NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2001
Macro Perspectives
Richard Rogerson and Randall Wright, Organizers
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 23-July 27, 2001
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
MONDAY, JULY 23:
12:00 N Lunch
1:00 PM CHRISTOPHER PISSARIDES, London School of Economics
Consumption and Savings with Unemployment Risk:
Implications for Optimal Employment Contracts
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM EVA NAGYPAL, Stanford University
Fixed-Term Contracts in Europe:
A Reassessment in the Light of the Importance of Job-Specific Learning
3:15 PM Break
3:30 PM GILLES ST. PAUL, CREMAQ-IDEI
Information Technology and the Knowledge Elite
4:30 PM Adjourn
TUESDAY, JULY 24:
12:00 N Lunch
1:00 PM SATYAJIT CHATTERJEE, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Unemployment and Labor Force Participation in a Model
of Precautionary Savings
(joint with KEITH SILLl)
SI01 EFRW program
page two
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM IAN KING, University of Auckland
(joint with BENOIT JULIEN and JOHN KENNES)
3:15 PM Break
3:30 PM ALAIN DELACROIX, Purdue University
Heterogeneous Matching, Transferable Utility and Labor Market Outcomes
4:30 PM Adjourn
WEDNESDAY, JULY 25:
12:00 N Lunch
1:00 PM RICARDO LAGOS, New York University
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM JONAS FISHER, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Heterogeneous Investment Dynamics
3:15 PM Break
3:30 PM JOHN KENNAN, University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER
Information Conflicts and Business Cycles
4:30 PM Adjourn
6:00 PM Clambake
Harvard Faculty Club
20 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA
THURSDAY, JULY 26:
12:00 N Lunch
1:00 PM GADI BARLEVY, Northwestern University
The Sullying Effects of Recessions
SI01 EFRW program
page three
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM ROBERT SHIMER, Princeton University and NBER
The Assignment of Workers to Jobs In an Economy with Coordination Frictions
3:15 PM Break
3:30 PM MARCELO VERACIERTO, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
What are the Short-Run Effects of Increasing Labor Market Flexibility?
4:30 PM Adjourn
FRIDAY, JULY 27:
12:00 N Lunch
1:00 PM MICHAEL PRIES, University of Maryland
Uninsured Idiosyncratic Risk and Human Capital Accumulation
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM BOYAN JOVANOVIC, New York University and NBER
PETER ROUSSEAU, Vanderbilt University and NBER
Mergers and Technological Change: 1885-1998
3:15 PM Break
3:30 PM RASMUS LENTZ, Northwestern University
TORBEN TRANAES, University of Copenhagen
Job Search and Savings: Wealth Effects and Duration Dependence
4:30 PM Adjourn
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