NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting

John Cochrane and Janice Eberly, Organizers

October 22, 2004

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

230 South LaSalle Street

Chicago, Illinois

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21:

6:30 PM Reception and Dinner

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22:

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM ROBERT HALL, Stanford University and NBER

CHARLES JONES, UC, Berkeley and NBER

The Value of Life and the Rise in Health Spending

Discussant: TOMAS PHILIPSON, University of Chicago and NBER

10:00 AM Coffee Break

10:30 AM DAVID ALTIG, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

LAWRENCE CHRISTIANO, Northwestern University and NBER

MARTIN EICHENBAUM, Northwestern University and NBER

JESPER LINDE, Sveriges Riksbank

Firm-Specific Capital, Nominal Rigidities and the Business Cycle

Discussant: MICHAEL WOODFORD, Princeton University and NBER

11:30 AM DIEGO COMIN, New York University and NBER

BART HOBIJN, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Neoclassical Growth and the Adoption of Technologies

Discussant: SAMUEL KORTUM, University of Minnesota and NBER

12:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM MARCO CAGETTI, University of Virginia

MARIACRISTINA DE NARDI, University of Minnesota

Taxation, Entrepreneurship, and Wealth

Discussant: ERIK HURST, University of Chicago and NBER

2:30 PM Coffee Break

3:00 PM MARK AGUIAR, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

GITA GOPINATH, University of Chicago and NBER

Emerging Market Business Cycles: The Cycle is the Trend

Discussant: FABRIZIO PERRI, New York University and NBER

4:00 PM MARCO BASSETTO, University of Minnesota

THOMAS SARGENT, New York University and NBER

Politics and Efficiency of Separating Capital and Ordinary Government Budgets

Discussant: MANUEL AMADOR, Stanford University

5:00 PM Adjourn

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