2000

Organizers: Narayana Kocherlakota, Jaume Ventura

Tuesday, August 1

Robustness and Pricing when Growth is Hidden

Marco Cagetti
The University of Chicago
Lars Hansen
The University of Chicago
Thomas Sargent
Stanford University
Noah Williams
The University of Chicago

Tax Policy with Quasi-Geometric Discounting

Per Krusell
University of Rochester
Burhanettin Kuruscu
University of Rochester
Tony Smith
CarnegieMellon University

The Social Discount Rate

Andrew Caplin
NYU
John Leahy
Boston University

Wednesday, August 2

Trade in Capital Goods

Jonathan Eaton
Boston University
Samuel Kortum
Boston University

A Game-Theoretic View of the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level

Marco Bassetto
Northwestern University

Matching and Money

Dean Corbae
University of Pittsburgh
Ted Temzelides
University of Iowa
Randall Wright
University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, August 3

Deunionization, Technical Change and Inequality

Daron Acemoglu
MIT
Philippe Aghion
Harvard University
Giovanni Violante
University College, London

The Survival of the Welfare State

John Hassler
IIES
Jose V. Rodriguez Mora
IIES
Kjetil Storesletten
IIES
Fabrizio Zilibotti
IIES

Advertising, Mass Consumption, and Capitalism: Some Unpleasant Modernist Arithmetics

Jess Benhabib
New York University
Alberto Bisin
New York University

Friday, August 4

Limited Enforceability, Heterogeneity and the Macroeconomy

Thomas Cooley
New York University
Ramon Marimon
EUI
Vincenzo Quadrini
Duke University

Industrial Revolutions and Demographic Transitions

Michelle Connolly
Duke University
Pietro Perretto
Duke University

A (S,s) Model of Commodity Price Speculation

George Hall
Yale University
John Rust
Yale University

Saturday, August 5

Technology and the Stock Market: 1885-1998

Boyan Jovanovic
New York University
Peter Rousseau
Vanderbilt University

An Uncertainty Driven Theory of the Productivity Slowdown: Manufacturing

Diego Comin
Harvard University

The World Technology Frontier

Francesco Caselli
The University of Chicago
John Coleman
Duke University