Macro/Labor Economics Conference
May 5-7, 2006
Organizers: Michael Keane and Giuseppe Moscarini
| FRIDAY | |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 1:20 | Opening Remarks |
| 1:30 | 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) |
| 2:40 | General Discussion |
| 3:00 | Break |
| 3:30 | 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) |
| 4:40 | General Discussion |
| 5:00 | Per Krusell (Princeton University), “Frictional Wage Inequality: A Puzzle?” (with Andreas Hornstein and Gianluca Violante) Discussant: Björn Brügemann (Yale University) |
| 6:10 | General Discussion |
| 7:00 | Dinner at Zinc |
| SATURDAY | |
| 7:45 | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 | 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) |
| 9:40 | General Discussion |
| 10:00 | Break |
| 10:30 | Dale Mortensen (Northwestern University), “Optimal Growth through Product Innovation” (with Rasmus Lentz) Discussant: Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University |
| 11:40 | General Discussion |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 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 | Break |
| 3:30 | 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) |
| 4:40 | General Discussion |
| 5:00 | Robert Shimer (University of Chicago), “Mismatch” Discussant: Kenneth Burdett (University of Pennsylvania) |
| 6:10 | General Discussion |
| 7:00 | Dinner at Scoozzi |
| SUNDAY | |
| 8:30 | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 | James Heckman and Flavio Cunha (University of Chicago), “Formulating, Identifying, and Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skill Formation” Discussant: Michael Keane (Yale University) |
| 10:10 | General Discussion |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 11:00 | Joseph Altonji and Tony Smith (Yale University), “Modeling Earnings Dynamics” (with Ivan Vidangos) Discussant: Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford University) |
| 12:10 | General Discussion |
| 12:30 | 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 |