MN Macro 2000
August 1 – 5, 2000
Organized by Narayana Kocherlakota and Jaume Ventura
Tuesday, August 1
Robustness and Pricing when Growth is Hidden
Tax Policy with Quasi-Geometric Discounting
The Social Discount Rate
Wednesday, August 2
Trade in Capital Goods
A Game-Theoretic View of the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level
Matching and Money
Thursday, August 3
Deunionization, Technical Change and Inequality
The Survival of the Welfare State
Advertising, Mass Consumption, and Capitalism: Some Unpleasant Modernist Arithmetics
Friday, August 4
Limited Enforceability, Heterogeneity and the Macroeconomy
Industrial Revolutions and Demographic Transitions
A (S,s) Model of Commodity Price Speculation
Saturday, August 5
Technology and the Stock Market: 1885-1998
An Uncertainty Driven Theory of the Productivity Slowdown: Manufacturing
The World Technology Frontier