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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2013 Income Distribution and Macroeconomics

Roland Benabou, Oded Galor, and Fabrizio Zilibotti, Organizers

July 16-18, 2013

Royal Sonesta Hotel
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

 

Tuesday, July 16 (Skyline Rooms)


Political economy (Joint session with the Political Economy Program)


2:30 pm


Alberto Alesina, Harvard University and NBER
Bryony Reich, University College London
Nation Building

3:30 pm

Break

3:45 pm

Paolo Buonanno, University of Bergamo
Ruben Durante, Sciences Po
Giovanni Prarolo, University of Bologna
Paolo Vanin, University of Bologna
Poor Institutions, Rich Mines: Resource Curse in the Origins of the Sicilian Mafia

4:45 pm

Break

5:00 pm

Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Georgy Egorov, Northwestern University and NBER
Konstantin Sonin, New Economic School
Political Economy in a Changing World


6:00 pm


Adjourn


7:00 pm


Group Dinner – Legal Seafood, Kendall Square

Wednesday, July 17 (University BC Meeting Room)


8:30 am


Coffee and Pastries


Long-run development and cross-country income inequality


9:00 am


Eren Arbatli, Sabanci University
Quamrul Ashraf, Brown University
Oded Galor, Brown University and NBER
The Nature of Civil Conflicts


10:00 am


Break


10:15 am


Diego A. Comin, Harvard University and NBER
Marti Mestieri Ferrer, Toulouse School of Economics
If Technology has Arrived Everywhere, Why has Income Diverged?


11:15 am


Break


11:30 am


Anastasia Litina, University of Luxembourg
Natural Land Productivity, Cooperation and Comparative Development


12:30 pm


Lunch


Social interactions


1:30 pm


Raquel Fernández, New York University and NBER
Joyce C. Wong, New York University
Divorce Risk, Wages, and Working Wives: A Quantitative Life-Cycle Analysis of Women's Labor Force Participation:


2:30 pm


Break


2:45 pm


Yann Algan, Sciences Po
Jerome Hergueux, Harvard University
Yochai Benkler, Harvard University
Cooperation in a Peer-Production Economy: Experimental Evidence from Wikipedia:


3:45 pm


Break


4:00 pm


Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago and NBER
Adair Morse, University of Chicago and NBER
Trickle-Down Consumption:


5:00 pm


Adjourn


6:00 pm


Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel

Thursday, July 18 (Room University BC)


8:30 am


Coffee and Pastries


Growth, inequality, and welfare in economic transition (China and Russia)


9:00 am


Zheng Michael Song, University of Chicago
Kjetil Storesletten, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Yikai Wang,University of Zurich
Fabrizio Zilibotti, University of Zurich
Sharing High Growth Across Generations: Pensions and Demographic Transition in China


10:00 am


Break

 

10:15 am


Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Xin Meng, Australian National University

Tommaso Porzio, Yale University

Nancy Qian, Yale University and NBER

Demographic Change and Household Savings: Evidence from China


11:15 am


Break


11:30 am


Anton Cheremukhin, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Mikhail Golosov, Princeton University and NBER
Sergei Guriev, New Economic School
Aleh Tsyvinski, Yale University and NBER
Was Stalin Necessary for Russia’s Economic Development??


12:30 pm


Lunch


Wages, employment, and macroeconomic policy


1:30 pm


Simeon D. Alder, University of Notre Dame
David Lagakos, Arizona State University and NBER
Lee E. Ohanian, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
The Decline of the U.S Rust Belt: A Macroeconomic Analysis:


2:30 pm


Alisdair McKay, Boston University
Ricardo Reis, Columbia University and NBER
The Role of Automatic Stabilizers in the U.S. Business Cycle  


3:30 pm


Break


3:45 pm


Pascal Michaillat, London School of Econimics
Emmanuel Saez, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
A Model of Aggregate Demand and Unemployment:


4:45 pm


Thomas Piketty, Paris School of Economics
Gabriel Zucman, Paris School of Economics
Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries 1700-2010


5:45 pm


Adjourn