NATIONAL
BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
Twenty-fourth
Annual Conference on Macroeconomics
Daron
Acemoglu, Kenneth Rogoff and Michael Woodford, Organizers
April
10-11, 2009
The
Royal Sonesta Hotel
Riverfront
Room
PRELIMINARY
PROGRAM
FRIDAY APRIL 10:
8:30 am Continental
Breakfast
9:00 am JOHN GEANAKOPLOS,
Discussants: FRANKLIN ALLEN,
HYUN
SHIN,
10:30 am Break
11:00 am CHRISTOPHER FOOTE, Federal Reserve Bank
of
KRISTOPHER GERARDI,
Federal Reserve Bank of
LORENZ GOETTE, Federal
Reserve Bank of
PAUL WILLEN, Federal Reserve
Bank of
Discussants: CHRISTOPHER MAYER,
ATIF MIAN,
12:30 pm Lunch Charles Suites
2:00 pm EFFI
BENMELECH,
JENNIFER DLUGOSZ,
Discussants: ADAM ASHCRAFT, Federal Reserve Bank of
BENGT
HOLMSTROM, MIT and NBER
3:30 pm Break
4:00 pm FATIH
GUVENEN,
BURHANETTIN KURUSCU,
A Quantitative Analysis of the Evolution of the
US Wage Distribution: 1970-2000
Discussants: DAVID AUTOR, MIT and NBER
FRANCESCO
CASELLI,
5:30 pm Adjourn
6:00 pm Reception
and Group Dinner Parkview Room
Dinner speaker: FREDERIC
MISHKIN,
The Financial Crisis and the Federal Reserve
SATURDAY APRIL 11:
8:30 am Continental
Breakfast
9:00 am GEORGE-MARIOS ANGELETOS, MIT and
NBER
JENNIFER LAO, MIT
Discussants: CHRISTIAN HELLWIG, UC,
ROBERT
KING,
10:30 am Break
11:00 am PAUL BEAUDRY,
BERND LUCKE,
Letting Different Views about Business Cycles
Complete (appendix)
Discussants: JONAS FISHER, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
STEPHANIE
SCHMITT-GROHE,
12:30 pm Adjourn
4/9/09