2010 QED Frontiers of Macroeconomics Workshop

23 April, 2010 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Conference

Location

Hand-Purvis Conference Room 213, Dunning Hall
9:00 - 9:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:30 -10:30 Ricardo Reis(Columbia University) - When Should Policymakers Make Announcements?
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 12:00 Kjetil Storesletten(FRB Minneapolis) - Growing like China (with Zheng Song and Fabrizio Zilibotti)
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 Samuel Kortum (University of Chicago) - Trade and the Global Recession (with Jonathan Eaton, Brent Neiman, and John Romalis)
2:00 - 3:00 Claudia Olivetti(Boston University) - Gender Roles and Medical Progress (with Stefania Albanesi)
3:00 - 3:30 Coffee
3:30 - 4:30 Tony Smith (Yale University) - Inferring Labor Income Risk from Economic Choices: An Indirect Inference Approach (with Fatih Guvenen)