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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting

Mark Bils and Julio Rotemberg, Organizers

 

July 11, 2009

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Grand Ballroom A

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, JULY 10:

 

 

6:30 pm

Reception and Dinner - Riverfront Room

 

 

SATURDAY, JULY 11:

 

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

Anthony Smith, Yale University

 

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

 

 

 

Critic:  Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

10:00 am

Coffee Break

 

 

10:30 am

Robert Barro, Harvard University and NBER

Emi Nakamura, Columbia University and NBER

Jon Steinsson, Columbia University and NBER

Jose Ursua, Harvard University

 

Crises and Recoveries in an Empirical Model of Consumption Disasters

 

 

 

Critic:  Timothy Cogley, New York University

 

 

11:30 am

James Kahn, University of Pennsylvania

 

What Drives Housing Prices?

 

 

 

Critic:  Monika Piazzesi, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch – Grand Ballroom B

 

 

1:30 pm

Roland Benabou, Princeton University and NBER

Groupthink: Collective Delusions in Organizations and Markets

 

 

 

Critic:  Thomas Phillipon, New York University and NBER

 

 

2:30 pm

Coffee Break

 

 

3:00 pm

Olivier Blanchard, MIT and NBER

Jean-Paul L’Huillier, MIT

 

Guido Lorenzoni, MIT and NBER

 

News, Noise, and Fluctuations:  An Empirical Exploration

 

 

 

Critic:  Eric Sims, University of Notre Dame

 

 

4:00 pm

Melissa Dell, MIT

Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University and NBER 

 

Benjamin Olken, MIT and NBER

 

Climate Shocks and Economic Growth:  Evidence from the Last Half Century

 

 

 

Critic:  Fabrizio Perri, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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