ConferenceProgram
Friday, April 27, 2007University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business
5807 S. Woodlawn, Room C-25
| 8:30 - 9:15 | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:15 - 10:00 | Boyan Jovanovic (NYU), "Investment Options and the Business Cycle." Discussant: Hugo Hopenhayn (UCLA). |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | Pamela Labadie (George Washington University) "Anonymity and Individual Risk." Discussant: GeorgeConstantinides (Chicago GSB) |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Dale Mortensen (Northwestern), "Island Matching." Discussant: Rob Shimer (Chicago). |
| 12:00 - 2:00 | Lunch Ida Noyes Hall 1212 E. 59th Street Speaker: Pete Klenow (Stanford University) |
| 2:00 - 2:45 | Christopher Phelan (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), "On the Robustness of Laissez-Faire," (with Narayana Kocherlakota). Discussant: Ivan Werning (MIT) |
| 2:45 - 3:30 | Gary D. Hansen (UCLA), "Business Cycle Fluctuations and the Life Cycle: How Important is Learning by Doing?," (with Selo Imrohoroglu). Discussant: Larry Jones (Minnesota) |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Coffee Break |
| 4:00 - 4:45 | Edward J. Green (Penn State), "Heterogeneous Firms Facing Common Shocks:An Overlapping-Generations Example." Discussant: Nobu Kiyotaki (Princeton) |
| 4:45 - 5:30 | Thomas J. Sargent (NYU), "Doubts or Variability," (with Francisco Barillas and Lars P. Hansen). Discussant: Christopher Sims (Princeton) |
| Saturday, April 28, 2007 |
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Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago |
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| 8:30 - 9:15 | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:15 - 10.00 | Richard Rogerson (Arizona State), "Micro and Macro Elasticities in a Life Cycle Model with Taxes," (with Johanna Wallenius). Discussant: Fernando Alvarez (Chicago) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | David Levine (Washington University of St. Louis), "Self-Confirming Equilibrium and the Lucas Critique," (with Drew Fudenberg). Discussant: Michael Woodford (Columbia) |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Lee Ohanian (UCLA), "Cartelization Policies and the Great Depression." Discussant: Fabrizio Perri (Minnesota). |
| 12:00 - 2:00 | Lunch Speaker: Finn Kydland (UC Santa Barbara) |
| 2:00 - 2:45 | Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Princeton), "Spatial Growth and Industry Age," (with Klaus Desmet). Discussant: Paul Romer (Stanford GSB) |
| 2:45 - 3:30 | Samuel Kortum (Chicago), "An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence from French Firms," (with Jonathan Eaton and Francis Kramarz). Discussant: Andrew Atkeson (UCLA) |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Coffee Break |
| 4:00 - 4:45 | Nancy Stokey (Chicago), "Adjustment Costs and Consumption Behavior" Discussant: Monika Piazzesi (Chicago GSB) |
| 4:45 - 5:30 | Edward C. Prescott (Arizona State), "Openness, Technology Capital, and Development," (with Ellen McGrattan). Discussant: Robert Lucas (Chicago) |
| We thank the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago for co-sponsoring the conference. |
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