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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

28th Annual Conference on Macroeconomics

Jonathan Parker and Michael Woodford, Organizers

April 12-13, 2013

The Royal Sonesta Hotel

Riverfront Room

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Participant list

Friday, April 12:
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Elena Asparouhova, University of Utah Peter Bossaerts, California Institute of Technology Nilanjan Roy, California Institute of Technology William Zame, University of California at Los Angeles Experiments on the Lucas Asset Pricing Model Discussants: Ramon Marimon, European University Institute and NBER Jose Scheinkman, Princeton University and NBER
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Venky Venkateswaran, Pennsylvania State University Randall Wright, University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER Pledgability and Liquidity: A New Monetarist Model of Financial and Macroeconomic Activity Discussants: V. V. Chari, University of Minnesota and NBER Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics
12:30 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm	Paul Beaudry, University of British Columbia and NBER Franck Portier, Toulouse School of Economics Understanding Non Inflationary Demand Driven Business Cycles Discussants: Giorgio Primiceri, Northwestern University and NBER Martin Uribe, Columbia University and NBER
3:30 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Martin Lettau, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Sydney Ludvigson, New York University and NBER Shocks and Crashes Discussants: John Campbell, Harvard University and NBER Mark Watson, Princeton University and NBER
5:30 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Group Dinner – Royal Sonesta Hotel Dinner Speaker – Christina Romer, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Saturday, April 13:
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Francesco Bianchi, Duke University Leonardo Melosi, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Dormant Shocks and Fiscal Virtue Discussants: Bruce Preston, Monash University and NBER Chris Sims, Princeton University and NBER
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Kfir Eliaz, Brown University Rani Spiegler, Tel Aviv University Reference Dependence and Labor-Market Fluctuations Discussants: Robert Hall, Stanford University and NBER Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University and NBER
12:30 pm	Adjourn