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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

EF&G Research Meeting

Robert Shimer and Michael Woodford, Organizers

February 7, 2014

Federal Reserve Bank of New York
33 Liberty Street
10th Floor, Benjamin Strong Room
New York, NY

PROGRAM

 

Thursday, February 6:

6:30 pm

Group Dinner
Federal Reserve Bank of New York (participants must enter at 44 Maiden Lane)
1st Floor, Liberty Room

Friday, February 7:

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast


9:00 am


Charles Carlstrom, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Timothy Fuerst, University of Notre Dame
Matthias Paustian, Federal Reserve Board
Targeting Long Rates in a Model with Segmented Markets

Discussant:  Mark Gertler, New York University and NBER

10:00 am

Break


10:30 am


Fernando Alvarez, University of Chicago and NBER
Herve Le Bihan, Banque de France
Francesco Lippi,
EIEF
Small and Large Price Changes and the Propagation of Monetary Shocks

Discussant:  Virgiliu Midrigan, New York University and NBER


11:30 am


Bill Dupor, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Rong Li, Ohio State University
The 2009 Recovery Act and the Expected Inflation Channel of Government Spending

Discussant:  Gauti Eggertsson, Brown University and NBER

12:30 pm

Lunch - 1st Floor, Liberty Room


1:30 pm


Roger Farmer, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
Carine Nourry, University of the Mediterranean
Alain Venditti, University of the Mediterranean
The Inefficient Markets Hypothesis: Why Financial Markets Do Not Work Well in the Real World

Discussant:  Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Princeton University and NBER

2:30 pm

Break


3:00 pm


Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University
Loukas Karabarbounis, University of Chicago and NBER
The Cyclicality of the Opportunity Cost of Employment

Discussant:  Robert Hall, Stanford University and NBER


4:00 pm


Anna Orlik, Federal Reserve Board
Laura Veldkamp, New York University and NBER
Understanding Uncertainty Shocks and the Role of Black Swans

Discussant:  Jennifer La'O, Columbia University and NBER

5:00 pm

Adjourn



Participant List