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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting

Russell Cooper and Mark Gertler, Organizers

February 4, 2011

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

10^th Floor - Main Building

33 Liberty Street

New York, NY

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3:
6:30 pm	Reception and Dinner
	Liberty Dining Room, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4:
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Robert Shimer, University of Chicago and NBER
	Wage Rigidities and Jobless Recoveries
	Critic: Jordi Gali, CREI and NBER
10:00 am	Coffee Break
10:30 am	Alan Krueger, Princeton University
	Andreas Mueller, Stockholm University
	Job Search and Job Finding in a Period of Mass Unemployment: Evidence from High-Frequency Longitudinal Data
	Critic: Robert Hall, Stanford University and NBER
11:30 am	Virgiliu Midrigan, New York University and NBER
	Daniel Yi Xu, New York University and NBER
	Finance and Misallocation: Evidence from Plant-Level Data
	Critic: Simon Gilchrist, Boston University and NBER
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Craig Burnside, Duke University and NBER
	Martin Eichenbaum, Northwestern University and NBER
	Sergio Rebelo, Northwestern University and NBER
	Understanding Booms and Busts in Housing Markets
	Critic: John Leahy, New York University and NBER
2:30 pm	Coffee Break
3:00 pm	Andrew Glover, University of Minnesota
	Jonathan Heathcote, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
	Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
	Jose-Victor Rios-Rull, University of Minnesota and NBER
	Inter-Generational Redistribution in the Great Recession
	Critic: Giovanni Violante, New York University and NBER
4:00 pm	Vasco Carvalho, CREI
	Xavier Gabaix, New York University and NBER
	The Great Diversification and Its Undoing
	Critic: Giorgio Primiceri, Northwestern University and NBER
5:00 pm	Adjourn
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