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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

EF&G Research Meeting

Pete Klenow and Valerie Ramey, Organizers

July 13, 2013

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Grand Ballroom A

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

Participant List

Friday, July 12:

6:30 pm

Reception and Dinner – Grand Ballroom B
A celebration of Robert E. Hall’s contributions to the NBER

Saturday, July 13:

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast


9:00 am


Robert E. Hall, Stanford University and NBER
High Discounts and High Unemployment  (slides)

Discussant:  Mark Gertler, New York University and NBER (slides)


10:00 am


Break


10:30 am


Mark A. Aguiar, Princeton University and NBER
Manuel Amador, Stanford University and NBER
Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University and NBER
Gita Gopinath, Harvard University and NBER
Crisis and Commitment: Inflation Credibility and the Vulnerability to Sovereign Debt Crises  (slides)

Discussant:  Harold Cole, University of Pennsylvania and NBER (slides)


11:30 am


Shigeru Fujita, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University and NBER
Recall and Unemployment  (slides)

Discussant:  Lawrence Katz, Harvard University and NBER (slides)

12:30 pm

Lunch - Grand Ballroom B


1:30 pm


Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Ufuk Akcigit, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
William R. Kerr, Harvard University and NBER
Innovation, Reallocation and Growth  (slides)

Discussant:  John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER (slides)

2:30 pm

Break


3:00 pm


Saki Bigio, Columbia University
Jennifer La'O, University of Chicago and NBER
Financial Frictions in Production Networks  (slides)

Discussant:  Chad Jones, Stanford University and NBER (slides)

4:00 pm

David Lagakos, Arizona State University
Benjamin Moll, Princeton University
Tommaso Porzio, Yale University
Nancy Qian, Yale University
Experience Matters: Human Capital and Development Accounting  (slides)

Discussant:  Paul Romer, New York University and NBER (slides)

5:00 pm

Adjourn