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2006

Tuesday, August 1

Household Heterogeneity and Real Exchange Rates

Narayana Kocherlakota
University of Minnesota

Luigi Pistaferri
Stanford University

The lecture hall
 

Adjusting to Capital
Account Liberalization


Kosuke Aoki
London School of Economics

Gianluca Benigno
London School of Economics

Nobu Kiyotaki
London School of Economics

   
Cross Section of Risk Premia

Hanno Lustig
UCLA

Adrien Verdelhan
Boston University

 

Wednesday, August 2


Francesco Buero, Jess Benhabib, and another economist.
  The Economics of Social Networks
  Matthew Jackson
CalTech

  Learning from Private and Public Observations of Others Actions

 

Manuel Amador
Stanford University

Pierre-Olivier Weill
NYU - Stern School of Business

 
  The Rise of the Service Economy
 

Francisco Buera
Northwestern University

Joe Kaboski
Ohio State University

 

Thursday, August 3

   
The Distribution of Wealth and Redistributive Policies
 

Jess Benhabib
New York University

Alberto Bisin
New York University

   
Sources of Lifetime Inequality
 

Mark Huggett
Georgetown University

Gustavo Ventura
Pennsylvania State University

Amir Yaron
University of Pennsylvania Wharton School

   
   
Understanding Wage Inequality: Ben-Porath Meets Skill-Biased Technical Change
 

Fatih Guvenen
University of Texas-Austin

Burhanettin Kuruscu
University of Texas-Austin

 

 

 

Friday, August 4

On the Return to Venture Capital   Nobu and Ed
 

Boyan Jovanovic
New York University

Balazs Szentes
University of Chicago

 
     
Selection, Growth and the Size Distribution of Firms  
 

Erzo Luttmer
University of Minnesota

 
     
Why Has CEO Pay Increased So Much?  
 

Xavier Gabaix
MIT

Agustin Landier
NYU - Stern School of Business

 

 

Saturday, August 5

   
Do Taxes Explain European Employment? Indivisible Labor, Human Capital, Lotteries, and Savings
 

Lars Ljungqvist
Stockholm School of Economics

Thomas Sargent
New York University

   
Mismatch
  Robert Shimer
University of Chicago
   
Work-Consumption Preferences and Employment Volatility
  Robert Hall
Hoover Institute, Stanford University
 

 

 

 

May 9, 2008

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