NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2008

Daron Acemoglu, Kenneth Rogoff and Michael Woodford, editors

Conference held April 4-5, 2008
Published in April 2009 by University of Chicago Press
© 2009 by the National Bureau of Economic Research
in NBER Book Series NBER Macroeconomics Annual

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462 pages
ISBN: 0-226-00204-7

Table of Contents

Editorial: Daron Acemoglu, Kenneth Rogoff, Michael Woodford (bibliographic info)

1. The Timing of Labor Market Expansions: New Facts and a New Hypothesis: Giuseppe Moscarini, Fabien Postel-Vinay (bibliographic info)
       Comment: Robert Hall (bibliographic info)
       Comment: Robert Shimer (bibliographic info)
       Discussion: Laura Feiveson, Luminita Stevens (bibliographic info)

2. How Has the Euro Changed the Monetary Transmission: Jean Boivin, Marc P. Giannoni, Benoit Mojon (bibliographic info)
       Comment: Lucrezia Reichlin (bibliographic info)
       Comment: Harald Uhlig (bibliographic info)
       Discussion: Laura Feiveson, Luminita Stevens (bibliographic info)

3. When Does Improving Health Raise GDP?: Quamrul H. Ashraf, Ashley Lester, David N. Weil (bibliographic info)
       Comment: Hoyt Bleakley (bibliographic info)
       Comment: Simon Johnson (bibliographic info)
       Discussion: Laura Feiveson, Luminita Stevens (bibliographic info)

4. Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households: Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner (bibliographic info)
       Comment: Stefania Albanesi (bibliographic info)
       Comment: Justin Wolfers (bibliographic info)
       Discussion: Laura Feiveson, Luminita Stevens (bibliographic info)

5. Carry Trades and Currency Crashes: Markus K. Brunnermeier, Stefan Nagel, Lasse H. Pedersen (bibliographic info)
       Comment: Craig Burnside (bibliographic info)
       Comment: Hanno Lustig, Adrien Verdelhan (bibliographic info)
       Discussion: Laura Feiveson, Luminita Stevens (bibliographic info)

6. On the Need for a New Approach to Analyzing Monetary Policy: Andrew Atkeson, Patrick J. Kehoe (bibliographic info)
       Comment: John Cochrane (bibliographic info)
       Comment: Bennett McCallum (bibliographic info)
       Discussion: Laura Feiveson, Luminita Stevens (bibliographic info)

An online appendix is available for this publication.

 
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