2010

Tuesday, July 27

The Great Diversification and Its Undoing

Xavier Gabaix
New York University Stern School of Business
Vasco Carvalho
CREI/Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Efficient Search on the Job and the Business Cycle

Guido Menzio
University of Pennsylvania
Shouyong Shi
University of Toronto

An Equilibrium Model of the African HIV/AIDS Epidemic

Michèle Tertilt
Stanford University
Jeremy Greenwood
University of Pennsylvania
Philip Kircher
University of Pennsylvania

Optimal Dynamic Taxes

Maxim Troshkin
University of Minnesota
Mike Golosov
Yale University
Aleh Tsyvinski
Yale University

Insurance and Taxation over the Life Cycle

Iván Werning
MIT
Emmanuel Farhi
Harvard University

Career Length: Effects of Curvature of Earnings Profiles, Earnings Shocks, and Social Security

Lars Ljungqvist
Stockholm School of Economics
Thomas Sargent
New York University and Hoover Institution

Taxation and Household Labor Supply

Gustavo Ventura
University of Iowa
Nezih Guner
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Remzi Kaygusuz
Sabanci University

Precautionary Saving in the Business Cycle

Xavier Ragot
Paris School of Economics and Banque de France
Edouard Challe
École Polytechnique

A Macroeconomic Model with a Financial Sector

Yuliy Sannikov
Princeton University
Markus Brunnermeier
Princeton University

Optimal Regulation in the Presence of Reputation Concerns

Guillermo Ordonez
Yale University
Andy Atkeson
UCLA

Dynamic Incentive Contracts with Parameter Uncertainty

Boyan Jovanovic
New York University
Julien Prat
Institute for Economic Analysis

Optimal Price Setting with Observation and Menu Costs Luigi Paciello, EIEF

Fernando Alvarez
University of Chicago
Francesco Lippi
University of Sassari

Sticky Prices? Equilibrium Price Dispersion and Rigidity

Randy Wright
University of Wisconsin
Allen Head
Queen's University
Lucy Liu
IMF
Guido Menzio
University of Pennsylvania

Rethinking the Effects of Financial Liberalization

Fernando Broner
CREI and Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Jaume Ventura
CREI

Globalization, Technology, and the Skill Premium

Jonathan Vogel
Columbia University
Ariel Burstein
UCLA