Economic Fluctuations and Growth Program Meeting

Giovanni L. Violante and Iván Werning, Organizers

July 11, 2015

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Saturday, July 11
9:00 am
9:00 am
Charles I. Jones, Stanford University and NBER
Jihee Kim, KAIST

A Schumpeterian Model of Top Income Inequality
10:30 am
10:30 am
Gita Gopinath, International Monetary Fund
Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, University of Maryland and NBER
Loukas Karabarbounis, University of Minnesota and NBER
Carolina Villegas-Sanchez, ESADE Business School

Capital Allocation and Productivity in South Europe
11:30 am
11:30 am
Gary B. Gorton, Yale University and NBER
Guillermo Ordonez, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Good Booms, Bad Booms
1:30 pm
1:30 pm
Holger Mueller, New York University and NBER
Xavier Giroud, Columbia University and NBER

Firm Leverage and Unemployment during the Great Recession
1:30 pm
Xavier Giroud, Columbia University and NBER
Holger Mueller, New York University and NBER

Firm Leverage and Unemployment during the Great Recession
3:00 pm
Marcus Hagedorn, University of Oslo
Jessie Handbury, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Demand Stimulus, Inflation and Marginal Costs: Empirical Evidence
4:00 pm
4:00 pm
Martin Beraja, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER
Juan Ospina, Central Bank of Colombia

The Aggregate Implications of Regional Business Cycles