EF&G Research Meeting
Organized by Paul Beaudry and John V. Leahy
October 26, 2012
New York, NY

Friday, October 26

1

The Allocation of Talent and U.S. Economic Growth

Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago and NBER
Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER
Charles I. Jones, Stanford University and NBER
Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University and NBER

2

Measuring the Effect of the Zero Lower Bound on Medium- and Longer-Term Interest Rates

Eric T.. Swanson, University of California, Irvine and NBER
John Williams, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

3

The Role of Automatic Stabilizers in the U.S. Business Cycle

Alisdair McKay, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Ricardo Reis, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)