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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC
RESEARCH, INC |
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SUMMER INSTITUTE 2009 |
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Aggregate Implications of
Microeconomic Consumption Behavior Workshop |
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Orazio Attanasio, Christopher
Carroll, and Jose-Victor Rios-Rull, Organizers |
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Royal Sonesta Hotel |
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PROGRAM |
MONDAY,
JULY 13: |
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8:15 am |
Coffee
and Pastries |
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Joint with the Conference on
Research on Income and Wealth |
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8:45 am |
ORAZIO ATTANASIO, |
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Opening Remarks |
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9:15 am |
KAREN GOLDENBERG, Bureau of Labor Statistics |
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JAY RYAN, Bureau of Labor Statistics |
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Evolution and Change in the Consumer
Expenditure Surveys: Adapting Methodologies to Meet Changing Needs |
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THESIA
GARNER, Bureau of Labor Statistics |
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WILLIAM
PASSERO, Bureau of Labor Statistics |
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Strengths and Weaknesses of the CE
from a BLS Perspective |
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10:15 am |
Break |
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10:45 am |
PANEL DISCUSSION |
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JAMES POTERBA (Chair), MIT and NBER |
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BARRY BOSWORTH, Brookings Institution |
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CHRISTOPHER CARROLL, |
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J. STEPHEN LANDEFELD, Bureau of Economic Analysis |
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JONATHAN PARKER. Northwestern University and NBER |
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12:15 am |
ROBERT MCCLELLAND, Bureau of Labor
Statistics |
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Reply and Final
Thoughts |
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12:30 pm |
Lunch |
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1:30 pm |
ERICH BATTISTIN, |
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MARIO PADULA, |
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Survey Instruments
and the Reports of Consumption Expenditures: |
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Evidence from the
Consumer Expenditure Surveys |
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Discussant: DAVID JOHNSON, Bureau of the Census |
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2:30 pm |
MICHAEL
HURD,
Rand Corporation and NBER |
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SUSANN ROHWEDDER, Rand Corporation |
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Methodological Innovations in Collecting Spending Data: |
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The HRS Consumption and Activities Mail Survey |
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Discussant: FRANK STAFFORD, University of Michigan |
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3:30 pm |
Break |
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4:00 pm |
BRUCE D. MEYER, |
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JAMES X. SULLIVAN, |
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Five Decades of
Consumption and Income Poverty |
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Discussant: TIMOTHY SMEEDING, |
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5:00 pm |
Adjourn |
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TUESDAY, JULY 14: |
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8:30 am |
Coffee
and Pastries |
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9:00 am |
JONATHAN PARKER, Northwestern and NBER |
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ANNETTE VISSING-JORGENSEN, Northwestern and
NBER |
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NICHOLAS
ZIEBARTH, Northwestern University |
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Inequality in Expenditure in the
Twentieth Century |
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10:00 am |
Break |
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10:15 am |
VINCENZO QUADRINI, |
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Health insurance and
Entrepreneurship |
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11:15 am |
Break |
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11:30 am |
HAMISH
LOW, |
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LUIGI
PISTAFERRI, |
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Disability Risk, Disability
Insurance and Life Cycle Behavior |
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12:30 pm |
Lunch |
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1:30 pm |
JONATHAN
SKINNER, |
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VICTOR STANGO, UC, Davis |
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JONATHAN
ZINMAN, |
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Consumption
and the Housing Wealth Collapse |
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2:15 pm |
DEAN
KARLAN, |
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MARGARET
McCONNELL, California Institute of Technology |
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SENDHIL
MULLAINATHAN, |
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JONATHAN ZINMAN, |
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Getting to the Top of Mind:
Limited Attention, Borrowing, and Saving |
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3:00 pm |
Break |
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3:15 pm |
ATIF MIAN
and AMIR SUFI, |
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House
Prices, Home Equity-Based Borrowing, and the U.S. Household Leverage Crisis |
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4:00 pm |
SHANE
JENSEN, |
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Changes in the Distribution of
Income Volatility |
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4:45 pm |
Adjourn |
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 15: |
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8:30 am |
Coffee
and Pastries |
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9:00 am |
DMYTRO HRYSHKO, |
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RIP to HIP: The Data Reject
Heterogeneous Labor Income Profiles |
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9:45 am |
JAMES
FEIGENBAUM, |
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GENG LI, Federal Reserve Bank |
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Semiparametric Characterizations
of Income Dynamics |
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10:30 am |
Break |
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10:45 am |
SATYAJIT CHATTERJEE, Federal Reserve Bank of |
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FELICIA
IONESCU, |
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11:30 am |
ALEJANDRO BADEL, |
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12:15 pm |
Lunch and
Adjourn |
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6:00 pm |
Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, |
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THURSDAY, JULY 15: |
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8:30 am |
Coffee |
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9:00 am |
DEAN CORBAE, |
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ERWAN
QUINTIN, Federal Reserve Bank of |
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10:00 am |
Break |
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10:15 am |
MATTEO IACOVIELLO, |
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Housing and
Debt over the Life Cycle and over the Business Cycle |
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11:15 am |
Break |
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11:30 am |
MARCUS
HAGEDORN, |
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IOURII MANOVSKI, |
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Wages over the Business Cycle:
Spot Markets? |
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12:30 pm |
Lunch and
Adjourn |
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FRIDAY, JULY 16: |
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8:30 am |
Coffee
and Pastries |
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9:00 am |
THOMAS HINTERMAIER, Institue for Advanced Studies, |
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WINFRIED
KOENIGER, |
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9:30 am |
ETHAN
COHEN-COLE, |
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BURCU DUYGAN-BUMP and JUDIT MONTORIOL-GARRIGA, |
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Federal
Reserve Bank of |
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Forgive
and Forget: Who Gets Credit after Bankruptcy and Why? |
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10:00 am |
Break |
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10:15 am |
SONG HAN and GENG LI, Federal Reserve Board |
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Household Borrowing after Personal
Bankruptcy |
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11:15 am |
Break |
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11:30 am |
JOCHEN MANKART, |
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GIACOMO
RODANO, Banca d'Italia and LSE |
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Personal
Bankruptcy Law, Debt Portfolios and Entrepreneurship |
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12:15 pm |
Lunch and
Adjourn |
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5/28/09 |
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