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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2009

 

Economic Fluctuations and Growth

Macro Perspectives Workshop

 

July 13 – 17, 2009

 

Richard Rogerson, Robert Shimer and Randall Wright, Organizers

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Parkview Room

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 13:

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

ROBERT HALL, Stanford University and NBER

 

Wage Formation between Newly Hired Workers and Employers: Survey Evidence

 

(joint with Alan Krueger)

 

 

 2:00 pm

LEENA RUDANKO, Boston University

 

Customer Capital

 

(joint with Francois Gourio)

 

 

 3:00 pm

Break

 

 

 3:30 pm

IOANA MARINESCU, University of Chicago

 

Labor Market Shocks and Marriage Duration

 

 

 4:30 pm

DALE MORTENSEN, Northwestern University and NBER

 

Wage Dispersion in the Search and Matching Model with Intrafirm Bargaining

 

 

 5:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

TUESDAY, JULY 14:

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

GIUSEPPE MOSCARINI, Yale University and NBER

 

Large Employers Are More Cyclically Sensitive

 

(joint with Fabein Postel-Vinay)

 

 

 2:00 pm

YONGSUNG CHANG, University of Rochester

 

Comparative Advantage and Unemployment

 

(joint with Mark Bils)

 

 

 3:00 pm

Break

 

 

 3:30 pm

BJORN BRUEGEMANN, Yale University

 

IOURRI MANOVSKII, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Fragility: A Quantitative Analysis of the US Health Insurance System

 

 

 4:30 pm

ROBERT SHIMER, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Unemployment and Human Capital

 

(Joint with Fernando Alvarez)

 

 

 5:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 15:

 

 

 12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

FABRIZIO PERRI, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

Unequal We Stand: Empirical Analysis of Economic Inequality in the US 1967-2006

 

(joint with Gianluca Violante and Jonathon Heathcote)

 

 

 2:00 pm

ALAIN DELACROIX, University of Quebec

 

Joint Determination of Product and Labor Market Policies in a Model of Rent Creation and Division

 

(joint with Roberto Samaniego)

 

 

 3:00 pm

Break

 

 

 3:30 pm

LIMOR GOLAN, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Promotion, Turnover and Compensation in the Executive Market

 

(joint with George-Levi Gayle and Robert Miller)

 

 

 4:30 pm

PHILIP KIRCHER, University of Pennsylvania

 

IOURRI MANOVSKII, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

The U-Shapes of Occupational Mobility

 

 

 5:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 16:

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

MARCELO VERACIERTO, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 

Establishment Dynamics, Vacancies and Unemployment: A Neoclassical Synthesis

 

 

 

 

 2:00 pm

RASMUS LENTZ, University of Wisconsin and NBER

 

Labor Market Friction, Firm Heterogeneity, and Aggregate Employment and Productivity

 

(joint with Dale Mortensen)

 

 

 3:00 pm

Lunch

 

 

 3:30 pm

EMANUELA CARDIA, University of Montreal

 

PAUL GOMME, Concordia University

 

The Household Revolution: Childcare, Housework, and Female Labor Force Participation

 

 

 4:30 pm

GUEORGUI KAMBOUROV, University of Toronto

 

The Heterogeneity and Dynamics of Individual Labor Supply over the Life-Cycle: Facts and Theory

 

(joint with Andres Erosa and Luisa Fuster)

 

 

 5:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

FRIDAY, JULY 17:

 

 

 12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

LAWRENCE UREN, University of Melbourne

 

Skill Requirements, Search Frictions and Wage Inequality

 

(joint with Gabor Virag)

 

 

 2:00 pm

DENNIS SNOWER, Kiel Institute

 

CHRISTIAN MERKL, Kiel Institute

 

An Incentive Theory of Matching

 

(joint with Alessio Brown)

 

 

  3:00 pm

ETIENNE WASMER, IZA

 

A Model of a Nonwalrasian Economy with Three Imperfect Markets: Some Economics of Multifrictional Economies

 

 

 4:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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