NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2005

NBER Economic Fluctuations and Growth

Macro Perspectives Workshop

July 18 – 22, 2005

Richard Rogerson, Robert Shimer and Randall Wright, Organizers

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

MONDAY, JULY 18:
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	FERNANDO ALVAREZ, University of Chicago and NBER
	MARCELO VERACIERTO, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
	Firing Taxes and Temporary Contracts in an Equilibrium Search Model
2:00 pm	STEVEN DAVIS, University of Chicago and NBER
	R. JASON FABERMAN, Bureau of Labor Statistics
	JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland and NBER
	The Flow Appproach to Labor Markets: New Data Sources, Micro-Macro Links and the Recent Downturn
3:00 pm	Break
3:15 pm	ROBERT SHIMER, University of Chicago and NBER
	On the Job Search and Strategic Bargaining
4:15 pm	ROBERT HALL, Stanford University and NBER
	The Amplification of Unemployment Fluctuations Through Self-Selection
5:15 pm	Adjourn
TUESDAY, JULY 19:
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	JAMES ALBRECHT and SUSAN VROMAN, Georgetown University
	Modeling the Effects of Labor Market reforms in a Developing Economy
2:00 pm	GADI BARLEVY, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and NBER
	Using Search Models to Estimate the Returns to Tenure
3:00 pm	Break
3:15 pm	JOHN KNOWLES and ANDY POSTLEWAITE, University of Pennsylvania
	Do Children Learn to Save from their Parents?
4:15 pm	RANDALL WRIGHT, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
	The Market for Ideas
5:15 pm	Adjourn
WEDNESSDAY, JULY 20:
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	RASMUS LENTZ, Boston University
	DALE MORTENSEN, Northwestern University
	An Empirical Model of Growth Through Product Innovation
2:00 pm	STEFANIA ALBANESI, Duke University
	CLAUDIA OLIVETTI, Boston University
	Home Production, Market Production and the Gender Wage Gap: Incentives and Expectations
3:00 pm	Break
3:15 pm	ANDRES EROSA, University of Toronto
	LUISA FUSTER, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
	DIEGO RESTUCCIA, University of Toronto
	A Quantitative Theory of the Gender Gap in Wages
4:15 pm	MARCUS HAGEDORN and IOURII MANOVSKII, University of Pennsylvania
	The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies Revisited
5:15 pm	Adjourn
6:00 PM	Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
THURSDAY, JULY 21:
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	FRANCISCO GONZALEZ, University of British Columbia
	SHOUYONG SHI, University of Toronto
	Learning from Unemployment
2:00 pm	GUIDO MENZIO, Northwestern University
	A Cheap-Talk Theory of Random and Directed Search
3:00 pm	Break
3:15 pm	VERONICA GUERRIERI, MIT
	Bilateral Asymmetric Information and Labor Market Frictions
4:15 pm	BJOERN BRUEGEMANN and GIUSEPPE MOSCARINI, Yale University
	Asymmetric Information and Employment Fluctuations
5:15 pm	Adjourn
FRIDAY, JULY 22:
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	ROGER FARMER, UC, Los Angeles
	Shooting the Auctioneer
2:00 pm	GUILLAUME VANDENBROUCKE, University of Southern California
	Long Run Trends in Hours: A Model
3:00 pm	Break
3:15 pm	JOHN KENNES, University of Copenhagen
	Lots of Heterogeneity in a Matching Model
4:15 pm	MANOLIS GALENIANOS, University of Pennsylvania
	PHILIPP KIRCHER, University of Bonn
	Directed Search with Multiple Job Applications
5:15 pm	Adjourn
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