NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2000
Macro Perspectives
Richard Rogerson and Randall Wright, Organizers
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 24 - 28, 2000
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
MONDAY, JULY 24:
1:00 PM GADI BARLEVY, Northwestern University
Credit Market Frictions and the Allocation of Resources Over the Business Cycle
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM NEZIH GUNER and JOHN KNOWLES, University of Pennsylvania
Martial Instability and Aging:
Macroeconomic Consequences of the U.S. Experience
3:15 PM Break
3:30 PM VICTORIA OSUNA, Universidad de Carlos III de Madrid
VICTOR RIOS-RULL, University of Pennsylvania
Aggregate Implications of Workweek Restrictions
TUESDAY, JULY 25:
1:00 PM HAL COLE, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
LEE OHANIAN, UC, Los Angeles
New Deal Policies and the Persistence of the Great Depression: A General Equilibrium Analysis*
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM DEAN CORBAE, University of Pittsburgh
SATYAJIT CHATTERJEE, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
On the Welfare Gains of Reducing the Likelihood of Depressions
3:15 PM Break
3:30 PM YONGSUNG CHANG and FRANK SCHORFHEIDE,
University of Pennsylvania
Unveiling the Home Sector: Bayesian Estimates of Aggregate Home Production Models
WEDNESDAY, JULY 26:
1:00 PM IAN KING, Auckland University
(Joint with BENOIT JULIEN and JOHN HILLAS)
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM KENNETH BURDETT, University of Essex
RANDALL WRIGHT, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Pricing and Matching with Frictions
(Joint with SHOUYONG SHI)
3:15 PM Break
3:30 PM ROBERT SHIMER, Princeton University
Matching, Searching, and Heterogeneity*
(Joint with LONES SMITH)
THURSDAY, JULY 27:
1:00 PM KENNETH BURDETT, Essex University
RANDALL WRIGHT, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM JAN EECKHOUT, University of Pennsylvania
Competing Norms of Cooperation
3:15 PM Break
3:30 PM ESPEN MOEN, Foundation for Economic Research, Oslo
Turnover, Wage Determination and the Formation of Human Capital (Joint with ASA ROSEN)
FRIDAY, JULY 28:
1:00 PM RICHARD ROGERSON, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
MARTIN SCHINDLER, University of Pennsylvania
The Welfare Costs of Worker Displacement
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER
Deunionization, Technical Change and Inequality
(Joint with PHILIPPE AGHION and GIANLUCA VIOLANTE)
3:15 PM Break
3:30 PM RICARDO LAGOS, London School of Economics
To Be Announced 5/25/00