2005
Organizers: George Marios Angeletos, Randy Wright
Tuesday, August 2
A Critique of Structural VARs Using Real Business Cycle Theory
- Patrick Kehoe (University of Minnesota and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
- V. V. Chari (University of Minnesota and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
- Ellen McGrattan (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
Assessing Structural VARs
- Lawrence Christiano (Northwestern University)
- Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University)
- Rob Vigfusson (Federal Reserve Board)
A,B,C's (and D's)'s for Understanding VARS
- Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde (University of Pennsylvania)
- Juan Rubio-Ramirez (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
- Tom Sargent (New York University)
Wednesday, August 3
Contracts and the Division of Labor
- Pol Antras (Harvard University)
- Daron Acemoglu (MIT)
- Elhanan Helpman (Harvard University)
Trade Costs, Pricing to Market, and International Relative Prices
- Ariel Burstein (UCLA)
- Andrew Atkeson (UCLA)
Rare Events and the Equity Premium
- Robert Barro (Harvard University)
Thursday, August 4
Vehicle Currency
- Shouyong Shi (University of Toronto)
- Michael Devereux (University of British Columbia)
State-Dependent Pricing, Inflation and Welfare in Search Economies
- Guillaume Rocheteau (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)
- Ben Craig (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)
Monetary Policy and Distribution
- Stephen D. Williamson (University of Iowa)
Friday, August 5
Social Change
- Nezih Guner (Pennsylvania State University)
- Jeremy Greenwood (University of Rochester)
Markets as Beneficial Constraints on the Government
-
Adriano Rampini (Northwestern University)
- Alberto Bisin (New York University)
Inequality and Social Discounting
- Emmanuel Farhi (MIT)
- Ivan Werning (MIT)
Saturday, August 6
The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies Revisited
- Markus Hagedorn (University Bonn)
- Iourii Manovskii (University of Pennsylvania)
Directed Labor Search with Multiple Job Applications
-
Philip Kircher (University of Bonn)
- Manolis Galenianos (University of Pennsylvania)
A Model of Job and Worker Flows
- Ricardo Lagos (New York University and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
- Nobu Kiyotaki (London School of Economics)
