Northwestern Alumni-Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Workshop on Macroeconomics

• Asset Return Dynamics under Bad Environment, Good Environment Fundamentals

Geert Bekaert,  Columbia Business School (Presenter)

Eric Engstrom,  Federal Reserve Board

Discussant

Charles Himmelberg,  Goldman Sachs

• Exchange Rate Determination, Risk Sharing and the Asset Market View

Craig Burnside,  Duke University (Presenter)

Jeremy Graveline,  University of Minnesota

Discussant

Martin Bodenstein,  National University of Singapore

• Uncertainty Shocks, Asset Supply and Pricing over the Business Cycle

Cosmin Ilut,  Duke University (Presenter)

Francesco Bianchi,  Duke University

Martin Schneider,  Stanford University

Discussant

Nicolas Vincent,  HEC Montreal

• Macroeconomic Implications of Agglomeration

Jonas Fisher,  Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Toni Whited,  University of Rochester

Morris Davis,  University of Wisconsin, Madison

Discussant

Roc Armenter,  Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

• Shopping Externalities and Self-Fulfilling Unemployment Fluctuations

Guido Menzio,  University of Pennsylvania (Presenter)

Greg Kaplan,  Princeton University

Discussant

Rasmus Lentz,  University of Wisconsin-Madison

• The Micro and Macro of Job Polarization

Nir Jaimovich,  Duke University (Co-presenter)

Henry Siu,  University of British Columbia (Co-presenter)

Guido Matias Cortes,  University of Manchester

Christopher J. Nekarda,  Federal Reserve Board

Discussant

Stefania Albanesi,  Federal Reserve Bank of New York

• Learning about Future Oil Prices

Sylvain Leduc,  Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Kevin Moran,  Universite Laval

Rob Vigfusson,  Federal Reserve Board (Presenter)

Discussant

Ben Johannsen,  Northwestern University

• The Empirical Implications of the Interest Rate Lower Bound

Chris Gust,  Federal Reserve Board (Presenter)

David Lopez-Salido,  Federal Reserve Board

Matt Smith,  Federal Reserve Board

Discussant

Pablo Guerron,  Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

• Aggregate Implications of Innovation Policy

Ariel Burstein,  University of California at Los Angeles

Discussant

Michelle Alexopoulos,  University of Toronto

• Growth and Fiscal Policy: A Positive Theory

Levon Barseghyan,  Cornell University (Presenter)

Marco Battaglini,  Princeton University

Discussant

Ralf Meisenzahl,  Federal Reserve Board