Economic Fluctuations and Growth Program Meeting

Fernando E. Alvarez and Emi Nakamura, Organizers

July 16, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel

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, Swiss Finance Institute 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 of Governors Serena Ng, Columbia University and NBER Uncertainty and Business Cycles: Exogenous Impulse or Endogenous Response?