NBER Economic Fluctuations & Growth Research Meeting

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EF&G Research Meeting

October 21, 2011

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
230 South LaSalle Street
Chicago, Illinois

George-Marios Angeletos and Martin Schneider, Organizers

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20:

6:30 pm

Reception and Dinner - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21:

9:00 am

Aysegul Sahin, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Joseph Song, Columbia University
Giorgio Topa, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Gianluca Violante, New York University
Measuring Mismatch in the U.S. Labor Market

Discussant: Robert Shimer, University of Chicago and NBER

10:00 am - Coffee Break

10:30 am

Cristina Arellano, University of Minnesota and NBER
Yan Bai, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Patrick Kehoe, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Princeton University, University of Minnesota and NBER
Financial Markets and Fluctuations in Uncertainty

Discussant: Andrea Eisfeldt, UCLA

11:30 am

Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago and NBER
Rodney Ramcharan, Federal Reserve Board
The Anatomy of a Credit Crisis: The Boom and Bust in Farm Land Prices in the United States in the 1920s

Discussant: Sydney Ludvigson, New York University and NBER

12:30 pm - Lunch

1:30 pm

Per Krusell, Stockholm University and NBER
Toshihiko Mukoyama, University of Virginia
Richard Rogerson, Princeton University and NBER
Aysegul Sahin, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Is Labor Supply Important for Business Cycles?

Discussant: Marcelo Veracierto, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

2:30 pm - Coffee Break

3:00 pm

Eric Sims, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Permanent and Transitory Technology Shocks and the Behavior of Hours: A Challenge for DSGE Models

Discussant: Jonas Fisher, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

4:00 pm

Allen Head, Queen's University
Lucy Qian Liu, IMF
Guido Menzio, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Randall Wright, University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER
Sticky Prices: A New Monetarist Approach

Discussant: John Leahy, New York University and NBER