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SI 2013 EFG Working Group - Price Dynamics

Robert E. Hall, Nir Jaimovich, Aviv Nevo, and Duncan Simester, Organizers

July 15-16, 2013

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Charles A Meeting Room
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

 

Monday, July 15:

9:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

9:30 am

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Michael Weber, University of California at Berkeley
Are Sticky Prices Costly? Evidence From The Stock Market

10:15 am

Alberto Cavallo, Massachusetts Institute of Technolgy
Brent Neiman, University of Chicago and NBER
Roberto Rigobon, Massachusetts Institute of Technolgy and NBER
Product Introductions, Currency Unions, and the Real Exchange Rate

11:00 am

Break

11:15 am

Gee Hee Hong, Bank of Canada
Nicholas Li, University of Toronto
Market Structure and Cost Pass-Through in Retail

12:00 n

Lunch and Adjourn

Tuesday, July 16:

8:15 am

Coffee and Pastries

8:45 am

Arlene Chu, Northwestern University
Aviv Nevo, Northwestern University and NBER
The Elasticity of Substitution Between Time and Market Goods: Evidence from the Great Recession

9:30 am

Robert E. Hall, Stanford University and NBER
What the Cyclical Response of Advertising Reveals about Markups and Other Macroeconomic Wedges

10:15 am

Break

10:30 am

Eyal Dvir, Boston College
Georg Strasser, Boston College
Does Marketing Widen Borders? Cross-Country Price Dispersion in the European Car Market

11:15 am

Greg Kaplan, Princeton University and NBER
Guido Menzio, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Five Facts About Price Dispersion

12:00 n

Lunch and Adjourn