NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting
Ricardo Caballero and John Cochrane, Organizers
February 3, 2001
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
101 Market Street
San Francisco, California
PROGRAM
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3:
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM AART KRAAY, NORMAN LOAYZA, and
LUIS SERVEN, World Bank
JAUME VENTURA, MIT and NBER
Discussant: FERNANDO ALVAREZ, University of Chicago and NBER
10:00 AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM DOUGLAS DIAMOND, University of Chicago and NBER
RAGHURAM RAJAN, MIT and NBER
Liquidity Shortages and Banking Crises
Discussant: NOBUHIRO KIYOTAKI, London School of Economics and NBER
11:30 AM JEREMY GREENWOOD and
MEHMET YORUKOGLU, University of Rochester
ANANTH SESHADRI, University of Wisconsin
Discussant: ROBERT GORDON, Northwestern University and NBER
12:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM TOBIAS MOSKOWITZ and
ANNETTE VISSING-JORGENSEN, University of Chicago
The Private Equity Premium Puzzle
Discussant: DEBORAH LUCAS, Northwestern University and NBER
2:30 PM Coffee Break
3:00 PM HAROLD COLE and
LEE OHANIAN, UC, Los Angeles
New Deal Policies and the Persistence of the Great Depression:
A General Equilibrium Analysis
Discussant: ALAN STOCKMAN, University of Rochester and NBER
4:00 PM ELLEN MCGRATTAN and
EDWARD PRESCOTT, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER
Taxes, Regulations, and Asset Prices
Discussant: ROBERT HALL, Stanford University and NBER
5:00 PM Adjourn
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