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RESEARCH, INC.
Economic Fluctuations and
Growth Research Meeting
Erik Hurst and Matthew Shapiro, Organizers
Royal Sonesta Hotel
Grand Ballroom A
Program
Friday, July
16:
6:30 pm Reception and Dinner
Riverfront Room
Saturday,
July 17:
8:30 am Continental
Breakfast
9:00
am Christopher Nekarda,
Federal Reserve Board
Valerie Ramey, UC, San Diego
and NBER
The Cyclical Behavior of the
Price-Cost Markup
Discussant: Susanto Basu, Boston College and NBER
10:00 am Break
10:30
am Olivier Coibion, College of
William and Mary
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, UC,
Berkeley and NBER
Johannes Wieland, UC,
Berkeley
The Optimal Inflation
Rate in New Keynesian Models
Discussant: Jordi Gali, CREI and NBER
11:30 am Jeremy
Stein, Harvard University and NBER
Monetary
Policy as Financial-Stability Regulation
Discussant: Mark Gertler, New York University and NBER
12:30 pm Lunch - Grand Ballroom B
1:30
pm Raj Chetty, Harvard
University and NBER
Discussant: Richard Rogerson, Arizona State University
and NBER
2:30 pm Break
3:00 pm Jonathan
Eaton, Pennsylvania State University and NBER
Sam Kortum, University of Chicago
and NBER
Brent Neiman, University of
Chicago and NBER
John Romalis, University of
Chicago and NBER
Trade and the Global
Recession
Discussant:
Andrei Levchenko, University of Michigan and NBER
4:00 pm Charles
Jones, Stanford University and NBER
Peter Klenow, Stanford
University and NBER
Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and Time
Discussant: Mark Aguiar, University of Rochester and
NBER
5:00
pm Adjourn