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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SI 2012 Aggregate Implications of Micro

 

Orazio Attanasio, Christopher D. Carroll, and Jose-Victor Rios-Rull, Organizers

 

July 16-20, 2012

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Charles B

40 Edwin Land Boulevard

Cambridge, MA

 

PROGRAM

 

 

Monday, July 16


8:30 am


Coffee and pastries


9:00 am


Andrea Caggese, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Ander Perez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Aggregate Implications of Financial and Labor Market Frictions


9:45 am


David Berger, Yale University
Joe Vavra, Yale University
Consumption Dynamics During the Great Recession


10:30 am


Break


10:45 am


Nils Gornemann, University of Pennsylvania
Keith Kuester, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Makoto Nakajima, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Agents


11:30 am


Marcus Hagedorn, University of Zurich
Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Search Frictions and Wage Dispersion


12:15 pm


Lunch

Tuesday, July 17


8:30 am


Coffee and pastries


9:00 am


Mariacristina De Nardi, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and NBER
Eric French, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
John Bailey Jones, State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany
Medicaid Insurance in Old Age


9:45 am


Loretti I. Dobrescu, University of New South Wales
To love or to pay: Savings and health care in older age


10:30 am


Break


10:45 am


Xavier Gabaix, New York University and NBER
Sparse Dynamic Programming and Aggregate Fluctuations


11:30 am


Jose-Victor Rios-Rull University of Minnesota and NBER
The Paradox of Thrift


12:15 pm


Lunch


Wednesday, July 18


8:30 am


Coffee and pastries


9:00 am


Makoto Nakajima, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Irina Telyukova, University of California at San Diego
"Housing in Retirement: A Cross-Country Analysis"


9:45 am


Lee Lockwood, NBER
Incidental Bequests: Bequest Motives and the Choice to Self-Insure Late-Life Risks


10:30 am


Break


10:45 am


Michelle T. Rendall, University of Zurich
Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota and NBER
Emancipation through Education


11:30 am


Arpad Abraham, European University Institute
Sarolta Laczo, University of California at Los Angeles
Efficient Risk Sharing with Limited Commitment and Hidden Storage


12:15 pm


Lunch


6:00 pm


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


Thursday, July 19


8:30 am


Coffee and pastries


9:00 am


Alessandro Mennuni
Labor Force Composition and Aggregate Fluctuations


9:45 am


Nicola Pavoni, Bocconi University
Valerio Ercolani, Bank of Portugal
The Precautionary Effect of Government Expenditures on Private Consumption


10:30 am


Break


10:45 am


Andrew Glover, University of Minnesota
Jake Short, University of Western Ontario
Bankruptcy, Incorporation and the Nature of Entrepreneurial Risk


11:30 am


Hector F. Calvo-Pardo, University of Southampton, UK
Luc Arrondel, CNRS-PSE
Derya Tas, University of Southampton
Subjective Return Expectations, Information and Stock Market Participation: Evidence from France


12:15 pm


Lunch


Friday, July 20


8:30 am


Coffee and pastries


9:00 am


Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota and NBER
Serdar Ozkan, Federal Reserve Board
Jae Song, Social Security Administration
The Nature of Countercyclical Income Risk


9:45 am


Rachel Griffith, Institute For Fiscal Studies
Martin O'Connell, Institute For Fiscal Studies
Kate Smith, Institute For Fiscal Studies
Household Food Purchasing Behaviour, Income, and Nutrition


10:30 am


Break


10:45 am


German Cubas, Central Bank of Uruguay
Pedro Silos, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
The Risk Premium in Labor Markets


11:30 am


William Hawkins, University of Rochester
Jose Mustre-del-Rio, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Financial Frictions and Occupational Mobility


12:15 pm


Lunch