Society for Economic Dynamics Program

June 28 – 30, 2001
Stockholm School of Economics and Stockholm University
Stockholm, Sweden

June 28�1:00 to 3:00 p.m.

Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations

Timothy J. Kehoe
Modeling Capital Flows and Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations in Mexico 1988-1998

George Alessandria
International Relative Price Volatility and Intranational Price Dispersion

Jeffrey Campbell (Beverly Lapham)
Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations and the Dynamics of Retail Trade Industries

Propagation through Nominal Rigidities

William T. Gavin (Robert Dittmar and Finn E. Kydland)
Inflation Persistence and Flexible Prices

Hans Jorgen Whitta-Jacobsen
Endogenous Keynesian Business Cycles

Paraskevi Pappa (Katharine Neiss)
A Monetary Model of Factor Hoarding

Risk Sharing and Wealth

Chris Telmer (Kjetil Storesletten and Amir Yaron)
Consumption and Risk Sharing Over the Life Cycle

Thorsten V. Koeppl
Optimal Dynamic Risk Sharing with Enforcement as a Choice Variable

Josep Pijoan-Mas (Antonia Dýaz)
Habit Formation: Implications for the Wealth Distribution

Mariacristina De Nardi (Marco Cagetti)
Entrepreneurship, Default Risk, Bequests and Wealth Inequality

Changes in Female Labor Supply

Larry E. Jones (Rodolfo Manuelli, Ellen McGrattan)
Why Are Married Women Working So Much?

Elizabeth Caucutt (Nezih Guner and John Knowles)
The Timing of Births: A Marriage Market Analysis

Claudia Olivetti
Changes in Women’s Hours of Market Work: The Effect of Changing Returns to Experience

Cities

Xiaodong Zhu (Dennis Yang)
Cities, Agriculture, and Growth

Pieter Gautier (Coen N. Teulings)
Metropoles, Towns and the countryside, Search and assignment across space

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
Optimal Urban Land Use and Zoning

Human Capital Formation and Growth

Itzhak Zilcha (Bernhard Eckwert)
Human Capital and Growth: The Role of Information

Arilton Teixeira
Effects of Trade Policy on Technology Adoption

Mattthias Doepke (David de la Croix)
Inequality and Growth: Why Differential Fertility Matters

Equity Markets

Magnus Dahlquist (Ravi Bansal)
Credibility, Risk, and Return in Global Equity Markets

Laura L. Veldkamp
Slow Boom, Big Crash

Melanie Cao (Jason Z Wei)
Equilibrium Valuation of Weather Derivatives