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Cowles Foundation for
Research in Economics
MACRO/LABOR ECONOMICS CONFERENCE
May 5–7, 2006
Organizers: Michael Keane and Giuseppe Moscarini
List of Participants |
| FRIDAY |
12:00 pm |
Lunch (under tent in backyard, 37 Hillhouse
Avenue) |
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1:20 pm |
Opening Remarks |
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1:30 pm
2:15 pm
2:40 pm |
Edward Prescott, Arizona State University,
"Aggregate Labor Supply: A Statement about Preferences,
Technology, and their Interaction" (with Richard Rogerson and Johanna Wallenius)
Discussant: Randy Wright, University of Pennsylvania
General Discussion |
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3:00 pm |
Coffee Break |
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3:30 pm
4:15 pm
4:40 pm |
Zvi Eckstein, Eitan Berglas School of
Economics, "Job and Wage Mobility in a Search Model with
Non-Compliance (Exemptions) with the Minimum Wage" (with Suqin Ge)
Discussant: Fabien Postel-Vinay, University of Bristol
General Discussion |
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5:00 pm
5:45 pm
6:10 pm |
Per Krusell, Princeton University, "Frictional Wage Inequality: A Puzzle?" (with Andreas Hornstein
and Gianluca Violante)
Discussant: Björn Brügemann, Yale University
General Discussion |
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7:00 pm |
Dinner at Zinc, 964 Chapel Street |
| SATURDAY |
7:45 am |
Continental Breakfast |
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8:30 am
9:15 am
9:40 am |
Jean-Marc Robin, U de Paris 1 Sorbonne and
University College London, "A Feasible Equilibrium Search Model
of Wage Dynamics with Experience Accumulation" (with Jesper Bagger, Francoise
Fontaine, and Fabien Postel-Vinay)
Discussant: Eva Nagypal, Northwestern University
General Discussion |
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10:00 am |
Coffee Break |
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10:30 am
11:15 am
11:40 am |
Dale Mortensen, Northwestern University,
"Optimal Growth through Product Innovation" (with
Rasmus Lentz)
Discussant: Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University
General Discussion |
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12:00 pm |
Lunch (under tent in backyard, 37 Hillhouse
Avenue) |
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1:30 pm |
Lars Ljungqvist, Stockholm School of
Economics, and Thomas Sargent, New York University, "Indivisible
Labor, Human Capital, Lotteries, and Personal Savings: Do Taxes Explain European
Employment?" |
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2:15 pm |
Richard Rogerson, Arizona State University,
"Unemployment Insurance and the Theory of Labor Supply" |
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3:00 pm |
Coffee Break |
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3:30 pm
4:15 pm
4:40 pm |
Costas Meghir, University College London,
"Wage Risk and Employment Risk over the Life Cycle"
(with Hamish Low and Luigi Pistaferri)
Discussant: Audra Bowlus, University of Western Ontario
General Discussion |
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5:00 pm
5:45 pm
6:10 pm |
Robert Shimer, University of Chicago,
"Mismatch"
Discussant: Kenneth Burdett, University of Pennsylvania
General Discussion |
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7:00 pm |
Dinner at Scoozzi, 1104 Chapel Street |
| SUNDAY |
8:30 am |
Continental Breakfast |
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9:00 am
9:45 am
10:10 am |
James Heckman, University of Chicago, and
Flavio Cunha, University of Chicago, "Formulating,
Identifying, and Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skill Formation"
Discussant: Michael Keane, Yale University
General Discussion |
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10:30 am |
Coffee Break |
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11:00 am
11:45 am
12:10 pm |
Joseph Altonji, Yale University, and Tony
Smith, Yale University, "Modeling Earnings Dynamics"
(with Ivan Vidangos)
Discussant: Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University
General Discussion |
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12:30 pm |
Lunch |
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
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James Albrecht
Joseph Altonji
Marnix Amand
Rudiger Bachmann
Jinhui Bai
Gadi Barlevy
Audra Bowlus
Björn Brügemann
Kenneth Burdett
Pedro Carneiro
Flavio Cunha
Zvi Eckstein |
Eduardo Engel
Hanming Fang
Robert Hall
James Heckman
Kevin Kallock
Gueorgui Kambourov
Michael Keane
John Kennan
Seik Kim
Per Krusell
Fabian Lange
Donghoon Lee
Rasmus Lentz |
Lars Ljungqvist
Iourii Manovskii
Costas Meghir
Rafael Melo
Guido Menzio
Dale Mortensen
Giuseppe Moscarini
Eva Nagypal
Theo Papageorgiou
Luigi Pistaferri
Fabien Postel-Vinay
Edward Prescott
Diego Restuccia |
Jean-Marc Robin
Richard Rogerson
Thomas Sargent
Robert Shimer
Carolina Silva
Tony Smith
Kaj Thomsson
Ivan Vidangos
Gianluca Violante
Susan Vroman
Kenneth Wolpin
Randall Wright |
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