NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Macroeconomics and Individual Decision Making Conference
George Akerlof and Robert Shiller, Organizers
November 6, 2004
NBER
2nd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
PROGRAM
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6:
8:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Massachusetts Avenue
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM ROLAND BENABOU, Princeton University and NBER
JEAN TIROLE, Institut d'Economie Industrielle
Incentives and Prosocial Behavior
Discussant: ROLAND FRYER, Harvard University and NBER
10:00 AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM PAOLA GIULIANO, IMF
On the Determinants of Living Arrangements in Western Europe:
Does Cultural Origin Matter?
Discussant: ALBERTO ALESINA, Harvard University and NBER
11:30 AM MILES KIMBALL and
MATTHEW SHAPIRO, University of Michigan and NBER
Are the Income and Substitution Effects Both Large or Both Small?
Discussant: JOSEPH ALTONJI, Yale University and NBER
12:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM JEFFREY LIEBMAN and
RICHARD ZECKHAUSER, Harvard University and NBER
Discussant: ROBERT HALL, Stanford University and NBER
2:30 PM Coffee Break
3:00 PM LUIGI GUISO, University of Sassari
PAOLA SAPIENZA, Northwestern University
LUIGI ZINGALES, University of Chicago and NBER
Cultural Biases in Economic Exchange
Discussant: MARIANNE BAXTER, Boston University and NBER
4:00 PM PAUL HEIDHUES, WZB, Berlin
BOTOND KOSZEGI, UC, Berkeley
The Impact of Consumer Loss Aversion on Pricing
Discussant: WOLFGANG PESENDORFER, Princeton University
5:00 PM Adjourn
10/18/04