Tuesday, July 29

Uncertainty Traps

Edouard Schaal (NYU), Pablo Fajgelbaum (UCLA/NBER), Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel (UPenn-Wharton)

Optimal Financial Regulation and the Concentration of Aggregate Risk

Sebastian Di Tella (Stanford GSB)

Banks, Liquidity Management and Monetary Policy

Saki Bigio (Columbia), Javier Bianchi (Wisconsin/NBER)

Wednesday, July 30

Pareto Efficiency and Identity

Christopher Phelan (University of Minnesota), Aldo Rustichini (University of Minnesota)

Government Interventions in a Dynamic Market with Adverse Selection

William Fuchs (UC Berkeley-Haas), Andrzej Skrzypacz (Stanford GSB)

Risk-Taking, Rent-Seeking, and Investment when Financial Markets are Noisy

Christian Hellwig (Toulouse), Elias Albagli (USC-Marshall), Aleh Tsyvinski (Yale)

Information Frictions, Misallocation, and Aggregate Productivity

Venky Venkateswaran (NYU-Stern), Joel David (USC), Hugo Hopenhayn (UCLA)

Thursday, July 31

Lack of Selection and Imperfect Managerial Contracts: Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries

Ufuk Akcigit (UPenn/NBER), Harun Alp (UPenn), Michael Peters (LSE/Yale)

Micro Data and Macro Technology

Ezra Oberfield (Princeton), Devesh Raval (FTC)

The Race Between Technology and Human Capital?

Nancy Stokey (University of Chicago)

Optimal Income Taxation: Mirrlees Meets Ramsey

Jonathan Heathcote (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), Hitoshi Tsujiyama (Goethe)

Friday, August 1

The Cyclicality of the Opportunity Cost of Employment

Loukas Karabarbounis (University of Chicago/NBER), Gabriel Chodorow-Reich (Harvard)

Quantifying Confidence

Marios Angeletos (MIT)

Inflation Dynamics during the Financial Crisis

Simon Gilchrist (Boston University/NBER), Raphael Schoenle (Brandeis), Jae Sim (Federal Reserve), Egon Zakrajsek (Federal Reserve)

Debt Constraints and Unemployment

Patrick Kehoe (University of Minnesota), Virgiliu Midrigan (NYU), Elena Pastorino (University of Minnesota)