2015

Organizers:   Cristina Arellano  and Ezra Oberfield

Tuesday, August 4

 Political Economy of Sovereign Debt:  Cycles of Debt Crisis and Inequality Overhang

  Alessandro Dovis
Pennsylvania State University
Ali Shourideh
University of Pennsylvania-Wharton School
Mikhail Golosov
Princeton University

Growth through Learning

Boyan Jovanovic
New York University      

 A Tractable Model of Monetary Exchange with Ex-Post Heterogeneity

 Pierre-Olivier Weill
UCLA
Guillaume Rocheteau
UC-Irvine
Tsz-Nga Wong
Bank of Canada

Wednesday, August 5

  Nonparametric Counterfactual Predictions in Neoclassical Models of International Trade  

 Dave Donaldson
Stanford University
Rodrigo Adao
MIT
Arnaud Costinot
MIT

 Liquidity Traps and Capital Flows

 Sushant Acharya
Federal Reserve  Bank of New York
Julien Bengui
Université de Montréal

 Globalization and Synchronization of Innovation Cycles   

  Kiminori Matsuyama
Northwestern University
Iryna Sushko
Institute of Mathematics,National Academy of Science, Ukraine
Laura Gardini
University of Urbino

 No-Bubble Condition:  Model-Free Tests in Housing Markets

  Matteo Maggiori
Harvard University
Stefano Giglio
University of Chicago Booth School
Johannes Stroebel
New York University Stern School

Thursday, August 6

 The Aggregate Implications of Regional Business Cycles     

   Martin Beraja
University of  Chicago
Erik Hurst
University of Chicago Booth School
Juan Ospina
University of Chicago  

Dispersion in Relative Prices:  Evidence and Theory        

Leena Rudanko
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Greg Kaplan
Princeton University
Guido Menzio
University of Pennsylvania
Nicholas Trachter
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Capital Allocation and Productivity in Southern Europe

Loukas Karabarbounis
University of Chicago
Gita Gopinath
Harvard University
Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan
University of Maryland
Carolina Villegas-Sanchez
ESADE – Universitat Ramon Llull

 Firm Entry and Exit and Aggregate Growth

Timothy Kehoe
University of  Minnesota
Jose Asturias
Georgetown University-Qatar
Sewon Hur
University of Pittsburgh
Kim J. Ruhl
New York University Stern School

Friday, August 7

 Decomposing Duration Dependence in a Stopping Time Model

Katarína Borovičková
New York University
Fernando Alvarez
University of Chicago
Robert Shimer
University of Chicago

Demand Stimulus, Inflation and Marginal Costs:  Empirical Evidence

Iourii Manovskii
University of Pennsylvania
Marcus Hagedorn
University of Oslo
Jesse Handbury
University of Pennsylvania

Leverage and Disagreement

Franҫois Geerolf
UCLA

 Fiscal Policy and Debt Management with Incomplete Markets

Anmol Bhandari
University of Minnesota
David Evans
New York University
Mikhail Golosov
Princeton University
Thomas Sargent
New York University