MN Macro 2009

Sophisticated Monetary Policies

V. V. Chari (University of Minnesota), Andrew Atkeson (UCLA), Patrick Kehoe (University of Minnesota)

Business Cycle Dynamics under Rational Inattention

Mirko Wiederholt (Northwestern), Bartosz Mackowiak (European Central Bank)

Public Investment and Budget Rules for State vs. Local Governments

Marco Bassetto (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)

Inferring Labor Income Risk From Economic Choices: An Indirect Inference Approach

Fatih Guvenen (University of Minnesota), Tony Smith (Yale)

The Heterogeneity and Dynamics of Individual Labor Supply over the Life Cycle: Facts and Theory

Andres Erosa (University of Toronto), Luisa Fuster (University of Toronto), Gueorgui Kambourov (University of Toronto)

Wages Over the Business Cycle: Spot Markets?

Iourii Manovskii (University of Pennsylvania), Marcus Hagedorn (University of Zurich)

Growing Like China

Kjetil Storesletten (University of Oslo), Zheng Song (Fudan University), Fabrizio Zilibotti (University of Zurich)

Equilibrium Credit Spreads and the Macroeconomy

Lukas Schmid (Duke), Joao Gomes (University of Pennsylvania)

Financial Frictions on Capital Allocation: A Transmission Mechanism of TFP Fluctuations

Kaiji Chen (University of Oslo), Zheng Song (Fudan University)

The Macroeconomic Effects of Housing Wealth, Housing Finance, and Limited Risk-Sharing in General Equilibrium

Jack Favilukis (LSE), Sydney Ludvigson (NYU), Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh (NYU)

Noisy Business Cycles

Jennifer La'O (MIT), George-Marios Angeletos (MIT)

Crisis and Liquidity in Over-the-Counter Markets

Pierre-Olivier Weill (UCLA), Ricardo Lagos (NYU), Guillaume Rocheteau (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)

Dynamic Thin Markets

Marzena Rostek (University of Wisconsin), Marek Weretka (University of Wisconsin)

Risk Sharing, Inequality, and Fertility

Ali Shourideh (University of Minnesota), Roozbeh Hosseini (Arizona State), Larry E. Jones (University of Minnesota)

Adverse Selection in Competitive Search Equilibrium

Robert Shimer (University of Chicago), Veronica Guerrieri (University of Chicago), Randy Wright (University of Pennsylvania)