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NATIONAL
BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC. |
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Economic
Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting |
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Per
Krusell and Monika Piazzesi, Organizers |
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February
8, 2008 |
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Federal
Reserve Bank of New York |
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33 Liberty
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New York,
NY |
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PROGRAM |
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7: |
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6:30 pm |
Reception and Dinner, Federal
Reserve Bank of New York |
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8: |
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8:30 am |
Continental Breakfast |
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9:00 am |
Gauti Eggertsson, Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
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Was the New Deal Contractionary? |
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Critic: Marvin
Goodfriend, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER |
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10:00 am |
Coffee Break |
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10:30 am |
Alejandro Justiniano, Federal Reserve Board |
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Giorgio Primiceri, Northwestern
University and NBER
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Andrea Tambalotti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
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Investment Shocks and Business Cycles |
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Critic: Frank
Schorfheide, University of Pennsylvania and NBER |
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11:30 am |
Marco Battaglini, Princeton University |
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Stephen Coate, Cornell University and
NBER
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Fiscal Policy over the Real Business Cycle: A Positive Theory |
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Critic: Marco Bassetto,
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and NBER |
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12:30 pm |
Lunch |
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1:30 pm |
Matthew Chambers, Towson University |
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Carlos Garriga, Federal Reserve Bank of
St. Louis
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Donald Schlagenhauf, Florida State
University |
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Accounting for Changes in the Homeownership Rate |
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Critic: Dirk Krueger,
University of Pennsylvania and NBER |
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2:30 pm |
Coffee Break |
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3:00 pm |
Mark Huggett, Georgetown University |
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Gustavo Ventura, University of Iowa |
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Amir Yaron, University of Pennsylvania and NBER |
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Sources of Lifetime Inequality |
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Critic: Luigi
Pistaferri, Stanford University |
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4:00 pm |
Chang-Tai Hsieh, UC, Berkeley and NBER |
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Peter Klenow, Stanford University and NBER |
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Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India |
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Critic: Samuel Kortum,
University of Minnesota and NBER |
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5:00 pm |
Adjourn |
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1/21/08 |
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