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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2009

 

Macroeconomics, Trade and Productivity Workshop

 

Susanto Basu and Ernst R. Berndt, Organizers

 

July 15, 2009

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 15:

 

 

 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

 9:00 am

VIRGILIU MIDRIGAN, New York University and NBER

 

DANIEL XU, New York University and NBER

 

Accounting for Plant-Level Misallocation

 

 

 

Discussant: RICHARD ROGERSON, Arizona State University and NBER

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:30 am

SEBNEM KALEMLI-OZCAN, University of Houston and NBER

 

BRENT SORENSON, University of Houston

 

VADYM VOLOSOVYCH, Florida Atlantic University

 

Deep Financial Integration and Volatility

 

 

 

Discussant: JAE W. SIM, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

11:30 am

DOMENICO J. MARCHETTI, Bank of Italy

 

UGO ALBERTAZZI, Bank of Italy

 

Lending Supply and Unnatural Selection: An Analysis of Bank-Firm Relationships in Italy After Lehman

 

 

 

Discussant: SIMON GILCHRIST, Boston University and NBER

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:30 pm

VASCO M. CARVALHO, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

 

Aggregate Fluctuations and the Network Structure of Intersectoral Trade

 

 

 

Discussant:  JOHN FERNALD, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

 

 

 2:30 pm

Break

 

 

 3:00 pm

RUEDIGER BACHMANN, University of Michigan

 

CHRISTIAN BAYER, Bonn University

 

Firm-Specific Productivity Risk over the Business Cycle: Facts and Aggregate Implications

 

 

 

Discussant: NICK BLOOM, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

 4:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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