NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2008

 

NBER Economic Fluctuations and Growth

Macro Perspectives Workshop

 

July 14 – 18, 2008

 

Richard Rogerson, Robert Shimer and Randall Wright, Organizers

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Parkview Room

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 14:

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

ROBERT HALL, Stanford University and NBER

 

General Equilibrium with Customer Relationships: A Dynamic Analysis of Rent-Seeking

 

 

 2:00 pm

PHILIPP KIRCHER, University of Pennsylvania

 

Sorting and Decentralized Price Competition

 

(joint with Jan Eeckhout)

 

 

 3:00 pm

Break

 

 

 3:30 pm

IOURII MANOVSKII, University of Pennsylvania

 

Wages over the Business Cycle: Implicit Contracts or Spot Markets?

 

(joint with Marcus Hagedorn)

 

 

 4:30 pm

MANOLIS GALENIANOS, Pennsylvania State University

 

A Search-Theoretic Model of the Retail Market for Illicit Drugs

 

(joint with Rosalie Pacula and Nicola Persico)

 

 

 5:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

TUESDAY, JULY 15:

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

GIUSEPPE MOSCARINI, Yale University

 

Non-Stationary Search Equilibrium

 

(joint with Fabien Postel-Vinay)

 

 

 2:00 pm

JAMES ALBRECHT and SUSAN VROMAN, Georgetown University

 

Albrecht-Axell Redux: Long-Run Nonstationary Equilibria

 

(joint with Fabien Postel-Vinay)

 

 

 3:00 pm

Break

 

 

 3:30 pm

GUIDO MENZIO, University of Pennsylvania

 

SHOUYONG SHI, University of Toronto

 

Efficient Search on the Job and the Business Cycle

 

 

 4:30 pm

VERONICA GUERRIERI, University of Chicago

 

ROBERT SHIMER, University of Chicago and NBER

 

RANDALL WRIGHT, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Competitive Search with Private Information

 

 

 5:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 16:

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

ESPEN MOEN, Norwegian School of Management

 

Industry Dynamics and Search in the Labor Market

 

(joint with Pietro Garibaldi)

 

 

 2:00 pm

JAVIER BIRCHENALL, UC, Santa Barbara

 

A Competitive Theory of Equilibrium Mismatch

 

 

 3:00 pm

Break

 

 

 3:30 pm

JASON FABERMAN, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

 

Job Flows, Jobless Recoveries, and the Great Moderation

 

 

4:30 pm

GIOVANNI VIOLANTE, New York University

 

Joint-Search Theory: New Opportunities and New Frictions

 

(joint with Fatih Guvenen and Bulent Guler)

 

 

 5:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 17:

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

RASMUS LENTZ, University of Wisconsin

 

An Empirical Model of Wage Dispersion with Sorting

 

(joint with Jesper Bagger)

 

 

 2:00 pm

JEREMY LISE, University College London

 

Matching, Sorting, and Wages

 

(joint with Costas Meghir and Jean-Marc Robin)

 

 

 3:00 pm

Break

 

 

 3:30 pm

BEN LESTER, University of Western Ontario

 

Directed Search with Multiple Vacancies

 

 

 4:30 pm

PIETER GAUTIER, Tinbergen Institute

 

Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?

 

(joint with Jose Luis Moraga-Gonzalez and Ronald Wolthoff)

 

 

 5:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

FRIDAY, JULY 18:

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

LEO KAAS, University of Konstanz

 

Variable Search Intensity in an Economy with Coordination Unemployment

 

 

 2:00 pm

RACHEL NGAI, London School of Economics

 

Hot and Cold Seasons in the Housing Markets

 

(joint with SilvanaTenreyro)

 

 

 3:00 pm

ROGER FARMER, UC, Los Angeles

 

The Great Depression

 

 

 4:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

5/7/08