Minnesota Workshop in Macroeconomic Theory
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Tuesday, August 2

Pictures from the Conference

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 VigfussonFederal Reserve Board


A,B,C's (and D's)'s for Understanding VARS 

 

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde
University of Pennsylvania Juan Rubio- Ramírez
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Thomas 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
  Emmanual Fahri
MIT Ivan Werning
MIT

Saturday, August 6

The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies Revisited
 

Markus Hagedorn
University of 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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Minnesota Workshop in Macroeconomic Theory
May 9, 2008

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation,
the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and the University of Minnesota.

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