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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

32nd Annual Conference on Macroeconomics

Jonathan Parker and Martin S. Eichenbaum, Organizers

April 7-8, 2017

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin Land Boulevard
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

 

Friday, April 7

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

Charles Manski, Northwestern University and NBER

Survey Measurement Of Probabilistic Economic Expectations: Progress And Promise

Discussants: Andrew Caplin, New York University and NBER

 

Lars Hansen, University of Chicago and NBER

10:30 am

Break

11:00 am

John H. Cochrane, Stanford University and NBER
Michelson-Morley, Occam and Fisher:  The Radical Implications of Stable Inflation at Near-Zero Interest Rates

Discussants: Lawrence
Christiano, Northwestern University and NBER

 

Ricardo Reis, London School of Economics and NBER

12:30 pm

Lunch

Lunch Panel:  

Economic Implications of Changes in Financial Regulation

 

Karen Dynan, Harvard University

Lisa Emsbo-Mattingly, Fidelity

Jeremy Stein, Harvard University and NBER

2:30 pm

Steven N. Durlauf, University of Wisconsin at Madison and NBER
Ananth Seshadri, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Understanding the Great Gatsby Curve

Discussants: Roland
Benabou, Princeton University and NBER

 

Kevin Murphy, University of Chicago and NBER

4:00 pm

Break

4:30 pm

Manuel Adelino, Duke University

Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Felipe Severino, Dartmouth College

Dynamics of Housing Debt in the Recent Boom and Bust

Discussants: Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Giovanni Violante, New York University and NBER

6:00 pm

Adjourn

6:30 pm

Reception and Group Dinner

Dinner Speaker: Olivier Blanchard, Peterson Institute for International Economics and NBER


Saturday, April 8

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

Efraim Benmelech, Northwestern University and NBER

Nittai Bergman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Credit Market Freezes

Discussants: V.V. Chari, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

Raghu Rajan, University of Chicago and NBER

10:30 am

Break

11:00 am

SeHyoun Ahn, Princeton University

Greg Kaplan, University of Chicago and NBER
Benjamin Moll, Princeton University and NBER
Thomas Winberry, University of Chicago
Christian Wolf, Princeton University
When Inequality Matters for Macro and Macro Matters for Inequality

Discussants:
Christopher Carroll, Johns Hopkins University and NBER

 

Per Krusell, Stockholm University and NBER

12:30 pm

Adjourn