THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4:
6:30 PM Dinner
Davio's
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, MA 02142
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5:
8:15 AM Shuttle Van from the Royal Sonesta to NBER
8:30 AM Shuttle Van from the Royal Sonesta to NBER
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM TOM KREBS, Brown University
Job Displacement Risk and the Cost of Business Cycles
Discussant: LAWRENCE KATZ, Harvard University and NBER
10:00 AM Break
10:20 AM DANIEL LEVY, Bar-Llan University
HAIPENG (ALLAN) CHEN, University of Miami
SOURAV RAY, McMaster University
MARK BERGEN, University of Minnesota
Asymmetric Price Adjustment in the Small:
An Implication of Rational Inattention
Discussant: STEPHEN CECCHETTI, Brandeis University and NBER
11:20 AM Break
11:40 AM ANDREW LEVIN and FABIO NATALUCCI, Federal Reserve Board
EGON ZAKRAJSEK, Board of Governors
The Magnitude and Cyclical Behavior of Financial Market Frictions
Discussant: JANICE EBERLY, Northwestern University and NBER
Monetary Economics Program, Page 2:
12:40 PM Lunch
1:40 PM FRANCIS DIEBOLD, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
GLENN RUDEBUSCH, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
S. BORAGAN ARUOBA, University of Maryland
The Macroeconomy and the Yield Curve:
A Dynamic Latent Factor Approach
Discussant: MARK WATSON, Princeton University and NBER
2:40 PM Break
3:00 PM N.GREGORY MANKIW, Harvard University and NBER
MATT WEINZIERL, Harvard University
Dynamic Scoring: A Back-of-the-Envelope Guide
Discussant: BRADFORD DELONG UC, Berkeley and NBER
4:00 PM Adjourn
9/21/04