Tuesday, July 26

Customer Capital

Leena Rudanko (Boston University), François Gourio (Boston University)

Intergenerational Redistribution in the Great Recession

Jonathan Heathcote (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), Andy Glover (University of Minnesota), Dirk Krueger (University of Pennsylvania), José-Víctor Ríos-Rull (University of Minnesota)

Decentralization, Communication, and the Origins of Fluctuations

Marios Angeletos (MIT and NBER), Jennifer La'O (University of Chicago Booth)

Wednesday, July 27

Knowledge Growth and the Allocation of Time

Robert Lucas (University of Chicago), Benjamin Moll (Princeton)

Dynamic Adverse Selection: A Theory of Illiquidity, Fire Sales, and Flight to Quality

Veronica Guerrieri (University of Chicago Booth), Robert Shimer (University of Chicago)

Optimal Taxation with Rent-Seeking

Florian Scheuer (Stanford), Casey Rothschild (Middlebury College)

The Social Cost of Near-Rational Investment

Thomas Mertens (NYU Stern), Tarek Hassan (University of Chicago Booth)

Thursday, July 28

A Model of the Consumption Response to Fiscal Stimulus Payments

Greg Kaplan (University of Pennsylvania and IFS), Giovanni Violante (NYU)

Optimal Unemployment Insurance over the Business Cycle

Pascal Michaillat (LSE), Camille Landais (Stanford), Emmanuel Saez (UC Berkeley)

From Hyperinflation to Stable Prices: Argentina's Evidence on Menu Cost Models

Martin Beraja (University of Chicago), Pablo Andres Neumeyer (UTDT), Fernando Alvarez (University of Chicago), Martin Gonzalez Rozada (UTDT)

Optimal Life Cycle Unemployment Insurance

Claudio Michelacci (CEMFI), Hernán Ruffo (CEMFI and UTDT)

Friday, July 29

Trade Adjustment and Productivity in Large Crises

Brent Neiman (University of Chicago Booth), Gita Gopinath (Harvard)

Aggregate Implications of a Credit Crunch

Benjamin Moll (Princeton), Francisco Buera (UCLA)

Financial Markets and Fluctuations in Uncertainty

Yan Bai (Arizona State), Cristina Arellano (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), Patrick Kehoe (University of Minnesota and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)

Credit Crunches and Credit Allocation in a Model of Entrepreneurship

Marco Bassetto (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago), Marco Cagetti (Federal Reserve Board), Mariacristina De Nardi (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)