NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2005

 

Economic Fluctuations and Growth

Growth Meeting

 

Chad Jones and Pete Klenow, Organizers

 

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

July 15, 2005

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY,  JULY 15:

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

RODOLFO MANUELLI and  ANANTH SESHADRI, University of Wisconsin

 

Human Capital and the Wealth of Nations

 

 

 

Discussant: MARK BILS, University of Rochester and NBER

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

ARIEL BURSTEIN, UC, Los Angeles

 

ALEXANDER MONGE-NARANJO, Northwestern University

 

Aggregate Consequences of International Firms in of Developing Countries

 

 

 

Discussant: ESTEBAN ROSSI-HANSBERG, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

11:15 am

RUI CASTRO, University of Montreal

 

GIAN-LUCA CLEMENTI, New York University

 

GLENN MACDONALD, Washington University

 

Legal Institutions, Sectoral Heterogeneity, and Economic Development

 

 

 

Discussant: FRANCESCO CASELLI, London School of Economics and NBER

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:15 pm

AMARTYA LAHIRI, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

KEI-MU YI, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

 

A Tale of Two States: Maharashtra and West Bengal

 

 

 

Discussant: ABHIJIT BANERJEE, MIT

 

 

 2:15 pm

Break

 

 

 2:30 pm

JOSEPH ZEIRA, Hebrew University

 

Machines as Engines of Growth

 

 

 

Discussant: SUSANTO BASU, University of Michigan and NBER

 

 

 3:30 pm

DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER

 

VERONICA GUERRIERII, MIT

 

Capital Deepening and Non-Balanced Economic Growth

 

 

 

Discussant: JOHN LAITNER, University of Michigan

 

 

 4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

6/2/05