NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2010

 

Economic Fluctuations and Growth

Macro Perspectives Workshop

 

July 19 - 23, 2010

 

Richard Rogerson, Robert Shimer and Randall Wright, Organizers

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Parkview

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 19:

 

 

12:00 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

John Kennan, University of Wisconsin and NBER

 

Higher Education Subsidies and Human Capital Mobility

 

 

2:00 pm

A. Kerem Cosar, Pennsylvania State University

 

Nezih Guner, ICREA, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

 

James Tybout, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

 

Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy

 

 

3:00 pm

Break

 

 

3:30 pm

Aspen Gorry, UC, Santa Cruz

 

Minimum Wages and Youth Employment

 

 

4:30 pm

Alexander Gelber, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Joshua Mitchell, Harvard University

 

Taxes and Time Allocation: Evidence from Single Women and Men

 

 

5:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

TUESDAY, JULY 20:

 

 

12:00 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

Marcus Hagedorn, University of Zurich

 

Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Measuring the Returns to Tenure and Experience and the Effect of Search Frictions on Wage Dispersion

 

 

2:00 pm

Ronald Wolthoff, University of Chicago

 

Applications and Interviews: A Structural Analysis of Two-Sided Simultaneous Search

 

 

3:00 pm

Break

 

 

3:30 pm

Matthew Elliott, Stanford University

 

Search with Multilateral Bargaining

 

 

4:30 pm

Paul Beaudry, University of Oxford and NBER

 

David Green, University of British Columbia

 

Ben Sand, University of British Columbia

 

How Much is Employment Increased by Cutting Labor Costs?

 

 

5:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 21:

 

 

12:00 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

James Albrecht, Georgetown University

 

Fabien Postel-Vinay, University of Bristol

 

Susan Vroman, Georgetown University

 

An Equilibrium Search Model of Sales

 

 

2:00 pm

Guido Menzio, University of Pennsylvania

 

Irina Telyukova, UC, San Diego

 

Ludo Visschers, Simon Fraser University

 

Directed Search over the Life Cycle

 

 

3:00 pm

Break

 

 

3:30 pm

Suren Basov, La Trobe University

 

Ian King, University of Melbourne

 

Lawrence Uren, University of Melbourne

 

The Employed, the Unemployed, and the Unemployable: Directed Search with Worker Heterogeneity

 

 

4:30 pm

Manolis Galenianos, Pennsylvania State University

 

Hiring through Referrals

 

 

5:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

6:00 pm

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

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 22:

 

 

12:00 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

Robert Shimer, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Investment Frictions and Wage Rigidities: Preliminary Notes

 

 

2:00 pm

Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Etienne Wasmer, Science-Po Paris

 

The Cyclical Volatility of Labor Markets under Frictional Financial Markets

 

 

3:00 pm

Lunch

 

 

3:30 pm

Eran Yashiv, Tel Aviv University

 

On The Joint Behavior of Hiring and Investment

 

 

4:30 pm

Boragan Aruoba, University of Maryland

 

Informal Sector, Government Policy and Institutions

 

 

5:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

FRIDAY, JULY 23:

 

 

12:00 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University

 

Ivan Werning, MIT and NBER

 

Insurance and Taxation over the Life Cycle

 

 

2:00 pm

Leo Kaas, University of Konstanz

 

Philipp Kircher, University of Oxford

 

Efficient Firm Dynamics in a Frictional Labor Market

 

 

3:00 pm

Ija Trapeznikova, Northwestern University

 

Employment Adjustment and Labor Utilization

 

 

4:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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