From July 6 to 10, I attended the Impulse and Propagation Mechanisms group workshop during the 2015 NBER Summer Institute in Boston. I havre presented our recent work with Paul Beaudry and Dana Galicia, “Reviving The Limit Cycle View of Business Cycles“. The full progam of the workshop is given below.
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC. |
SI 2015 Impulse and Propagation Mechanisms |
Lawrence Christiano and Martin S. Eichenbaum, Organizers |
July 6-10, 2015 |
University Room – BC Royal Sonesta Hotel 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd. Cambridge, MA |
PROGRAM |
Monday, July 06 | |
8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries |
9:00 am |
Cosmin Ilut, Duke University and NBER Rosen Valchev, Boston College Nicolas Vincent, HEC Montreal Paralyzed by Fear: Rigid and Discrete Pricing under Demand Uncertainty |
10:00 am | Break |
10:15 am | Javier Bianchi, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Self Fulfilling Unemployment Crises |
11:15 am | Break |
11:30 am | Julian Kozlowski, New York University Laura Veldkamp, New York University and NBER Venky Venkateswaran, New York University and NBER The Tail that Wags the Economy: Belief-Driven Business Cycles and Persistent Stagnation |
12:30 pm | Lunch and Adjourn |
Tuesday, July 07 | |
8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries |
9:00 am | Paul Beaudry, University of British Columbia and NBER Dana S. Galizia, University of British Columbia Franck Portier, Toulouse School of Economics Reviving the limit cycle view of Macroeconomic Fluctuations |
10:00 am | Break |
10:15 am | Marcus Hagedorn, Institute for Advanced Studies Jessie Handbury, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Demand Stimulus, Inflation and Marginal Costs: Empirical Evidence |
11:15 am | Break |
11:30 am | Olivier Coibion, University of Texas at Austin and NBER Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Saten Kumar, AUT University How Do Firms Form Their Expectations? New Survey Evidence |
12:30 pm | Lunch and Adjourn |
Wednesday, July 08 | |
8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries |
9:00 am | Zvi Eckstein, Boston University Ofer Setty, Tel Aviv University David Weiss, Tel Aviv University Financial Risk and Unemployment |
10:00 am | Break |
10:15 am | Jordi Gali, Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional and NBER Hysteresis and the European Unemployment Problem Revisited |
11:15 am | Break |
11:30 am | Vasco M. Carvalho, CREI Basile Grassi, Paris School of Economics Large Firm Dynamics and the Business Cycle |
12:30 pm | Lunch and Adjourn |
6:00 pm | Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel |
Thursday, July 9: | |
8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries |
9:00 am | Michael Woodford, Columbia University and NBER Mariana Garcia Schmidt, Columbia University Are Low Interest Rates Deflationary? A Paradox of Perfect-Foresight Analysis |
10:00 am | Break |
10:15 am | Lawrence Christiano, Northwestern University and NBER Martin Eichenbaum, Northwestern University and NBER Benjamin Johannsen, Federal Reserve Board Does the New Keynesian Model have a Multiplicity Problem? |
11:15 am | Break |
11:30 am | Mark Gertler, New York University and NBER Diego Comin, Dartmouth College and NBER TBA |
12:30 pm | Lunch and Adjourn |
Friday, July 10 | |
8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries |
9:00 am | Mirko Wiederholt, Goethe University Frankfurt Empirical Properties of Inflation Expectations and the Zero Lower Bound |
10:00 am | Break |
10:15 am | Oscar Jorda, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Moritz Schularick, University of Bonn Alan M. Taylor, University of California at Davis and NBER Leveraged Bubbles |
11:15 am | Break |
11:30 am | Monika Piazzesi, Stanford University and NBER Martin Schneider, Stanford University and NBER Payments, Credit and Asset Prices |
12:30 pm | Lunch and Adjourn |