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2009 Cowles Summer
Conference
INFORMATION AND BELIEFS IN MACROECONOMICS
June 24–25, 2009
Organizers: Björn Brügemann and Guillermo Ordonez
List of Attendees |
| WEDNESDAY |
8:30–9:30 |
Continental Breakfast |
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9:30–10:30 |
Venky Venkateswaran (UCLA), "Setting the Right Prices for the Wrong Reasons"
(with Christian Hellwig) |
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10:30–10:45 |
Coffee Break |
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10:45–11:45 |
Jennifer La’O (MIT), "Noisy Business Cycles" (with
George-Marios Angeletos) |
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12:00–1:30 |
Lunch |
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1:30–2:30 |
Fatih Guvenen (University of Minnesota),
"Inferring Labor Income Risk from Economic Choices: An Indirect Inference
Approach" (with Tony Smith) |
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2:30–2:45 |
Coffee Break |
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2:45–3:45 |
Mirko Wiederholt (Northwestern University),
"Business Cycle Dynamics under Rational
Inattention" (with Bartosz Mackowiak) |
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3:45–4:00 |
Coffee Break |
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4:00–5:00 |
Jordi Mondria (University of Toronto),
"Asymmetric Information, Portfolio Managers and
Home Bias" (with Wioletta Dziuda) |
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7:00 |
Dinner, Ibiza, 39 High Street |
| THURSDAY |
8:30–9:30 |
Continental Breakfast |
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9:30–10:30 |
Eric Sims (University of Michigan), “Expectations Driven Business
Cycles: An Empirical Evaluation” [Slides] |
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10:30–10:45 |
Coffee Break |
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10:45–11:45 |
Rudi Bachmann (University of Michigan),
"Firm-Specific Productivity Risk over
the Business Cycle: Facts and Aggregate Implications" (with Christian Bayer) |
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12:00–1:30 |
Lunch |
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1:30–2:30 |
Yuriy Gorodnichenko (UC Berkeley),
“What Can Surveys Tell us about Informational Rigidities” (with Oli Coibion) |
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2:30–2:45 |
Coffee Break |
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2:45–3:45 |
Eric Young (University of Virginia), “Information Heterogeneity in the Macroeconomy”
(with Ponpoje Porapakkarm) |
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3:45–4:00 |
Coffee Break |
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4:00–5:00 |
Giacomo Rondina (UC San Diego),
"Information Equilibria in Dynamic Economies" (with Todd Walker) |