Cowles 75th Anniversary Conference

MACROECONOMICS CONFERENCE ON LUMPY ADJUSTMENT

June 11–June 12, 2007

Organizers: Ricardo Caballero and Eduardo Engel
List of Attendees

MONDAY 12:00–1:00 Lunch
1:00–2:00 Mark Zbaracki, Mark Bergen and Daniel Levy, "The Anatomy of a Price Cut: Discovering Organizational Sources of the Costs of Price Adjustment"
2:00–3:00 Ariel Burstein and Christian Hellwig, "Prices and Market Shares in a Menu Cost Model"
3:00–3:30 Coffee Break
3:30–4:30 Truman Bewley, "Report on an Ongoing Field Study of Pricing as it Relates to Menu Costs"
4:30–5:30 Jeff Campbell and Ben Eden, "Rigid Prices: Evidence from the U.S. Scanner Data"
7:00–9:00 Dinner, Scoozzi, 1104 Chapel Street
TUESDAY 8:30–9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00–10:00 George Alessandria, Joe Kaboski and Virgiliu Midrigan,"Lumpy Trade and Large Devaluations"
10:00–11:00 Emmanuel Dhyne, Catherine Fuss, Hashem Pesaran and Patrick Sevestre: "Lumpy Price Adjustments: A Microeconometric Analysis"
11:00–11:30 Coffee Break
11:30–12:30 Dmitry Stolyarov and Ennio Stacchetti, "Obsolescence of Durable Goods and Optimal Consumption"
12:30–1:30 Lunch
1:30–2:30 Russell Cooper, John Haltiwanger and John Willis, "Euler-Equation Estimation for Discrete Choice Models: A Capital Accumulation Application"
2:30–3:30 Aubhik Khan and Julia Thomas, "Inflation and Interest Rates with Endogenous Market Segmentation"
3:30–4:00 Coffee Break
4:00–5:00 Nick Bloom, "The Impact of Uncertainty Shocks: A Firm-Level Estimation and a 9/11 Simulation" and "Really Uncertain Business Cycles" (with Max Floetotto and Nir Jaimovich)
5:00 Adjourn


ATTENDEES

Christian Bayer (University of Dortmund)
Santiago Bazdresch (University of Minnesota)
Mark Bergen (University of Minnesota)
Nick Bloom (Stanford University and CEP)
Marco Bonomo (Fundacao Getulio Vargas)
William Brainard (Yale University)
Bjoern Bruegemann (Yale University)
Ariel Burstein (UCLA)
Jeffrey Campbell (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Carlos Carvalho (Princeton University)
Leif Danziger (Ben-Gurion University)
Emmanuel Dhyne
Benjamin Eden (Vanderbilt University)
Francois Gourio (Boston University)
George Hall (Brandeis University)
John Haltiwanger (University of Maryland)
Christopher House (University of Michigan)
Anil Kashyap (University of Chicago)
Aubhik Khan (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
Oleksiy Kryvtsov (Bank of Canada)
Daniel Levy (Bar-llan University)
Virgiliu Midrigan (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
Giuseppe Moscarini (Yale University)
Emi Nakamura (Harvard University)
Attila Ratfai (Central European University)
Robert Shiller (Yale University)
Anthony Smith (Yale University)
Nancy L. Stokey (University of Chicago)
Dmitriy Stolyarov (University of Michigan)
Julia Thomas (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
Antonella Tutino (Princeton University)
Nicolas Vincent (Northwestern University)
Jonathan Willis (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City)
Mark Zbaracki (New York University)