Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics

MISSING FINANCIAL MARKETS

April 27, 2001

Organizers: Robert Shiller and John Geanakoplos

8:15 am – 8:50 am Light Breakfast, General Motors Room, SOM, 55 Hillhouse
8:50 am Very brief introduction (Robert Shiller and John Geanakoplos)
9:00 am – 10:00 am Gabrielle Demange (DELTA), "On Optimality in Intergenerational Risk Sharing"
     Discussant: Stefano Athanasoulis (University of Notre Dame)
10:30 am – 11:30 am Harry Mamaysky and Matthew Spiegel (Yale University), "A Theory of Mutual Funds: Optimal Fund Objectives and Industry Organization"
     Discussant: Rohit Rahi (London School of Economics)
11:30 am – 12:30 pm George-Marios Angeletos (MIT) and Laurent E. Calvet (Harvard), "Incomplete Markets, Growth, and the Business Cycle"
     Discussant: Guy Laroque (INSEE-CREST)
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Buffet Lunch, General Motors Room, SOM, 55 Hillhouse
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Steven J. Davis and Paul Willen (University of Chicago), "Using Financial Assets to Hedge Labor Income Risks: Estimating the Benefits"
     Discussant: Marianne Baxter (Boston University)
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Patrick Kehoe (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) and Fabrizio Perri (New York University), "International Business Cycles with Endogenous Incomplete Markets"
     Discussant: Michael Magill (University of Southern California)
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Franklin Allen (University of Pennsylvania) and Douglas Gale (New York University), "Banking and Markets"
     Discussant: Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (London School of Economics)
7:00 pm Cocktails and Dinner, Omni New Haven Hotel