Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics

MACRO/LABOR ECONOMICS CONFERENCE

May 5–7, 2006
28 Hillhouse Avenue, Common Room

Organizers: Michael Keane and Giuseppe Moscarini

List of Participants

FRIDAY, MAY 5th

12:00 Lunch (under tent in backyard, 37 Hillhouse Avenue)
1:20 Opening Remarks
1:30


2:15
2:40
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
3:00 Coffee Break
3:30

4:15
4:40
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
5:00

5:45
6:10
Per Krusell, Princeton University, "Frictional Wage Inequality: A Puzzle?" (with Andreas Hornstein and Gianluca Violante)
   Discussant: Björn Brügemann, Yale University
   General Discussion
7:00 Dinner at Zinc, 964 Chapel Street

SATURDAY, MAY 6th

7:45 Continental Breakfast
8:30

9:15
9:40
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
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30

11:15
11:40
Dale Mortensen, Northwestern University, "Optimal Growth through Product Innovation" (with Rasmus Lentz)
   Discussant: Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University
   General Discussion
12:00 Lunch (under tent in backyard, 37 Hillhouse Avenue)
1:30
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?"
2:15 Richard Rogerson, Arizona State University, "Unemployment Insurance and the Theory of Labor Supply"
3:00 Coffee Break
3:30

4:15
4:40
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
5:00
5:45
6:10
Robert Shimer, University of Chicago, "Mismatch"
   Discussant: Kenneth Burdett, University of Pennsylvania
   General Discussion
7:00 Dinner at Scoozzi, 1104 Chapel Street

SUNDAY, MAY 7th

8:30 Continental Breakfast
9:00


9:45
10:10
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
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00

11:45
12:10
Joseph Altonji, Yale University, and Tony Smith, Yale University, "Modeling Earnings Dynamics" (with Ivan Vidangos)
   Discussant: Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University
   General Discussion
12:30 Lunch

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

James Albrecht, albrecht@georgetown.edu
Joseph Altonji, joseph.altonji@yale.edu
Marnix Amand, marnix.amand@yale.edu
Rudiger Bachmann, rudiger.bachmann@yale.edu
Jinhui Bai, jinhui.bai@yale.edu
Gadi Barlevy, gbarlevy@frbchi.org
Audra Bowlus, abowlus@uwo.ca
Björn Brügemann, bjoern.bruegemann@yale.edu
Kenneth Burdett, kennethb@econ.upenn.edu
Pedro Carneiro, p.carneiro@ucl.ac.uk
Flavio Cunha, flavio@uchicago.edu
Zvi Eckstein, eckstein@econ.umn.edu
Eduardo Engel, eduardo.engel@yale.edu
Hanming Fang, hanming.fang@yale
Robert Hall, rehall@stanford.edu
James Heckman, ,j-heckman@uchicago.edu
Kevin Kallock, kevin.kallock@yale.edu
Gueorgui Kambourov, g.kambourov@utoronto.ca
Michael Keane, michael.keane@yale.edu
John Kennan, jkennan@ssc.wisc.edu
Seik Kim, seik.kim@yale.edu
Per Krusell, pkrusell@princeton.edu
Fabian Lange, fabian.lange@yale.edu
Donghoon Lee, donghoon.lee@nyu.edu
Rasmus Lentz, rlentz@ssc.wisc.edu
Lars Ljungqvist, lars.ljungqvist@hhs.se
Iourii Manovskii, manovski@econ.upenn.edu
Costas Meghir, c.meghir@ucl.ac.uk
Rafael Melo, rafael.melo@yale.edu
Guido Menzio, gmenzio@econ.upenn.edu
Dale Mortensen, d-mortensen@northwestern.edu
Giuseppe Moscarini, giuseppe.moscarini@yale.edu
Eva Nagypal, nagypal@northwestern.edu
Theo Papageorgiou, theodore.papageorgiou@yale.edu
Luigi Pistaferri, pista@stanford.edu
Fabien Postel-Vinay, fabien.postel-vinay@bristol.ac.uk
Edward Prescott, edward.prescott@asu.edu
Diego Restuccia, diego.restuccia@utoronto.ca
Jean-Marc Robin, jean-marc.robin@univ-paris1.fr
Richard Rogerson, richard.rogerson@asu.edu
Thomas Sargent, ts43@nyu.edu
Robert Shimer, shimer@uchicago.edu
Carolina Silva, carolina.silva@yale.edu
Tony Smith, tony.smith@yale.edu
Kaj Thomsson, kaj.thommson@yale.edu
Ivan Vidangos, ivan.vidangos@yale.edu
Gianluca Violante, gianluca.violante@nyu.edu
Susan Vroman, vromans@georgetown.edu
Kenneth Wolpin, wolpink@econ.upenn.edu
Randall Wright, rwright@econ.upenn.edu