERIK BRYNJOLFSSON, MIT and NBER

 

 

 

D.J. WU, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

 

 

Which Came First, IT or Productivity?  A Virtuous Cycle of Investment and Use in Enterprise Systems

 

 

 

 

 

1:00 pm

EFEL

SIMON GILCHRIST, Boston University and NBER

 

 

 

EGON ZAKRAJSEK, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

 

Investment and the Cost of Capital: New Evidence from the Corporate Bond Market

 

 

 

 

 

 1:00 pm

EFRSW

BJORN BRUGEMANN, Yale University

 

 

 

What Quit and Layoff Patterns Reveal about the Efficiency of Turnover

 

 

 

 

 

1:30 pm

EFABG

JOANA NARITOMI, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

 

 

 

RODRIGO SOARES, University of Maryland and NBER

 

 

 

JULIANO ASSUNÇÃO, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

 

 

 

Rent Seeking and the Unveiling of ‘De Facto’ Institutions: Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil

 

 

 

 

 

1:30 pm

PRB

RAM C. ACHARYA, Industry Canada

 

 

 

Private and Social Rates of Return to R&D: How Different Are They across Industries?

 

 

 

 

 

 1:50 pm

EFRSW

JASON FABERMAN, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

 

 

EVA NAGYPAL, Northwestern University

 

 

 

The Effect of Quits on Worker Recruitment: Theory and Evidence

 

 

 

 

 

1:50 pm

EFEL

MARTIN BROWN, Swiss National Bank

 

 

 

TULLIO JAPPELLI and MARCO PAGANO, University of Napoli

 

 

 

Information Sharing and Credit: Firm-Level Evidence from Transition Countries

 

 

 

 

 

 2:40 pm

EFRSW

MARK AGUIAR, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

 

 

 

ERIK HURST, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

 

Re-Examining Life Cycle Expenditure

 

 

 

 

 

2:45 pm

EFABG

RODNEY RAMCHARAN, International Monetary Fund

 

 

 

Inequality and Redistribution: Evidence From US Counties and States, 1890-1930

 

 

 

 

 

2:55 pm

EFEL

KRISTOPHER GERARDI, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

 

 

 

HARVEY S. ROSEN, Princeton University and NBER

 

 

 

PAUL WILLEN, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and NBER

 

 

 

Do Households Benefit from Financial Deregulation and Innovation? The Case of the Mortgage Market

 

 

 

 

 

3:00 pm

PRB

LAARNI BULAN, PAROMA SANYAL and ZHIPENG YAN, Brandeis University

 

 

 

CEO Incentives and Firm Productivity

 

 

 

 

 

3:45 pm

EFEL

NOBU KIYOTAKI, Princeton University and NBER

 

 

 

ALEX MICHAELIDES, London School of Economics

 

 

 

KALIN NIKOLOV, Bank of England

 

 

 

Winners and Losers in Housing Markets

 

 

 

 

 

4:00 pm

EFABG

DIETRICH VOLLRATH, University of Houston

 

 

 

Inequality, Property Taxes, and Public Debt: The United States, 1880-1930

 

 

 

 

 

4:00 pm

EFRSW

NEZIH GUNER, REMZI KAYGUSUZ and GUSTAVO VENTURA, Pennsylvania State University

 

 

 

Taxation, Aggregates and the Household

 

 

 

 

 

 4:50 pm

EFRSW

RICHARD ROGERSON, Arizona State University and NBER

 

 

 

JOHANNA WALLENIUS, Arizona State University

 

 

 

Micro and Macro Elasticities in a Life Cycle Model with Taxes

 

 

 

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 19:

 

 

 

 

 

8:30 am

PRBB

RASMUS LENTZ, University of Wisconsin

 

 

 

DALE MORTENSON, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

 

An Empirical Model of Growth through Product Innovation

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

EFABG

ALBERTO ALESINA, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 

JOSEPH ZEIRA, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

 

 

Technology and Labor Regulations  

 

 

 

 

 

 9:00 am

EFACR

ERIK HURST, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

 

KERWIN CHARLES and NICK ROUSSANOV, University of Chicago

 

 

 

Conspicuous Consumption and Race

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

EFCE

ALEKSANDER BERENTSEN, University of Basel

 

 

 

GUIDO MENZIO, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 

RANDY WRIGHT, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

 

Inflation and Unemployment in the Long Run

 

 

 

 

 

10:00 am

PRBB

AMIL PETRIN, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

 

JAGADEESH SIVADASAN, University of Michigan

 

 

 

Job Security Does Affect Economic Efficiency: Theory, a New Statistic, and Evidence from Chile

 

 

 

 

 

10:15 am

EFABG

JESS BENHABIB and BOYAN JOVANOVIC, New York University and NBER

 

 

 

Optimal Migration: A World Perspective

 

 

 

 

 

10:15 am

EFACR

ALESSANDRO BUCCIOL, University of Padua

 

 

 

The Role of Temptation in Explaining Individual Behavior

 

10:15 am

EFCE

STEFANIA ALBANESI, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

 

ROC ARMENTER, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

 

 

Intertemporal Distortions in the Second Best

 

 

 

 

 

11:00 am

PRBB

PAUL BEAUDRY, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

 

 

DAVID A. GREEN and BENJAMIN SAND, University of British Columbia

 

 

 

Spill-Overs from Good Jobs

 

 

 

 

 

11:30 am

EFABG

MICHAL JERZMANOWSKI, Clemson University

 

 

 

MALHAR NABAR, Wellesley College

 

 

 

Financial Development and Wage Inequality: Theory and Evidence

 

 

 

 

 

11:30 am

EFACR

MARIA JOSE LUENGO PRADO, Northeastern University

 

 

 

DMYTRO HRYSHKO, University of Alberto

 

 

 

BENT SORENSEN, University of Houston

 

 

 

Childhood Determinants of Risk Aversion: The Long Shadow of Compulsory Education

 

 

 

 

 

11:30 am

EFCE

GEORGE-MARIOS ANGELETOS, MIT and NBER

 

 

 

ALESSANDRO PAVAN, Northwestern University

 

 

 

Policy for Economies with Dispersed Information

 

 

 

 

 

 1:00 pm

EFRSW

STEFANIA ALBANESI, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

 

CLAUDIA OLIVETTI, Boston University

 

 

 

Gender Roles and Technological Progress

 

 

 

 

 

1:00 pm

PRBB

BART VAN ARK, ROBERT INKLAAR, and MARCEL TIMMER, University of Groningen

 

 

 

Why is Productivity Growth in Europe still Slow?

 

 

 

 

 

 1:50 pm

EFRSW

XIMENA PENA, Georgetown University

 

 

 

Assortative Matching and the Education Gap

 

 

 

 

 

2:30 pm

 

ANDREA FINICELLI, PATRIZIO PAGANO and MASSIMO SBRACIA, Bank of Italy

 

 

 

Trade-Revealed TFP

 

 

 

 

 

 2:40 pm

EFRSW

LIMOR GOLAN and GEORGE-LEVI GAYLE, Carnegie Mellon University

 

 

 

Estimating a Dynamic Adverse-Selection Model: Labor Force Experience and the Changing Gender Earnings Gap

 

 

 

 

 

3:30 pm

PRBB

HÂLE UTAR, University of Colorado and Boulder

 

 

 

Import Competition and Employment Dynamics

 

 

 

 

 

 4:00 pm

EFRSW

ALESSANDRA FOGLI and LAURA VELDKAMP, New York University

 

 

 

The Geography of Labor Force Participation

 

 

 

 

 

 4:50 pm

EFRSW

Aubhik Khan, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

 

 

 

Julia Thomas, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and NBER

 

 

 

Idiosyncratic Shocks and the Role of Nonconvexities in Plant and Aggregate Investment Dynamics

 

 

 

 

 

FRIDAY, JULY 20:

 

 

 

 

 

 9:00 am

EFACR

MAURIZIO MASSOCCO, UC, Los Angeles

 

 

 

SHINTARO YAMAGUCHI, McMaster University

 

 

 

Labor Supply, Wealth Dynamics, and Marriage Decisions

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

EFCE

LEE OHANIAN, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

 

 

 

MARK WRIGHT, UC, Los Angeles

 

 

 

50 Years of International Capital Flows: Evidence and Tests of Theories

 

 

 

 

 

10:00 am

IO

Industry Roundtable on Research Issues in the Pharmaceutical Industry

 

 

 

IAN SPATZ, Merck and Co.(pharmaceutical manufacturer)

 

 

 

RICHARD MANNING, Pfizer, Inc. (pharmaceutical manufacturer)

 

 

 

MICHAEL POLLARD, Medco Health Solutions (pharmacy benefit manager)

 

 

 

MARCUS WILSON, Healthcore, Inc. (insurer)

 

 

 

 

 

10:15 am

EFACR

JOSEP PIJOAN-MAS and CLAUDIO MICHAELACCI, Centre for Monetary and Financial Studies

 

 

 

The Effects of Labor Market Conditions on Working Time: The US-EU Experience

 

 

 

 

 

10:15 am

EFCE

JULIO ROTEMBERG, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 

Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model

 

 

 

 

 

11:30 am

EFACR

JOHN KNOWLES, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 

Can Contraception Technology Explain Trends in Women's Occupational Choice?

 

 

 

 

 

11:30 am

EFCE

XAVIER GABAIX, New York University and NBER

 

 

 

A Simple, Unified, Exactly Solved Framework for Ten Puzzles in Macro-Finance

 

 

 

 

 

 1:00 pm

EFRSW

JAMES ALBRECHT, Georgetown University

 

 

 

FABIEN POSTEL-VINAY, CREST-INSEE

 

 

 

SUSAN VROMAN, Georgetown University

 

 

 

Albrecht-Axell Redux: Nonstationary Long-run Equilibria

 

 

 

 

 

1:00 pm

IO

CHENGHUAN SEAN CHU, Stanford University

 

 

 

PHILLIP LESLIE and ALAN SORENSON, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

 

Nearly Optimal Pricing for Multiproduct Firms

 

 

 

 

 

 1:50 pm

EFRSW

HYEOK JEONG and YONG KIM, University of Southern California

 

 

 

IOURII MANOVSKII, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 

Demographic Change and Relative Wages

 

 

 

 

 

2:30 pm

IO

ALBERTO SALVO, Northwestern University

 

 

 

Inferring Conduct under the Threat of Entry: The Case of the Brazilian Cement Industry

 

 2:40 pm

EFRSW

BOYAN JOVANOVIC, New York University and NBER

 

 

 

BALAZS SZENTES, University of Chicago

 

 

 

IPO Underpricing: Auctions vs. Book Building

 

 

 

 

 

4:00 pm

IO

TBA

 

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY, JULY 21:

 

 

 

 

 

9:15 am

IO

JOSHUA GANS, University of Melbourne

 

 

 

FRANK WOLAK, Stanford and NBER

 

 

 

A Comparison of Ex Ante vs. Ex Post Vertical Market Power: Evidence from Electricity

 

 

 

 

 

10:45 am

IO

RICARD GIL, Harvard University

 

 

 

FRANCINE LAFONTAINE, University of Michigan

 

 

 

The Role of Revenue Sharing in Movie Exhibition Contracts

 

 

 

 

 

1:15 pm

IO

CHRISTOPHER CONLON, Yale University

 

 

 

JULIE MORTIMER, Harvard and NBER

 

 

 

Demand Estimation under Incomplete Product Availability

 

 

 

 

 

2:45 pm

IO

ALI HORTAÇSU and CHAD SYVERSON, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

 

Vertical Integration and Production: Some Plant-Level Evidence