2014

Organizers:      Manuel Amador, Ariel Burstein

 Tuesday, July 29

Uncertainty Traps

Edouard Schaal
New York University
Pablo Fajgelbaum
UCLA and NBER
Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel
University of Pennsylvania-Wharton School

Optimal Financial Regulation and the Concentration of Aggregate Risk

Sebastian Di Tella
Stanford University - GSB

Banks, Liquidity Management and Monetary Policy

Saki Bigio
Columbia University
Javier Bianchi
University of Wisconsin and NBER 

Wednesday, July 30

Pareto Efficiency and Identity

Christopher Phelan
University of Minnesota
Aldo Rustichini
University of Minnesota

Government Interventions in a Dynamic Market with Adverse Selection

William Fuchs
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
Andrzej Skrzypacz
Stanford University - GSB

Risk-Taking, Rent-Seeking, and Investment when Financial Markets are Noisy   

Christian Hellwig
Toulouse School of Economics
Elias Albagli
University of Southern California - Marshall School
Aleh Tsyvinski
Yale University

Information Frictions, Misallocation, and Aggregate Productivity

Venky Venkateswaran
New York University - Stern School
Joel David
University of Southern California
Hugo Hopenhayn
UCLA 

Thursday, July 31

Lack of Selection and Imperfect Managerial Contracts: Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries

Ufuk Akcigit
University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Harun Alp
University of Pennsylvania
Michael Peters
London School of Economics and Yale University

Micro Data and Macro Technology

Ezra Oberfield
Princeton University
Devesh Raval
Federal Trade Commission

The Race Between Technology and Human Capital?

Nancy Stokey
University of Chicago

Optimal Income Taxation: Mirrlees Meets Ramsey

Jonathan Heathcote
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Hitoshi Tsujiyama
Goethe University Frankfurt

 Friday, August 1

The Cyclicality of the Opportunity Cost of Employment

Loukas Karabarbounis
University of Chicago and NBER
Gabriel Chodorow-Reich
Harvard University

Quantifying Confidence

Marios Angeletos
MIT

Inflation Dynamics during the Financial Crisis

Simon Gilchrist
Boston University and NBER
Raphael Schoenle
Brandeis University
Jae Sim
Federal Reserve Board
Egon Zakrajsek
Federal Reserve Board

Debt Constraints and Unemployment

Patrick Kehoe
University of Minnesota
Virgiliu Midrigan
New York University
Elena Pastorino
University of Minnesota