The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the National Bureau of Economic Research held a joint conference, the Chicago Fed/NBER Workshop on Macroeconomic Perspectives, on Friday, March 2 and Saturday, March 3, 2007, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Chicago Fed/NBER Workshop on Macroeconomic Perspectives
03/02/07
1:30 PM
A New-Keynesian Model with Unemployment
Speakers
Oliver Blanchard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jordi Gali, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Discussant
Mark Gertler, New York University
2:45 PM
Break
3:00 PM
Equilibrium Sticky Prices
Speaker
Robert Hall, Stanford University
Discussant
Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4:30 PM
Inflation and Unemployment: Lagos–Wright Meets Mortensen–Pissarides
Speakers
Aleksander Berensten, University of Basel
Guido Menzio, University of Pennsylvania
Randall Wright, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant
Robert Lucas, University of Chicago
6:00 PM
Dinner
Third Floor Dining Room
03/03/07
9:30 AM
The Aggregate Implications of Indivisible Labor, Incomplete Markets and Search Frictions
Speakers
Per Krusell, Princeton University
Toshihiko Mukoyama, University of Virginia
Richard Rogerson, Arizona State University
Aysegul Sahin, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Discussant
Gadi Barlevy, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
10:45 AM
Break
11:00 AM
Comaparative Advantage in Cyclical Unemployment
Speakers
Mark Bils, University of Rochester
Yongsung Chang, Seoul National University and Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Sun-Bin Kim, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Discussant
Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania
12:15 PM
Lunch (Third Floor Dining Room)
1:30 PM
The Establishment-Level Behavior of Vacancies and Hiring
Speakers
Steven Davis, University of Chicago
Jason Faberman, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and University of Maryland
John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland
Discussant
Guiorgui Kambourov, University of Toronto
2:45 PM
Break
3:00 PM
Unobserved Heterogeneity in Directed Search
Speaker
Michael Peters, University of British Columbia
Discussant
Philipp Kircher, University of Pennsylvania
4:15 AM
Break
4:30 PM
Equilibrium Unemployment in a Generalized Search Model
Speaker
Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Discussant
Marcelo Veracierto, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
