Minnesota Workshop in Macroeconomic Theory
2007
July 31 - August 3
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Tuesday, July 31
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10:30 |
Registration and Coffee |
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11:15 |
Search, Rest, and Unemployment |
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Robert Shimer
University of Chicago
Fernando Alvarez
University of Chicago |
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12:30 |
Lunch in the Carlson Executive Dining Room |
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2:00 |
Unemployment Insurance with Hidden Saving |
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Matthew Mitchell
University of Toronto Yuzhe Zhang
University of Iowa
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3:15 |
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Break |
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3:45 |
Consumption and Labor Supply with Partial Insurance: An Analytical Framework |
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Giovanni Violante
New York University Jonathan Heathcote
Georgetown University| Kjetil Storesletten
University of Oslo |
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The Barbecue |
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Wednesday, August 1 |
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9:00 |
Coffee |
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9:30 |
The Incentives to Start New Companies: Evidence from Venture Capital |
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Robert Hall
Stanford University Susan Woodward
Sand Hill Econometrics, Inc. |
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10:45 |
Break |
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11:15 |
Financial Development and Firm Dynamics: A Theoretical Analysis |
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Thomas Philippon
New York University Stern School of Business
Yuliy Sannikov
New York University Stern School of Business |
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12:30 |
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Lunch in the Carlson Executive Dining Room |
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2:00 |
Wall Street and Silicon Valley: A Delicate Interaction |
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Alessandro Pavan
Northwestern University Marios Angeletos
MIT Guido Lorenzoni
MIT |
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3:15 |
Break |
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3:45 |
Contract Enforcement and Firms' Financing |
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Cristina Arellano
University of Minnesota Yan Bai
Arizona State University Jing Zhang
University of Michigan |
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Thursday, August 2 |
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9:00 |
Coffee |
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9:30 |
Adjustment Costs and Consumption Behavior |
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Nancy Stokey
University of Chicago |
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10:45 |
Break |
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11:15 |
Why Has House Price Dispersion Gone Up |
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Pierre-Olivier Weill
UCLA Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
New York University Stern School of Business
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12:30 |
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Lunch in the Carlson Executive Dining Room |
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2:00 |
Occupational Sorting and Development |
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Jan Eeckhout
University of Pennsylvania Boyan Jovanovic
New York University |
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3:15 |
Break |
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3:45 |
Financial Integration, Financial Deepness and Global Imbalances |
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Vincenzo Quadrini
University of Southern California Marshall School Enrique Mendoza
International Monetary Fund José-Víctor Ríos -Rull
University of Minnesota |
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| The Conference Dinner |
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Friday, August 3 |
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9:00 |
Coffee |
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9:30 |
Macro Implications of Household Finance |
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Hanno Lustig
UCLA YiLi Chien
Purdue University Hal Cole
University of Pennsylvania |
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10:45 |
Break |
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11:15 |
A Simple, Unified, Exactly Solved Framework for Ten Puzzles in Macro-Finance |
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Xavier Gabaix
New York University Stern School of Business |
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12:30 |
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Lunch in the Carlson Executive Dining Room |
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2:00 |
A Search Theory of Rigid Prices |
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Guido Menzio
University of Pennsylvania |
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3:15 |
Break |
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3:45 |
Sales and the Real Effects of Monetary Policy |
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Patrick Kehoe
University of Minnesota Virgiliu Midrigan
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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