29th Annual Conference on Macroeconomics
Organized by Jonathan A. Parker and Michael Woodford
April 11-12, 2014
The Royal Sonesta Hotel

Friday, April 11

1

Quantifying the Lasting Harm to the U.S. Economy from the Financial Crisis

Robert E. Hall, Stanford University and NBER

2

Labor Market Polarization over the Business Cycle

Christopher Foote, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Richard Ryan, University of Michigan

3

Effective Monetary Policy Strategies in New Keynesian Models: A Re-examination

Hess Chung, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Edward P. Herbst, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Michael Kiley, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

4

Productivity and Potential Output Before, During, and After the Great Recession

John Fernald, INSEAD

5

Information Aggregation in a DSGE Model

Tarek Hassan, Boston University and NBER
Thomas Mertens, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

6

Whither News Shocks?

Robert Barsky, University of Michigan
Susanto Basu, Boston College and NBER
Keyoung Lee, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia