NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting
Andrew Abel and Valerie Ramey, Organizers
July 19, 2003
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, Massachusetts
PROGRAM
FRIDAY, JULY 18:
6:30 PM Reception and Dinner
Royal Sonesta Hotel
SATURDAY, JULY 19:
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM LAURA VELDKAMP, INSEAD
Media Frenzies in Markets for Financial Information
Discussant: JOHN LEAHY, New York University and NBER
10:00 AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM MARKUS BRUNNERMEIER, Princeton University
JONATHAN PARKER, Princeton University and NBER
Discussant: DAVID LAIBSON, Harvard University and NBER
11:30 AM FATIH GUVENEN, University of Rochester
A Parsimonious Macroeconomic Model for Asset Pricing:
Habit Formation or Cross-Sectional Heterogeneity?
Discussant: JOHN CAMPBELL, Harvard University and NBER
12:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM CHANG-TAI HSIEH, Princeton University and NBER
PETER KLENOW, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER
Relative Prices and Relative Prosperity
Discussant: SAMUEL KORTUM, University of Minnesota and NBER
2:30 PM Coffee Break
3:00 PM ROBERT HALL, Stanford University and NBER
Wage Determination and Employment Fluctuations
Discussant: GAREY RAMEY, UC, San Diego
4:00 PM OLIVIER BLANCHARD, MIT and NBER
THOMAS PHILIPPON, MIT
The Decline of Rents, and the Rise and Fall of European Unemployment
Discussant: JORDI GALI, CREI and NBER
5:00 PM Adjourn
6/30/03