June 29-3:15 to 5:15 p.m.
Monetary History
Warren Weber, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Banknote Pricing in the Antebellum United States
Antoine Martin, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Endogenous Multiple Currencies
François Velde, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Government Equity and Money: John Law’s System in 1720 France
International Economics and the Depression
Lee E. Ohanain, UCLA
Harold Cole, UCLA, and Ron Leung, University of Minnesota
Real Wages, Deflation, and the World-Wide Great Depression
Amartya Lahiri, UCLA
Carlos Vegh, UCLA
On the Non-Monotonic Relationship Between Interest Rates and the Exchange Rate
Sharon Harrison, Barnard College, Columbia University
Mark Weder, Humboldt University, Berlin
Did Sunspot Forces Cause the Great Depression?
Measuring and Explaining Border Effects
Michael Rolleigh, University of Minnesota
Ron Leung, University of Minnesota and
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Opening to Trade and Firm Selection
Chris Telmer, Carnegie Mellon University
Mario Crucini, Vanderbilt University, and
Marios Zachariadis, Louisiana State University
How Wide is the Border (cont.)?
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago
A Spatial Model of Trade
Plant Heterogeneity
Raphael Bergoeing, Universidad de Chile
Andrea Repetto, Universidad de Chile
Disaggregated Fluctuations and Policy
Michael Gort, State University of New York at Buffalo
J. Bradford Jensen, U.S. Bureau of the Census, and Seong-Hoon Lee, State University of New York at Buffalo
The Probability of Survival of Industrial Plants
Samuel Kortum, University of Minnesota
Jonathan Eaton, Boston University, and Francis Kramarz, CREST-INSEE
An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence from French Firms
Business Cycles II
Daniele Coen-Pirani, Carnegie-Mellon University
Microeconomic Inventory Behavior and Aggregate Inventory Dynamics
Aubhik Khan, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Julia K. Thomas, University of Minnesota
Reassessing the Role of Inventories over the Business Cycle
Yi Wen, Cornell University
Tarek Coury, Cornell University
Global Indeterminacy and Chaos in Standard RBC Models
Brian Peterson, Indiana University
Housing Investment and the Business Cycle
Monetary Policy II
Chris Edmond, UCLA
Fernando Alvarez, University of Chicago, and Andrew Atkeson, UCLA
Can a Baumol-Tobin Model Explain the Short-Run
Behavior of Velocity?
Vasso P. Ioannidou, Tilburg University
Charles T. Carlstrom, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland,
and Timothy Fuerst, Bowling Green State University
Monetary Policy and Asset Prices
Nurlan Turdaliev, McGill University
Cheap Talk and Monetary Policy
Filippo Occhino, Rutgers University
Monetary Policy Shocks in an Economy with Segmented Markets
Credit Market Frictions
Neng Wang, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Understanding the Distribution of Earnings, Wealth, and Lifetimes
Stijn Van Nieuwenburgh, Stanford University
Hanno Lustig, Stanford University
Housing and Countercyclical Variation in Risk Premia
Dirk Krueger, Stanford University
Fabrizio Perri, Stern School of Business, New York University
A Quantitative Explanation for the Diverging Trends of Income and Consumption Inequality in the United States from 1980 to 1998
Tom Krebs, Brown University
Incomplete Markets, Borrowing Constraints, and
Consumption Inequality
Structural Estimation of Dynamic Models I
Andrea Moro, University of Minnesota
Alberto Bisin and Giorgio Topa, New York University
A Procedure for Estimating Models with Multiple Equilibria
Ken Wolpin, University of Pennsylvania
Using a Social Experiment to Validate a Dynamic Behavioral Model of Fertility and Child Schooling: Assessing the Impact of a School Subsidy Program in Mexico
Christopher Ferrall, Queen’s University
Explaining and Forecasting Results of The Self-Sufficiency Project
Michael Keane, New York University and Yale University
Antonio Merlo, University of Pennsylvania
A Political Economy Model of Congressional Careers
Dynamic Portfolio Allocation
Andrea Eisfeldt, Northwestern University,
Kellogg School of Management
Smoothing with Liquid and Illiquid Assets
Valery Polkovnichenko, University of Minnesota
Life Cycle Consumption and Portfolio Choice with Additive Habit Formation Preferences and Uninsurable Labor Income Risk
Thomas D. Tallarini, Jr., Carnegie Mellon University
Stanley E. Zin, Carnegie Mellon University
Dynamic Portfolio Choice and Risk Aversion
Alex Michaelides, LSE
Francisco Gomes, London Business School
Life-Cycle Asset Allocation: A Model with Borrowing Constraints, Uninsurable Labor Income Risk and Stock-Market Participation Costs |