NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting
Mark Bils and Matthew Shapiro, Organizers
July 17, 2004
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, Massachusetts
PROGRAM
FRIDAY, JULY 16:
6:30 PM Reception and Dinner
Royal Sonesta Hotel
SATURDAY, JULY 17:
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM DAVID JOHNSON, Bureau of Labor Statistics
JONATHAN PARKER, Princeton University and NBER
NICHOLAS SOULELES, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Household Expenditure and the Income Tax Rebates of 2001
Discussant: NICOLA FUCHS-SCHUNDELN, Yale University
10:00 AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM MARCO BATTAGLINI, Princeton University
STEPHEN COATE, Yale University and NBER
Pareto Efficient Income Taxation with Stochastic Abilities
Discussant: NARAYANA KOCHERLAKOTA, Stanford University and NBER
11:30 AM GIORGIO PRIMICERI, Princeton University
Policymakers' Beliefs and US Postwar Stabilization Policy
Discussant: ERIC LEEPER, Indiana University and NBER
12:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM CHRISTINA ROMER and DAVID ROMER, UC, Berkeley and NBER
A New Measure of Monetary Shocks:
Derivation and Implications
Discussant: JOHN COCHRANE, University of Chicago and NBER
2:30 PM Coffee Break
3:00 PM YONGSUNG CHANG, ANDREAS HORNSTEIN, and
PIERRE-DANIEL SARTE, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Productivity, Employment, and Inventories
Discussant: VALERIE RAMEY, UC, San Diego and NBER
4:00 PM RICARDO CABALLERO, MIT and NBER
EDUARDO ENGEL,Yale University and NBER
Adjustment is Much Slower than You Think
Discussant: ROBERT HALL, Stanford University and NBER
5:00 PM Adjourn
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