Economic Fluctuations and Growth Program Meeting
Organized by Fernando E. Alvarez and Emi Nakamura
July 16, 2016
Royal Sonesta Hotel

Saturday, July 16

9:00 am

Fiscal Policy and Debt Management with Incomplete Markets

Anmol P. Bhandari, University of Minnesota and NBER
David Evans, University of Oregon
Mikhail Golosov, University of Chicago and NBER
Thomas J. Sargent, New York University and NBER

10:30 am

The Limited Macroeconomic Effects of Unemployment Benefit Extensions

Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University and NBER
Loukas Karabarbounis, University of Minnesota and NBER

11:30 am

Explaining Consumption Excess Sensitivity with Near-Rationality: Evidence from Large Predetermined Payments

Lorenz Kueng, Swiss Finance Institute

1:00 pm

Consumption and House Prices in the Great Recession

Greg Kaplan, University of Chicago and NBER
Kurt Mitman, CEMFI
Giovanni L. Violante, Princeton University and NBER

2:00 pm

Behavioral Macroeconomics via Sparse Dynamic Programming

Xavier Gabaix, Harvard University and NBER

4:00 pm

Uncertainty and Business Cycles: Exogenous Impulse or Endogenous Response?

Sydney C. Ludvigson, New York University and NBER
Sai Ma, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Serena Ng, Columbia University and NBER