NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting

Charles Jones and David Romer, Organizers

October 19, 2001

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

230 South LaSalle Street

Chicago, IL

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18:

6:30 PM Reception and Dinner

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19:

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM MICHAEL KREMER, Harvard University and NBER

BENJAMIN OLKEN, Harvard University

A Biological Model of Union Politics

Discussant: KEVIN MURPHY, University of Chicago and NBER

10:00 AM Coffee Break

10:30 AM PAUL BEAUDRY, University of British Columbia and NBER

FABRICE COLLARD, CNRS-GREMAQ

Why has the Employment-Productivity Tradeoff among Industrialized Countries

been so Strong?

Discussant: SUSANTO BASU, University of Michigan and NBER

11:30 AM OLIVIER BLANCHARD, MIT and NBER

FRANCESCO GIAVAZZI, Bocconi University and NBER

Macroeconomic Effects of Regulation and Deregulation in Goods and Labor Markets

Discussant: JOHN KENNAN, University of Wisconsin and NBER

12:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER

Labor- and Capital-Augmenting Technical Change

Discussant: CHANG-TAI HSIEH, Princeton University

2:30 PM Coffee Break

3:00 PM DIRK KRUEGER, Stanford University

FABRIZIO PERRI, New York University

Does Income Inequality Lead to Consumption Inequality?

Empirical Findings and a Theoretical Explanation

Discussant: PIERRE-OLIVIER GOURINCHAS, Princeton University and NBER

4:00 PM N. GREGORY MANKIW, Harvard University and NBER

RICARDO REIS, Harvard University

Sticky Information Versus Sticky Prices:

A Proposal to Replace the New Keynesian Phillips Curve

Discussant: MARTIN EICHENBAUM, Northwestern University and NBER

5:00 PM Adjourn

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