Univertsity of Chicago: Department of Economics

ConferenceProgram

Friday, April 27, 2007

University 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

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
230 South LaSalle Street


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.