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

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, MA

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY APRIL 10:

 

 8:30 am          Continental Breakfast

 

 9:00 am          JOHN GEANAKOPLOS, Yale University

                        The Leverage Cycle

 

                        Discussants:  FRANKLIN ALLEN, University of Pennsylvania

                                                HYUN SHIN, Princeton University

 

10:30 am         Break

 

11:00 am         CHRISTOPHER FOOTE, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

                        KRISTOPHER GERARDI, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

                        LORENZ GOETTE, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

                        PAUL WILLEN, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and NBER

                        Reducing Foreclosures

 

                        Discussants:   CHRISTOPHER MAYER, Columbia University and NBER

                                                 ATIF MIAN, University of Chicago and NBER

 

12:30 pm         Lunch – Charles Suites

 

 2:00 pm          EFFI BENMELECH, Harvard University and NBER

                        JENNIFER DLUGOSZ, Harvard University

                        The Credit Rating Crisis

 

                        Discussants:  ADAM ASHCRAFT, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

                                                BENGT HOLMSTROM, MIT and NBER

 

 3:30 pm          Break

 

 4:00 pm          FATIH GUVENEN, University of Minnesota and NBER

                        BURHANETTIN KURUSCU, University of Texas at Austin

                        A Quantitative Analysis of the Evolution of the US Wage Distribution: 1970-2000

 

                        Discussants:  DAVID AUTOR, MIT and NBER

                                                FRANCESCO CASELLI, London School of Economics and NBER

 

 5:30 pm          Adjourn

 

 6:00 pm          Reception and Group Dinner – Parkview Room

                        Dinner speaker: FREDERIC MISHKIN, Columbia University and NBER

                        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 LA’O, MIT

                        Noisy Business Cycles

           

                        Discussants:  CHRISTIAN HELLWIG, UC, Los Angeles

                                                ROBERT KING, Boston University and NBER

 

10:30 am         Break

 

11:00 am         PAUL BEAUDRY, University of British Columbia and NBER

                        BERND LUCKE, University of Hamburg

                        Letting Different Views about Business Cycles Complete (appendix)

                       

 

                        Discussants:  JONAS FISHER, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

                                                STEPHANIE SCHMITT-GROHE, Columbia University and NBER

 

12:30 pm         Adjourn

 

 

 

 

4/9/09