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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2011

 

Economic Fluctuations and Growth

Macro Perspectives Workshop

 

Richard Rogerson, Robert Shimer, and Randall Wright, Organizers

 

July 18 - 22, 2011

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

Monday, July 18:

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

Roberto Pinheiro, University of Colorado at Boulder
Spatial Sorting: Why New York, Los Angeles and Detroit Attract the Greatest Minds as Well as the Unskilled
(Joint with Jan Eeckhout and Kurt Schmidheiny)

2:00 pm

Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University and NBER
Business Cycles with Endogenous Uncertainty
(Joint with Ruediger Bachmann)

3:00 pm

Break

3:30 pm

Robert Hall, Stanford University and NBER
Clashing Theories of Unemployment

4:30 pm

Randall Wright, University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER
A
Coasian Theory of Household Formation
(Joint with Ken Burdett, Mei Dong and Ling Sun)

5:30 pm

Adjourn

Tuesday, July 19:

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

1:00 pm

Gianluca Violante, New York University
Measuring Mismatch in the U.S. Labor Market
(Joint with Aysegul Sahin, Joseph Song and Giorgio Topa)

2:00 pm

Barbara Petrongolo, London School of Economics
How Local Are Labor Markets? Evidence from a Spatial Job Search Model
(Joint with Alan Manning)

3:00 pm

Break

3:30 pm

Ludo Visschers, Simon Fraser University
Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle
(Joint with Carlos Carrillo-Tudela)

4:30 pm

Thijs van Rens, CREI and Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Structural Unemployment
(Joint with Benedikt Herz)

 

 

5:30 pm

Adjourn

Wednesday, July 20:

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

1:00 pm

Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Identifying Technology Shocks with Heterogeneous Inputs
(Joint with Luigi Bocola and Marcus Hagedorn)

2:00 pm

Eric Sims, University of Notre Dame
Reallocation and the Changing Nature of Economic Fluctuations
(Joint with Julio Garin and Michael Pries)

3:00 pm

Break

3:30 pm

William Hawkins, University of Rochester
Do Large Firm Bargaining Models Amplify and Propagate Technology Shocks?

4:30 pm

Limor Golan, Carnegie Mellon University
Estimating the Parental Returns to Time Investment in Children Using a Life Cycle Dynastic Model
(Joint with George-Levi Gayle and Mehmet Soytas)

 

 

5:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

6:00 pm

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

Thursday, July 21:

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

Richard Rogerson, Princeton University and NBER
Labor Supply, Frictions and the Business Cycle
(Joint with Per Krusell, Toshi Mukoyama and Aysegul Sahin)

2:00 pm

Pricila Maziero, University of Pennsylvania
Optimal Insurance of Search Risk
(Joint with Mike Golosov and Guido Menzio)

3:00 pm

Break

3:30 pm

Theodore Papageorgiou, Pennsylvania State University
Large Firms and Internal Labor Markets

4:30 pm

Rafael Lopes de Melo, University of Chicago
Mismatch, Human Capital Specificity and the Business Cycle

 

 

5:30 pm

Adjourn

Friday, July 22:

12:00 n

Lunch

12:30 pm

Julen Esteban-Pretel, GRIPS
Life-Cycle Labor Search with Stochastic Match Quality
(Joint with Junichi Fujimoto)

1:30 pm

Jan Eeckhout, University College London
Assortative Matching and the Size of the Firm
(Joint with Philipp Kircher)

2:30 pm

Rasmus Lentz, University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER
An Empirical Model of Wage Dispersion with Sorting
(Joint with Jesper Bagger)

3:30 pm

Adjourn