NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC

 

 

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2010

 

 

 

Price Dynamics Workshop

 

 

 

Robert Hall and Nir Jaimovich, Organizers

 

 

 

July 15 and 16, 2010

 

 

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

University BC

 

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

 

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

 

 

PROGRAM

 

  

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 14:

 

 

 

 

6:00 pm

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

 

 

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 15:

 

 

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

Susan E. Woodward, Sand Hill Econometrics, Inc

 

 

Robert E. Hall, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

Diagnosing Consumer Confusion and Sub-Optimal Shopping Effort: Theory and Mortgage-Market Evidence

 

 

 

 

10:00 am

Allen Head and Lucy Qian Lui, Queen's University

 

 

Guido Menzio and Randall Wright, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

Sticky Prices: Equilibrium Price Dispersion and Rigidity

 

 

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

 

 

11:15 am

Igal Hendel, Northwestern University

 

 

Aviv Nevo, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

A Simple Model of Demand Anticipation

 

 

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

 

 

FRIDAY, JULY 16:

 

 

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

Judith Chevalier, Yale University and NBER

 

 

Anil K. Kashyap, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

Best Prices

 

 

 

 

10:00 am

Fernando E. Alvarez, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

Francesco Lippi, University of Sassari

 

 

Luigi Paciello, EIEF

 

 

Optimal Price Setting under Observation and Menu Costs

 

 

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

 

 

11:15 am

Pierre Dubois, Toulouse School of Economics

 

 

Helena Perrone, University Pompeu Fabra

 

 

Price Dispersion and Search Costs: The Roles of Imperfect Information and Product Di¤erentiation

 

 

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch and Adjourn