Tuesday, July 30

Understanding European Real Exchange Rates

Mario J. Crucini (Vanderbilt), Chris Telmer (Carnegie Mellon), Marios Zachariades (Louisiana State)

A Unified Framework for Monetary Theory and Policy Analysis

Ricardo Lagos (NYU), Randall Wright (University of Pennsylvania)

Can a Baumol-Tobin Model Account for the Short-Run Behavior of Velocity?

Fernando Alvarez (University of Chicago/NBER), Andrew Atkeson (UCLA), Chris Edmond (UCLA)

Wednesday, July 31

The Opportunity Cost of Funds and the Demand for Risky Assets

Steven Davis (University of Chicago), Felix Kubler (Stanford), Paul Willen (University of Chicago)

Growth and Welfare Effects of Business Cycles in Economies with Idiosyncratic Human Capital Risk

Thomas Krebs (Brown)

Heckscher-Ohlin Business Cycles

Alejandro Cuñat (LSE/CEP/CEPR), Marco Maffezzoli (Università Bocconi)

Thursday, August 1

Skill and Luck in the Theory of Turnover

Giuseppe Moscarini (Yale)

Directed Search on the Job and Wage Dispersion

Alain Delacroix (Purdue), Shouyong Shi (Indiana)

The Cost of Employment Protection in the Presence of Match-Specific Learning

Eva Nagypal (IIES)

Friday, August 2

R&D? A Small Contribution to Productivity Growth

Diego Comin (NYU)

Pursuing Problems in Growth

Louise C. Keeley (University of Wisconsin)

Inappropriate Technology

Ana Fernandes (CEMFI), Krishna B. Kumar (USC)

Saturday, August 3

Who Gains from Child Labor? A Politico-Economic Investigation

Matthias Doepke (UCLA), Fabrizio Zilibotti (IIES)

Slow Boom, Sudden Crash

Laura Veldkamp (INSEAD)

Stock Market Boom and the Productivity Gains of the 1990s

Urban Jermann (University of Pennsylvania), Vincenzo Quadrini (NYU)