NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting

Steven Davis and Charles Jones, Organizers

February 3, 2006

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

101 Market Street

San Francisco, California

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3:

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM MARK AGUIAR, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

ERIK HURST, University of Chicago and NBER

Lifecycle Prices and Production

Discussant: RICHARD ROGERSON, Arizona State University and NBER

10:00 AM Coffee Break

10:30 AM JONATHAN HEATHCOTE, Georgetown University

KJETIL STORESLETTEN, University of Oslo

GIOVANNI VIOLANTE, New York University

Insurance and Opportunities:

The Welfare Implications of Rising Wage Dispersion

Discussant: ORAZIO ATTANASIO, University College London and NBER

11:30 AM EMMANUEL FARHI, MIT

IVAN WERNING, MIT and NBER

Inequality, Social Discounting and Progressive Estate Taxation

Discussant: EMMANUEL SAEZ, UC, Berkeley and NBER

12:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM STIJN VAN NIEUWERBURGH and LAURA VELDKAMP, New York University

Information Immobility and the Home Bias Puzzle

Discussant: PIERRE-OLIVIER GOURINCHAS, UC, Berkeley and NBER

2:30 PM Coffee Break

3:00 PM LARS LJUNGQVIST, Stockholm School of Economics

THOMAS SARGENT, New York University and NBER

Jobs and Unemployment in Macroeconomic Theory:

A Turbulence Laboratory

Discussant: ROBERT HALL, Stanford University and NBER

4:00 PM ROBERT SHIMER, University of Chicago and NBER

Mismatch

Discussant: RICARDO LAGOS, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and New York University

5:00 PM Adjourn

6:30 PM Group Dinner

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