MACROECONOMICS ACROSS TIME AND
SPACE
(Tentative program)
Sponsors
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and the NBER
Organizers
Jeremy Greenwood, Lee Ohanian and Peter Rupert
Friday, May 18th
1:00, 1st session. Female Labor Force Participation
STEFANIA ALBANESI and Claudia Olivetti,
“Gender Roles and Technological Progress.”
ALESSANDRA FOGLI and Laura Veldkamp
“Nature or Nurture? Learning and Female Labor Force Dynamics.”
2:40, 20 min break
3:00, 2nd session. Financial Development and Economic Development
JEREMY
“Financing Development: The Role of Information Costs.”
Robert M. Townsend and KENICHI UEDA
“Welfare Gains from Financial Liberalization.”
4:40, 20 min break.
5:00, 3rd session. More on Economic Development
Rodi Manuelli and ANANTH SESHADRI
“Neoclassical Miracles.”
5:50 adjourn
Saturday, May 19th
9:00, 1st session. Monetary Economics
Ping He, Lixin Huang, and RANDALL WRIGHT
“Money, Banking and Monetary Policy.”
FRANCOIS VELDE
“Chronicle of a Deflation Unforetold.”
10:40, 20 min break.
11:00, 2nd session. Political Economy
Matthias Doepke and MICHELE TERTILT
“Women's Liberation: What was in it for Men?”
Betsy Caucutt, THOMAS COOLEY, and Nezih Guner
“The Farm, the City and the Emergence of Social Security.”
12:40-2:00, lunch.
2:00, 3rd session. The 1930’s and 40’s
HENRY SIU
“The Fiscal Role of Conscription in the
HAL COLE and Lee Ohanian
“Deflation, Real Wages, and the International Great Depression: A Productivity Puzzle.”
3:40, adjourn.