MN Macro 2006

Household Heterogeneity and Real Exchange Rates

Narayana Kocherlakota (University of Minnesota and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford)

Adjusting to Capital Account Liberalization

Kosuke Aoki, Gianluca Benigno, Nobu Kiyotaki (all LSE)

Cross Section of Risk Premia

Hanno Lustig (UCLA), Adrien Verdelhan (Boston University)

The Economics of Social Networks

Matthew Jackson (CalTech)

Learning from Private and Public Observations of Others' Actions

Manuel Amador (Stanford), Pierre-Olivier Weill (NYU Stern)

The Rise of the Service Economy

Francisco Buera (Northwestern), Joe Kaboski (Ohio State)

The Distribution of Wealth and Redistributive Policies

Jess Benhabib, Alberto Bisin (NYU)

Sources of Lifetime Inequality

Mark Huggett (Georgetown), Gustavo Ventura (Pennsylvania State), Amir Yaron (University of Pennsylvania-Wharton)

Understanding Wage Inequality: Ben-Porath Meets Skill-Biased Technical Change

Fatih Guvenen, Burhanettin Kuruscu (University of Texas-Austin)

On the Return to Venture Capital

Boyan Jovanovic (NYU), Balazs Szentes (University of Chicago)

Selection, Growth and the Size Distribution of Firms

Erzo Luttmer (University of Minnesota)

Why Has CEO Pay Increased So Much?

Xavier Gabaix (MIT), Augustin Landier (NYU Stern)

Do Taxes Explain European Employment? Indivisible Labor, Human Capital, Lotteries, and Savings

Lars Ljungqvist (Stockholm School of Economics), Thomas Sargent (NYU)

Mismatch

Robert Shimer (University of Chicago)

Work-Consumption Preferences and Employment Volatility

Robert Hall (Stanford)