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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting

Andrew Atkeson and Harald Uhlig, Organizers

 

February 5, 2010

 

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

101 Market Street

San Francisco, California

 

PROGRAM

 

 

 

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5:

 

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

Francois Gourio, Boston University and NBER

 

Disaster Risk and Business Cycles

 

 

 

Critic:  David Backus, New York University and NBER  slides

 

 

10:00 am

Coffee Break

 

 

10:30 am

Veronica Guerrieri, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Daniel Hartley, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

 

Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Endogenous Gentrification and Housing Price Dynamics

 

 

 

Critic:  Morris Davis, University of Wisconsin  slides

 

 

11:30 am

Jack Favilukis, London School of Economics

 

Sydney Ludvigson, New York University and NBER

 

Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, New York University and NBER

 

The Macroeconomic Effects of Housing Wealth, Housing Finance, and Limited Risk-Sharing in General Equilibrium

 

 

 

Critic:  Monika Piazzesi, Stanford University and NBER  slides

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:30 pm

YiLi Chien, Purdue University

 

Harold Cole, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Hanno Lustig, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

 

Is the Volatility of the Market Price of Risk due to Intermittent Portfolio Re-Balancing?

 

 

 

Critic:  Fernando Alvarez, University of Chicago and NBER  slides

 

 

2:30 pm

Coffee Break

 

 

3:00 pm

Ricardo Lagos, New York University

Guillaume Rocheteau, UC, Irvine

 

Pierre-Olivier Weill, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

 

Crises and Liquidity in Over-the-Counter Markets

 

 

 

Critic:  Randall Wright, University of Wisconsin and NBER  slides

 

 

4:00 pm

Christopher Erceg, Federal Reserve Board

 

Jesper Linde, Federal Reserve Board

 

Is There a Fiscal Free Lunch in a Liquidity Trap?

 

 

 

Critic:  Varadarajan Chari, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

5:15 pm

Reception and Dinner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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