2016 QED Frontiers of Macroeconomics Workshop

PROGRAM

9:00 - 9:30 a.m.           Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:30 - 10:30 a.m.        Valerie Ramey (University of California, San Diego)
                                   "News Shocks in Open Economies: Evidence from Giant Oil Discoveries" (with Rabah Arezki and Liugang Sheng)   

10:30 - 11:00 a.m.       Break


11:00 - 12:00 p.m.       Guido Menzio (University of Pennsylvania)
                                     "The (Q, S, s) Pricing Rule" (with Kenneth Burdett)

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.        Lunch

1:00 - 2:00 p.m.          Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé (Columbia University)

                                    "Multiple Equilibria in Open Economy Models with Collateral Constraints: Overborrowing Revisited" (with Martin Uribe)

2:00 - 2:15 p.m.          Break

2:15 - 3:15 p.m.          Costas Arkolakis (Yale University)
                                    "Optimal City Structure" (with Treb Allen and Xiangliang Li)

3:15 - 3:30 p.m.          Break

3:30 - 4:30 p.m.          Tony Smith (Yale University)

                                    "The Historical Evolution of the Wealth Distribution: A Quantitative-Theoretic Investigation" (with Joachim Hubmer and Per Krusell)

6:30 p.m.                     Reception

7:30 p.m.                     Dinner