Economic Fluctuations and Growth Program Meeting

Fernando E. Alvarez and Emi Nakamura, Organizers

July 16, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Saturday, July 16
9:00 am
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

Fiscal Policy and Debt Management with Incomplete Markets
10:30 am
Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University and NBER
Loukas Karabarbounis, University of Minnesota and NBER

The Limited Macroeconomic Effects of Unemployment Benefit Extensions
11:30 am
Lorenz Kueng, University of Lugano

Explaining Consumption Excess Sensitivity with Near-Rationality: Evidence from Large Predetermined Payments
1:00 pm
Greg Kaplan, University of Chicago and NBER
Kurt Mitman, Institute for International Economic Studies
Giovanni L. Violante, Princeton University and NBER

Consumption and House Prices in the Great Recession
2:00 pm
Xavier Gabaix, Harvard University and NBER

Behavioral Macroeconomics via Sparse Dynamic Programming
4:00 pm
Sydney C. Ludvigson, New York University and NBER
Sai Ma, Federal Reserve Board
Serena Ng, Columbia University and NBER

Uncertainty and Business Cycles: Exogenous Impulse or Endogenous Response?