2009 QED Frontiers of Macroeconomics Workshop

24 April, 2009 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Conference

Location

Dunning Hall Conference Room 213
PROGRAM  

9:00 - 9:30 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:30 - 10:30

Raquel Fernandez (NYU)

 

Women's Rights and Development: Fertility, Selfish Husbands, and Altruistic Fathers

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee

11:00 - 12:00

Gianluca Violante (NYU)

 

How much Insurance in Bewley Models? (with Greg Kaplan)

12:00 - 1:00

Lunch

1:00 - 2:00

Annette Vissing-Jørgensen(Kellogg School, Northwestern University)

 

The Aggregate Demand for Treasury Debt (with Arvind Krishnamurthy)

2:00 - 3:00

Ariel Burstein (UCLA)

 

Trade, Technology, and the Skilled Wage Premium

3:00 - 3:30

Coffee

3:30 - 4:30

Randall Wright (University of Pennsylvania)

 

Information, Liquidity, Asset Prices, and Monetary Policy (with Benjamin Lester and Andrew Postlewaite)