Minnesota Workshop in Macroeconomic Theory
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Minnesota Workshop in Macroeconomic Theory
2007
July 31 - August 3

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Tuesday, July 31

     
  10:30 Registration and Coffee
     
  11:15 Search, Rest, and Unemployment
     

Robert Shimer
University of Chicago Fernando Alvarez
University of Chicago

       
  12:30 Lunch in the Carlson Executive Dining Room
       
  2:00 Unemployment Insurance with Hidden Saving
     

Matthew Mitchell
University of Toronto Yuzhe Zhang
University of Iowa

       
  3:15   Break
       
  3:45

Consumption and Labor Supply with Partial Insurance:  An Analytical Framework

     

Giovanni Violante
New York University Jonathan Heathcote
Georgetown University| Kjetil Storesletten
University of Oslo

       
  The Barbecue
       

Wednesday, August 1

     
  9:00 Coffee
       
  9:30

The Incentives to Start New Companies:  Evidence from Venture Capital

     

Robert Hall
Stanford University Susan Woodward
Sand Hill Econometrics, Inc.

       
  10:45 Break
       
  11:15 Financial Development and Firm Dynamics:  A Theoretical Analysis
     

Thomas Philippon
New York University Stern School of Business Yuliy Sannikov
New York University Stern School of Business

       
  12:30   Lunch in the Carlson Executive Dining Room
       
  2:00

Wall Street and Silicon Valley: A Delicate Interaction

     

Alessandro Pavan
Northwestern University Marios Angeletos
MIT Guido Lorenzoni
MIT

       
  3:15 Break
       
  3:45

Contract Enforcement and Firms' Financing

     

Cristina Arellano
University of Minnesota Yan Bai
Arizona State University Jing Zhang
University of Michigan

 

Thursday, August 2

     
  9:00 Coffee
       
  9:30 Adjustment Costs and Consumption Behavior
     

Nancy Stokey
University of Chicago

     
  10:45 Break
       
  11:15

Why Has House Price Dispersion Gone Up

     

Pierre-Olivier Weill
UCLA Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
New York University Stern School of Business

       
  12:30   Lunch in the Carlson Executive Dining Room
       
  2:00

Occupational Sorting and Development

     

Jan Eeckhout
University of Pennsylvania Boyan Jovanovic
New York University

       
  3:15 Break
       
  3:45

Financial Integration, Financial Deepness and Global Imbalances

     

Vincenzo Quadrini
University of Southern California Marshall School Enrique Mendoza
International Monetary Fund José-Víctor Ríos -Rull
University of Minnesota

 
The Conference Dinner
 

Friday, August 3

     
  9:00 Coffee
       
  9:30 Macro Implications of Household Finance
     

Hanno Lustig
UCLA YiLi Chien
Purdue University Hal Cole
University of Pennsylvania

       
  10:45 Break
       
  11:15 A Simple, Unified, Exactly Solved Framework for Ten Puzzles in Macro-Finance
      Xavier Gabaix
New York University Stern School of Business
       
  12:30   Lunch in the Carlson Executive Dining Room
       
  2:00 A Search Theory of Rigid Prices
      Guido Menzio
University of Pennsylvania
       
  3:15 Break
       
  3:45 Sales and the Real Effects of Monetary Policy
     

Patrick Kehoe
University of Minnesota Virgiliu Midrigan
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 9, 2008

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

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