Authors, please upload your paper here.

 

NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

EF&G Research Meeting

Susanto Basu and John Cochrane, Organizers

July 16, 2011

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Grand Ballroom A
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

 

Friday, July 15:

6:30 pm

Reception and Dinner – Grand Ballroom B

Saturday, July 16:

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast


9:00 am


George-Marios Angeletos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Jennifer La'O, University of Chicago
Decentralization, Communication, and the Origins of Fluctuations

Discussant: 
Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University and NBER


10:00 am


Break


10:30 am


Paul Beaudry, University of British Columbia and NBER
David Green, University of British Columbia
Benjamin Sand, Copenhagen Business School
How Elastic is the Job Creation Curve?

Discussant: 
Steven Davis, University of Chicago and NBER


11:30 am


Veronica Guerrieri, University of Chicago and NBER
Guido Lorenzoni, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Credit Crises, Precautionary Savings, and the Liquidity Trap

Discussant: 
Robert Hall, Stanford University and NBER


12:30 pm


Lunch - Grand Ballroom B


1:30 pm


Mark Aguiar, University of Rochester and NBER
Mark Bils, University of Rochester and NBER
Has Consumption Inequality Mirrored Income Inequality?

Discussant:  Jonathan Parker, Northwestern University and NBER

2:30 pm

Break


3:00 pm


Francois Gourio, Boston University and NBER
Credit Risk and Disaster Risk

Discussant:  John Campbell, Harvard University and NBER


4:00 pm


Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
Benn Eifert, Overland Advisors LLC
Aprajit Mahajan, Stanford University
David McKenzie, The World Bank
John Roberts, Stanford University
Does Management Matter? Evidence from India

Discussant: 
Francesco Caselli, London School of Economics and NBER

5:00 pm

Adjourn