2011

Organizers: Emmanuel Farhi, Kjetil Storesletten

Tuesday, July 26

Customer Capital

Leena Rudanko
Boston University
François Gourio
Boston University

Intergenerational Redistribution in the Great Recession

Jonathan Heathcote
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Andy Glover
University of Minnesota
Dirk Krueger
University of Pennsylvania
José Víctor Ríos Rull
University of Minnesota

Decentralization, Communication, and the Origins of Fluctuations

Marios Angeletos
MIT and NBER
Jennifer La'O
University of Chicago - Booth

Wednesday, July 27

Knowledge Growth and the Allocation of Time

Robert Lucas
University of Chicago
Benjamin Moll
Princeton University

Dynamic Adverse Selection: A Theory of Illiquidity, Fire Sales, and Flight to Quality

Veronica Guerrieri
University of Chicago - Booth
Robert Shimer
University of Chicago

Optimal Taxation with Rent-Seeking

Florian Scheuer
Stanford University
Casey Rothschild
Middlebury College

The Social Cost of Near-Rational Investment

Thomas Mertens
New York University - Stern
Tarek Hassan
University of Chicago - Booth

Thursday, July 28

A Model of the Consumption Response to Fiscal Stimulus Payments

Greg Kaplan
University of Pennsylvania and IFS
Giovanni Violante
New York University

Optimal Unemployment Insurance over the Business Cycle

Pascal Michaillat
London School of Economics
Camille Landais
Stanford University
Emmanuel Saez
UC-Berkeley

From Hyperinflation to Stable Prices: Argentina's Evidence on Menu Cost Models

Martin Beraja
University of Chicago
Pablo Andres Neumeyer
UTDT
Fernando Alvarez
University of Chicago
Martin Gonzalez Rozada
UTDT

Optimal Life Cycle Unemployment Insurance

Claudio Michelacci
CEMFI
Hernán Ruffo
CEMFI and UTDT

Friday, July 29

Trade Adjustment and Productivity in Large Crises

Brent Neiman
University of Chicago - Booth
Gita Gopinath
Harvard University

Aggregate Implications of a Credit Crunch

Benjamin Moll
Princeton University
Francisco Buera
UCLA

Financial Markets and Fluctuations in Uncertainty

Yan Bai
Arizona State University
Cristina Arellano
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Patrick Kehoe
University of Minnesota and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Credit Crunches and Credit Allocation in a Model of Entrepreneurship

Marco Bassetto
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Marco Cagetti
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
Cristina De Nardi
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago