NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting

Janice Eberly and Giuseppe Moscarini, Organizers

 

October 17, 2008

 

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

230 South LaSalle Street

Chicago, Illinois

 

PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16:

 

 

6:30 pm

Reception and Dinner – Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 

 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17:

 

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

ROBERT BARSKY, University of Michigan and NBER

 

ERIC SIMS, University of Michigan

 

Information, Animal Spirits, and the Meaning of Innovations in Consumer Confidence

 

 

 

Critic:  JOHN COCHRANE, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

10:00 am

Coffee Break

 

 

10:30 am

EMMANUEL FARHI, Harvard University and NBER  

IVAN WERNING, MIT and NBER

 

The Political Economy of Nonlinear Capital Taxation

 

 

 

Critic:  NARAYANA KOCHERLAKOTA, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER

 

 

11:30 am

CHARLES JONES, UC, Berkeley and NBER

Intermediate Goods and Weak Links:  A Theory of Economic Development

 

 

 

Critic:  RICHARD ROGERSON, Arizona State University and NBER

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:30 pm

STEVEN DAVIS, University of Chicago and NBER

 

R. JASON FABERMAN, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

 

JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland and NBER

 

RON JARMIN, U.S. Census Bureau

 

JAVIER MIRANDA, U.S. Census Bureau

 

Business Volatility, Job Destruction, and Unemployment

 

 

 

Critic:  RUEDIGER BACHMANN, University of Michigan

 

 

2:30 pm

Coffee Break

 

 

3:00 pm

ARVIND KRISHNAMURTHY, Northwestern University and NBER

ANNETTE VISSING-JORGENSEN, Northwestern University and NBER

 

The Aggregate Demand for Treasury Debt

 

 

 

Critic:  HENNING BOHN, UC, Santa Barbara

 

 

4:00 pm

MICHAEL WOODFORD, Columbia University and NBER

Information-Constrained State-Dependent Pricing

 

 

 

Critic:  ARIEL BURSTEIN, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

 

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9/22/08