Conference Program
A Conference in Honor of Tim Kehoe
University of Minnesota Department of Economics
May 19th and 20th, 2023
Carlson Building: L-110
321 S 19th Ave
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Organizers:
Juan Carlos Conesa, Stony Brook University
Pau S. Pujolas, McMaster University
Kim Ruhl, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Friday, May 19th
9:00 am Registration and Breakfast
9:25 am Opening Remarks
Thomas J. Holmes, University of Minnesota
Morning Session Chair: Juan Carlos Conesa
9:30-10:15 am Hal Cole, University of Pennsylvania
Information Spillovers and Sovereign Debt: Theory Meets the Eurozone Crisis by H. Cole, D. Neuhann, and G. Ordonez
10:15-11:00 am David Levine, European University Institute
Limited Attention, Finite Reaction Automata and Long-Run Efficiency by D.K. Levine
11:00-11:30 am Coffee
11:30-12:15 pm Jing Zhang, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Deindustrialization and Industry Polarization by Michael Sposi, Kei-Mu Yi, and Jing Zhang
12:15-1:30 pm Lunch
Afternoon Session Chair: Kim Ruhl
1:30-2:15 pm Juan Pablo Nicolini, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Mussa meets Backus-Smith: The Role of Primary Commodity Prices by J. Ayres, C. Hevia, and J.P. Nicolini
2:15-3:00 pm José-Víctor Ríos-Rull, University of Pennsylvania
Saving for a Sunny Day: An Alternative Theory of Precautionary Savings by L. Briglia, S. Chatterjee, D. Corbae, K. Dempsey, J-V. Ríos-Rull,
3:00-3:30 pm Coffee/Refreshments Break
3:30-5:00 pm Special Three Paper Session (half hour each paper)
Timothy J. Kehoe, University of Minnesota (introduction on each paper)
Juan Carlos Conesa, Stony Brook University
Implications of Increasing College Attainment for Aging in General Equilibrium, by J.C. Conesa, T. J. Kehoe, V.M. Nygaard, and G. Raveendranathan.
Pau S. Pujolas, McMaster University
Improving Applied General Equilibrium Models of Trade Liberalization by T. J. Kehoe, P.S. Pujolas, J. Rossbach, and K. J. Ruhl
Kim Ruhl, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Firm Entry and Exit and Aggregate Growth by J. Asturias, S. Hur, and K. J. Ruhl.
Saturday, May 20th
9:00 pm Breakfast
Saturday Session Chair: Pau S. Pujolas
9:30-10:15 am Costas Arkolakis, Yale University
Clean Growth by C. Arkolakis and Conor Walsh
10:15-11:00 am Ina Simonovska, University of California, Davis
Risky Capital of Emerging Markets by F. Gerding, E. Henriksen, and I. Simonovska
11:00-11:15 am Coffee/Refreshment Break
11:15-noon Patrick Kehoe
World Financial Cycles by Y. Bai , P. Kehoe, P. Lopez, F. Perri
Adjourn