Tuesday, August 1

Robustness and Pricing when Growth is Hidden

Marco Cagetti (Chicago), Lars Hansen (Chicago), Thomas Sargent (Stanford), Noah Williams (Chicago)

Tax Policy with Quasi-Geometric Discounting

Per Krusell (Rochester), Burhanettin Kuruscu (Rochester), Tony Smith (Carnegie Mellon)

The Social Discount Rate

Andrew Caplin (NYU), John Leahy (Boston University)

Wednesday, August 2

Trade in Capital Goods

Jonathan Eaton (Boston University), Samuel Kortum (Boston University)

A Game-Theoretic View of the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level

Marco Bassetto (Northwestern)

Matching and Money

Dean Corbae (Pittsburgh), Ted Temzelides (Iowa), Randall Wright (Penn)

Thursday, August 3

Deunionization, Technical Change and Inequality

Daron Acemoglu (MIT), Philippe Aghion (Harvard), Giovanni Violante (UCL)

The Survival of the Welfare State

John Hassler (IIES), José V. Rodriguez Mora (IIES), Kjetil Storesletten (IIES), Fabrizio Zilibotti (IIES)

Advertising, Mass Consumption, and Capitalism: Some Unpleasant Modernist Arithmetics

Jess Benhabib (NYU), Alberto Bisin (NYU)

Friday, August 4

Limited Enforceability, Heterogeneity and the Macroeconomy

Thomas Cooley (NYU), Ramon Marimon (EUI), Vincenzo Quadrini (Duke)

Industrial Revolutions and Demographic Transitions

Michelle Connolly (Duke), Pietro Peretto (Duke)

A (S,s) Model of Commodity Price Speculation

George Hall (Yale), John Rust (Yale)

Saturday, August 5

Technology and the Stock Market: 1885-1998

Boyan Jovanovic (NYU), Peter Rousseau (Vanderbilt)

An Uncertainty Driven Theory of the Productivity Slowdown: Manufacturing

Diego Comin (Harvard)

The World Technology Frontier

Francesco Caselli (Chicago), John Coleman (Duke)