NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2002

Capital Markets in the Economy Workshop

Janice Eberly and Deborah Lucas, Organizers

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

July 22 - 24, 2002

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM



MONDAY, JULY 22:



12:00 PM Lunch



12:30 PM ANDREA EISFELDT and ADRIANO RAMPINI, Northwestern University

Capital Reallocation and Liquidity

Discussant: JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland and NBER



1:20 PM MARK BERGEN, University of Minnesota

MARK ZBARACKI, University of Pennsylvania

SHANTANU DUTTA, University of Chicago

MARK RITSON, London School of Business

DANIEL LEVY, Emory University

Beyond the Cost of Price Adjustment: Investments in Pricing Capital

Discussant: JULIO ROTEMBERG, Harvard University and NBER



2:10 PM Break



2:25 PM ALESSANDRA DEL BOCA, Universita di Brescia

MARZIO GALEOTTI, Universita degli Studi di Bergamo

PAOLA ROTA, University College, London

Non Convexities in the Adjustment of Different Capital Inputs:

A Firm Level Investigation



Discussant: ROBERT CHIRINKO, Emory University



3:15 PM TONI WHITED, University of Iowa

External Finance Constraints and the Intertemporal Pattern

of Intermittent Investment



Discussant: RUSSELL COOPER, Boston University and NBER



4:05 PM Break



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4:20 PM LUIGI GUISO, Ente PerGli Studi Bancari

ANIL KASHYAP, University of Chicago and NBER

FABIO PANETTA and DANIELE TERLIZZESE, Bank of Italy

How Senstive is Investment? Very(when the data are well measured)



Discussant: CHARLIE HIMMELBEG, Columbia University



5:10 PM Adjourn



TUESDAY, JULY 23:



12:00 PM Lunch



12:30 PM MONIKA MERZ, University of Bonn

ERAN YASHIV, Tel Aviv University

Labor Market Frictions, Capital Adjustment Costs, and Stock Prices



Discussant: ANDREW ABEL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER



1:20 PM FRANCISCO GOMES, London Business School

ALEXANDER MICHAELIDES, London School of Economics

Life Cycle Asset Allocation: A Model with Borrowing Constraints, Uninsurable Labor Income Risk and Stock Market Participation Costs



Discussant: ANNETTE VISSING-JORGENSON,

Northwestern University and NBER



2:10 PM Break



2:25 PM VALERY POLKOVNICHENKO, University of Minnesota

Life Cycle Consumption and Portfolio Choice with Additive Habit Formation Preferences and Uninsurable Labor Income Risk



Discussant: STANLEY ZIN, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER



3:15 PM STEVEN DAVIS, University of Chicago and NBER

FELIX KUBLER, Stanford University

PAUL WILLEN, University of Chicago

Borrowing Costs And The Demand For Equity Over The Life Cycle



Discussant: AMIR YARON, University of Pennsylvania and NBER



4:05 PM Break



4:20 PM MICHAEL GALLMEYER and BURTON HOLLIFIELD,

Carnegie Mellon University

An Examination of Heterogeneous Beliefs with a Short Sale Constraint



Discussant: JOHN HEATON, University of Chicago and NBER



5:10 PM Adjourn



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WEDNESDAY, JULY 24:



12:00 PM Lunch



12:30 PM PHILIP BOND and ARVIND KRISHNAMURTHY,

Northwestern University

Regulating Exclusion from Financial Markets

Discussant: VIRAL ACHARYA, London Business School



1:20 PM MARTIN BERKA, University of British Columbia

CHRISTIAN ZIMMERMAN, Universite du Quebec a Montreal

Financial Intermediation with Heterogeneous Agents:

Transitional Dynamics and Policy Responses



Discussant: VINCENZO QUADRINI, Duke University



2:10 PM Break



2:25 PM RUI CASTRO, University of Montreal

GIAN LUCA CLEMENTI, Carnegie Mellon University

GLENN MACDONALD, Washington University, St. Louis

Optimal Financing Contracts, Investor Protection, and Growth



Discussant: HANNO LUSTIG, Stanford University



3:15 PM MAKOTO SAITO, Osaka University

SHIGENORI SHIRATSUKA, Bank of Japan

TSUTOMU WATANABE, Hitotsubashi University

NORIYUKI YANAGAWA, University of Tokyo

Liquidity Demand and Asset Pricing: Evidence from the Periodic Settlement in Japan



Discussant: JOAO GOMES, University of Pennsylvania



4:05 PM Break



4:20 PM JAMES DOW, London Business School

GARY GORTON, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

ARVIND KRISHNAMURTHY, Northwestern University

Corporate Finance and the Term Structure of Interest Rates

Discussant: JOE HAUBRICH, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland



5:10 PM Adjourn



6:00 PM Clambake

Harvard Faculty Club

20 Quincy Street

Cambridge, MA



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