NATIONAL
BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER
INSTITUTE 2003
NBER Economic Fluctuations and Growth
Macro Perspectives Workshop
Richard Rogerson and Randall Wright,
Organizers
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge,
Massachusetts
July 21 25, 2003
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
MONDAY, JULY 21:
12:00 N Lunch
1:00 PM ROBERT
HALL, Stanford University and NBER
Wage
Determination and Employment Fluctuations
2:00 PM CHRIS
PISSARIDES, London School of Economics
Productivity
Growth and Employment: Theory and Panel Estimates
3:00 PM Break
3:15 PM RASMUS
LENTZ, Boston University
DALE
MORTENSEN, Northwestern University
Firm
Productivity, Wages, Worker Flows and Size
4:15 PM ROBERT
SHIMER, University of Chicago and NBER
IVAN
WERNING, MIT and NBER
Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Sequential Search
5:15 PM Adjourn
TUESDAY, JULY 22:
12:00 N Lunch
1:00 PM BOYAN JOVANOVIC, New York Univeristy
and NBER
2:00 PM JAN
EECKHOUT, University of Pennsylvania
3:00 PM Break
3:15 PM JIM
ALBRECHT, PIETER GAUTIER and SUSAN VROMAN,
Georgetown
University
Equilibrium
Directed Search
4:15 PM GEORGE
ALESSANDRIA, Ohio State University
ALAIN
DELACROIX, Purdue University
Welfare
Losses From Labor Market Policies in an Open Economy and the Adoption of
Policies
5:15 PM Adjourn
WEDNESDAY JULY 23:
12:00 N Lunch
1:00 PM KENNETH
BURDETT, University of Pennsylvania
RYOICHI
IMAI, Kyushu University
RANDALL
WRIGHT University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Unstable
Relationships
2:00 PM MICHELLE
ALEXOPOULIS, University of Toronto
TRICIA GLADDEN, University of Missouri-Columbia
Wealth,
Reservation Wages, and Labor Market Transitions in the US:
Evidence from the
Survey of Income and Program Participation
3:00 PM Break
3:15 PM LINDA WONG,
University of Chicago
An
Empirical Study of Darwins Theory of Mate Choice
4:15 PM MICHAEL
PRIES, University of Maryland
RICHARD
ROGERSON, Arizona State University and NBER
Search
Durations and Labor Market Participation
5:15 PM Adjourn
6:00 PM Clambake,
Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
THURSDAY, JULY 24:
12:00 N Lunch
1:00 PM LARRY JONES,
University of Minnesota and NBER
RODOLFO
MANUELLI, University of Wisconsin and NBER
ELLEN
MCGRATTAN, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER
Why
are Married Women Working So Much?
2:00 PM GUEORGUI
KAMBOUROV, University of Toronto
IOURRI MANOVSKI, University of
Pennsylvania
Occupational Mobility and Wage
Inequality
3:00 PM Break
3:15 PM GADI
BARLEVY, Northwestern University and NBER
Estimating
Search Models with On-the-Job Search
4:15 PM JOHANNES
HORNER, Northwestern University
RACHEL
NGAI, London School of Economics
CLAUDIA
OLIVETTI, Boston University
Public
Enterprises and Labor Market Performance
5:15 PM Adjourn
FRIDAY, JULY 25:
12:00 N Lunch
1:00 PM ROBERT SHIMER, University of Chicago
and NBER
2:00 PM GIUSEPPE
MOSCARINI, Yale University
Job-to-Job
Quits and Corporate Culture
3:00 PM Break
3:15 PM RYOICHI
IMAI, Kyushu University
Endogenous
Education and Job Creation
4:15 PM SHIGERU
FUJITA, UC, San Diego
The
Beveridge Curve, Job Creation and the Propagation of Shocks
5:15 PM Adjourn