NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2002
Income Distribution and Macroeconomics
Roland Benabou, Steven Durlauf and Oded Galor, Organizers
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 22 - 24, 2002
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
MONDAY, JULY 22:
GROWTH AND DISTRIBUTION
8:30 AM Coffee and Pastries
9:00 AM DARON ACEMOGLU and SIMON JOHNSON, MIT and NBERJAMES ROBINSON, UC, Berkeley
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM GRAZIELLA BERTOCCHI, Universita di Modena
The Law of Primogeniture and the Transition from Landed Aristocracy
to Industrial Democracy
11:15 AM Break
11:30 AM ODED GALOR, Brown University
OMER MOAV, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
DIETRICH VOLLRATH, Brown University
Land Abundance as a Hurdle for Education Reform
12:30 PM Lunch
CITIES AND LOCAL INTERACTIONS
1:30 PM STEVEN DURLAUF, University of Wisconsin and NBER
The Econometrics of Social Interactions
2:30 PM Break
2:45 PM DENIS FOUGERE, FRANCIS KRAMARZ,and JULIEN POUGET, INSEE
Criminality and the Social Environment in France
SI02 EFBDG program
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3:45 PM Break
4:00PM FRANCOIS ORTALO-MAGNE, London School of Economics
SVEN RADY, University of Munich
Homeownership: Volatile Housing Prices, Low Labor Mobility and
High Income Dispersion
5:00PM Adjourn
TUESDAY, JULY 23:
POLITICAL ECONOMY
12:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM ROLAND BENABOU, Princeton University and NBER
JEAN TIROLE, Universite de Toulouse
To Be Announced
2:30 PM Break
2:45 PM EDWARD GLAESER, Harvard University and NBER
JOSE SCHEINKMAN, Princeton University
ANDREI SHLEIFER, Harvard University and NBER
3:45 PM Break
4:00 PM ANDREA VINDIGNI, Universite de Toulouse
Uncertainty and the Politics of Employment Protection
5:00 PM Adjourn
WEDNESDAY, JULY 24:
FIRMS AND WORKERS
8:30 AM Coffee and Pastries
9:00 AM OLIVIER BLANCHARD, MIT and NBER
THOMAS PHILIPPON, MIT
The Decline of Rents
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM XAVIER GABAIX, MIT and NBER
A Simple Theory of the "Cubic"Laws of Stock Market Activity
Understanding Large Movements in Stock Market Activity
(Joint with Parameswaran Gopikrishnan, Vasiliki Plerou, H.Eugene Stanley, Boston University
SI02 EFBDG program
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11:15 AM Break
11:30 AM ANDREAS HORNSTEIN, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
PER KRUSELL, University of Rochester
GIANLUCA VIOLANTE, University College, London
Capital as an Origin of Inequalities
12:30 PM Lunch
EDUCATION AND FAMILY DYNAMICS
1:30 PM LOUISE KEELY, University of Wisconsin
2:30 PM Break
2:45 PM CHANG-TAI HSIEH, Princeton University
MIGUEL URQUIOLA, Cornell University
When School Compete, How do They Compete?
3:45 PM Break
4:00 PM BRUCE WEINBERG, Ohio State University
Experience and Technology Adoption
5:00 PM Adjourn
6:00 PM Clambake
Harvard Faculty Club
20 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA
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