Tuesday, July 29

Inflation and Unemployment in the Long Run

Randy Wright (University of Pennsylvania), Aleksander Berentsen (University of Basel), Guido Menzio (University of Pennsylvania)

On the Case for a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Marina Azzimonti (University of Texas-Austin), Marco Battaglini (Princeton), Stephen Coate (Cornell)

The Price of Experience

Yong Kim (USC), Hyeok Jeong (Vanderbilt), Iourii Manovskii (University of Pennsylvania)

Wednesday, July 30

Measuring Aggregate Productivity Growth Using Plant Level Data

Amil Petrin (University of Minnesota), James Levinsohn (University of Michigan)

Learning the Wealth of Nations

Giorgio Primiceri (Northwestern), Francesco Buera (Northwestern), Alexander Monge-Naranjo (Northwestern)

The Three Horsemen of Growth: Plague, War, and Urbanization in Early Modern Europe

Nico Voigtländer (UCLA), Hans-Joachim Voth (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Organizing Growth

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Princeton), Luis Garicano (University of Chicago)

Thursday, July 31

Adverse Selection in the Annuity Market and the Role for Social Security

Roozbeh Hosseini (Arizona State)

Collateral, Financial Intermediation, and the Distribution of Debt Capacity

Adriano Rampini (Duke), S. Viswanathan (Duke)

Fund Managers and Defaultable Debt

Veronica Guerrieri (University of Chicago), Peter Kondor (University of Chicago GSB)

Financial Integration, Financial Deepness, and Global Imbalances

Hugo Hopenhayn (UCLA), Iván Werning (MIT)

Friday, August 1

The Gains from Openness: Trade, Multinational Production, and Diffusion

Andrés Rodríguez-Clare (Pennsylvania State), Natalia Ramondo (University of Texas-Austin)

Understanding International Prices: Customers as Capital

Lukasz Drozd (University of Wisconsin), Jaromir Nosal (Columbia)

Inventories, Lumpy Trade, and Large Devaluations

George Alessandria (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), Joe Kaboski (Ohio State), Virgiliu Midrigan (NYU)

Technology Capital and the U.S. Current Account

Ellen McGrattan (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), Edward C. Prescott (Arizona State and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)