NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting
Mark Bils and Christopher Sims, Organizers
July 21, 2001
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, Massachusetts
PROGRAM
FRIDAY, JULY 20:
6:30 PM Reception and Dinner
Royal Sonesta Hotel
SATURDAY, JULY 21:
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM Love and Money:
A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Household Sorting and Inequality
RAQUEL FERNÁNDEZ, New York University and NBER
NEZIH GUNER, Queen's University
JOHN KNOWLES, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: MICHAEL KREMER, Harvard University and NBER
10:00 AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM Aggregate Consequences of Limited Contract Enforceability
THOMAS COOLEY, New York University
RAMON MARIMON, European University Institute and NBER
VINCENZO QUADRINI, New York University
Discussant: STEPHEN WILLIAMSON, University of Iowa
11:30 AM Money as Stock
JOHN COCHRANE, University of Chicago and NBER
Discussant: BENNETT MCCALLUM, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
12:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy Under Sticky Prices
STEPHANIE SCHMITT-GROHÉ, Rutgers University
MARTÍN URIBE, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: V.V. CHARI, University of Minnesota
2:30 PM Coffee Break
3:00 PM Mismeasurement of the Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution:
The Role of Limited Stock Market Participation
MUHAMMET FATIH GUVENEN, Carnegie Mellon University
Discussant: ROBERT E. HALL, Stanford University and NBER
4:00 PM Monetary Policy Rules, Macroeconomic Stability and Inflation:
A View from the Trenches
ATHANASIOS ORPHANIDES, Federal Reserve Board
Discussant: ERIC LEEPER, Indiana University
5:00 PM Adjourn
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