2008

Tuesday, July 29

Inflation and Unemployment in the Long Run

Randy Wright
University of Pennsylvania
Aleksander Berentsen
Center for Economic Sciences (WWZ)
Guido Menzio
University of Pennsylvania

On the Case for a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Marina Azzimonti
University of Texas-Austin
Marco Battaglini
Princeton University
Stephen Coate
Cornell University

The Price of Experience

Yong Kim
University of Southern California
Hyeok Jeong
Vanderbilt University
Iourii Manovskii
University of Pennsylvania

Measuring Aggregate Productivity Growth Using Plant Level Data

Amil Petrin
University of Minnesota
James Levinsohn
University of Michigan

Learning the Wealth of Nations

Giorgio Primiceri
Northwestern University
Francesco Buera
Northwestern University
Alexander Monge-Naranjo
Northwestern University

The Three Horsemen of Growth: Plague, War, and Urbanization in Early Modern Europe

Nico Voigtlaender
UCLA
Hans-Joachim Voth
Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Organizing Growth

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
Princeton University
Luis Garicano
University of Chicago

Adverse Selection in the Annuity Market and the Role for Social Security

Roozbeh Hosseini
Arizona State University

Collateral, Financial Intermediation, and the Distribution of Debt Capacity

Adriano Rampini
Duke University
S. Viswanathan
Duke University

Fund Managers and Defaultable Debt

Veronica Guerrieri
University of Chicago
Peter Kondor
University of Chicago GSB

Financial Integration, Financial Deepness, and Global Imbalances

Hugo Hopenhayn
UCLA
Ivan Werning
MIT

The Gains from Openness: Trade, Multinational Production, and Diffusion

Andrés Rodríguez-Clare
Pennsylvania State University
Natalia Ramondo
University of Texas-Austin

Understanding International Prices: Customers as Capital

Lukasz Drozd
University of Wisconsin
Jaromir Nosal
Columbia University

Inventories, Lumpy Trade, and Large Devaluations

George Alessandria
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Joe Kaboski
Ohio State University
Virgiliu Midrigan
New York University

Technology Capital and the U.S. Current Account

Ellen McGrattan
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Edward C. Prescott
Arizona State University and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis