Tuesday, July 31

Search, Rest, and Unemployment

Robert Shimer (University of Chicago), Fernando Alvarez (University of Chicago)

Unemployment Insurance with Hidden Saving

Matthew Mitchell, Yuzhe Zhang (University of Iowa)

Consumption and Labor Supply with Partial Insurance: An Analytical Framework

Giovanni Violante (NYU), Jonathan Heathcote (Georgetown), Kjetil Storesletten (University of Oslo)

Wednesday, August 1

The Incentives to Start New Companies: Evidence from Venture Capital

Robert Hall (Stanford), Susan Woodward (Sand Hill Econometrics)

Financial Development and Firm Dynamics: A Theoretical Analysis

Thomas Philippon, Yuliy Sannikov (NYU Stern)

Wall Street and Silicon Valley: A Delicate Interaction

Alessandro Pavan (Northwestern), Marios Angeletos, Guido Lorenzoni (MIT)

Contract Enforcement and Firms' Financing

Cristina Arellano (University of Minnesota), Yan Bai (Arizona State), Jing Zhang (University of Michigan)

Thursday, August 2

Adjustment Costs and Consumption Behavior

Nancy Stokey (University of Chicago)

Why Has House Price Dispersion Gone Up

Pierre-Olivier Weill (UCLA), Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh (NYU Stern)

Occupational Sorting and Development

Jan Eeckhout (University of Pennsylvania), Boyan Jovanovic (NYU)

Financial Integration, Financial Deepness, and Global Imbalances

Vincenzo Quadrini (USC), Enrique Mendoza (IMF), José-Víctor Ríos-Rull (University of Minnesota)

Friday, August 3

Macro Implications of Household Finance

Hanno Lustig (UCLA), YiLi Chien (Purdue), Hal Cole (University of Pennsylvania)

A Simple, Unified, Exactly Solved Framework for Ten Puzzles in Macro-Finance

Xavier Gabaix (NYU Stern)

A Search Theory of Rigid Prices

Guido Menzio (University of Pennsylvania)

Sales and the Real Effects of Monetary Policy

Patrick Kehoe (University of Minnesota), Virgiliu Midrigan (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)