2002

Organizers: Michele Boldrin, Robert Shimer

Tuesday, July 30

Understanding European Real Exchange Rates

Mario J. Crucini
Vanderbilt University
Chris Telmer
Carnegie Mellon University
Marios Zachariades
Louisiana State University

A Unified Framework for Monetary Theory and Policy Analysis

Ricardo Lagos
New York University
Randall Wright
University of Pennsylvania

Can a Baumol-Tobin Model Account for the Short-Run Behavior of Velocity?

Fernando Alvarez
University of Chicago and NBER
Andrew Atkeson
University of California, Los Angeles
Chris Edmond
University of California, Los Angeles

Wednesday, July 31

The Opportunity Cost of Funds and the Demand for Risky Assets

Steven Davis
University of Chicago
Felix Kubler
Stanford University
Paul Willen
University of Chicago

Growth and Welfare Effects of Business Cycles in Economies with Idiosyncratic Human Capital Risk

Thomas Krebs
Brown University

Heckscher-Ohlin Business Cycles Alejando CuñatLSE, CEP, and CEPR

Marco Maffezzoli
IEP-Universitá Bocconi

Thursday, August 1

Skill and Luck in the Theory of Turnover

Giuseppe Moscarini
Yale University

Directed Search on the Job and Wage Dispersion

Alain Delacroix
Purdue University
Shouyoung Shi
Indiana University

The Cost of Employment Protection in the Presence of Match-Specific

Eva Nagypal
IIES

Friday, August 2

R & D? A Small Contribution to Productivity Growth

Diego Comin
New York University

Pursuing Problems in Growth

Louise C. Keeley
University of Wisconsin

Inappropriate Technology

Ana Fernandes
CEMFI
Krishna B. Kumar
University of Southern California

Saturday, August 3

Who Gains from Child Labor? A Politico-Economic Investigation

Mattias Doepke
UCLA
Fabrizio Zilibotti
IIES

Slow Boom, Sudden Crash

Laura Veldkamp
INSEAD

Stock Market Boom and the Productivity Gains of the 1990s

Urban Jermann
University of Pennsylvania
Vincenzo Quadrini
New York University