NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2001
Income Distribution and Macroeconomics
Roland Benabou, Steven Durlauf and Oded Galor, Organizers
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 23 - 27, 2001
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
MONDAY, JULY 23:
INEQUALITY ACROSS COUNTRIES
8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
9:00 AM DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER
SIMON JOHNSON, MIT and NBER
JAMES ROBINSON, UC, Berkeley
Reversal of Fortune: Long-Run Changes in the Distribution of Prosperity
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM WILLIAM EASTERLY, The World Bank
The Middle Class Consensus and Economic Development
11:15 AM Break
11:30 AM JAMES FEYRER, Dartmouth College
12:30 PM Lunch and Adjourn
TUESDAY, JULY 24:
TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
9:00 AM ODED GALOR, Brown University
OMER MOAV, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Natural Selection and the Origin of Economic Growth
10:00 AM Break
SI01 EFBDG Program
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10:15 AM PETER HOWITT, Brown University and NBER
DAVID MAYER-FOULKES, CIDE, Mexico City
Technological Innovation, Implementation and Stagnation:
Convergence Clubs in the Open World Economy
11:15 AM Break
11:30 AM GILLES SAINT PAUL, Institut d'Economie Industrielle
Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs
12:30 PM Lunch and Adjourn
WEDNESDAY, JULY 25:
POLICY, DISTRIBUTION, AND MACROECONOMICS
8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
9:00 AM ALBERTO ALESINA, Harvard University and NBER
ELIANA LAFERRARA, Universita Bocconi
Preferences for Redistribution in the Land of Opportunities
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM OLIVIER BLANCHARD, MIT and NBER
FRANCESCO GIAVAZZI, Universita Bocconi and NBER
Macroeconomic Effects of Regulation and Deregulation in
Goods and Labor Markets
11:15 AM Break
11:30 AM JOHN HASSLER, Institute for International Economic Studies
JOSE VINCENTE RODRIGUEZ MORA, Universita Pompeu Fabra
KJETIL STORESLETEN, Institute for International Economic Studies
FABRIZIO ZILIBOTTI, Institute for International Economic Studies
The Survival of the Welfare State
12:30 PM Lunch and Adjourn
6:00 PM Clambake
Harvard Faculty Club
20 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA
THURSDAY, JULY 26:
DEMOGRAPHY AND HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS
8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
SI01 EFBDG Program
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9:00 AM RAQUEL FERNANDEZ, New York University and NBER
NEZIH GUNER, Queens University
JOHN KNOWLES, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Love and Money: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of
Household Sorting and Inequality
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM JEREMY GREENWOOD, University of Rochester
ANANTH SHESHADRI , University of Wisconsin
MEHMET YORUKOGLU, University of Chicago
11:15 AM Break
11:30 AM JESUS FERNADEZ-VILLAVERDE, University of Pennsylvania
Was Malthus Right? Economic Growth and Population Dynamics
12:30 PM Lunch and Adjourn
FRIDAY, JULY 27:
CITIES AND LOCAL INTERACTIONS:
8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts. NB: please note the earlier starting time for this session..
8:45 AM STEVEN DURLAUF, University of Wisconsin and NBER
On the Empirics of Social Capital
9:45 AM Break
10:00 AM YANNIS IOANNIDES, Tufts University
HENRY OVERMAN, London School of Economics
Spatial Evolution of the US Urban System
11:00 AM Break
11:10 AM JORDAN RAPPAPORT, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
JEFFREY SACHS, Harvard University and NBER
The US as a Coastal Nation
12:10 PM YONA RUBINSTEIN, University of Chicago
Adam Smith and the Role of Cities' Density in Explaining the
Increasing Earnings Inequality and the Productivity Slowdown
1:10 PM Lunch and Adjourn
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