Tuesday, July 26

Sovereign Debt and Structural Reforms

Kjetil Storesletten (Oslo), Andreas Müller (Oslo), Fabrizio Zilibotti (Zurich)

The Politics of Sovereign Default under Financial Integration

Marina Azzimonti (Stony Brook), Vincenzo Quadrini (USC)

A Model of the International Monetary System

Matteo Maggiori (Harvard), Emmanuel Farhi (Harvard)

Wednesday, July 27

Quantifying Mechanisms Behind Urban-Rural Wage Gaps

Michael Waugh (NYU Stern), David Lagakos (UC San Diego), A. Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale SOM)

Balanced Growth Despite Uzawa

Ezra Oberfield (Princeton), Gene Grossman (Princeton), Elhanan Helpman (Harvard and CIFAR), Thomas Sampson (LSE)

Horizontal and Vertical Polarization: Task-Specific Technological Change in a Multi-Sector Economy

Yongseok Shin (Washington University in St. Louis), Sang Yoon (Tim) Lee (Mannheim)

Coordinating Business Cycles

Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel (Wharton), Edouard Schaal (NYU)

Thursday, July 28

Reputation Cycles

Boyan Jovanovic (NYU), Julien Prat (CREST-Paris)

The Tail that Wags the Economy: Belief-Driven Business Cycles and Persistent Stagnation

Venky Venkateswaran (NYU Stern), Laura Veldkamp (NYU Stern), Julian Kozlowski (NYU)

Endogenous Market Making and Network Formation

Briana Chang (Wisconsin-Madison), Shengxing Zhang (LSE)

Frictional Goods Markets: Theory and Applications

Randy Wright (Wisconsin-Madison), Zachary Bethune (Virginia), Michael Choi (Iowa)

Friday, July 29

Consumption and House Prices in the Great Recession

Kurt Mitman (IIES, Stockholm), Greg Kaplan (Princeton), Giovanni Violante (NYU)

Asset Pricing with Endogenously Uninsurable Risks

Anmol Bhandari (University of Minnesota), Hengjie Ai (Minnesota Carlson)

Monetary Shocks and Banks' Balance Sheets

Pablo Kurlat (Stanford), Sebastian Di Tella (Stanford)

On the Optimality of Financial Repression

Alessandro Dovis (Penn State), V. V. Chari (University of Minnesota), Patrick Kehoe (University of Minnesota)