Mini Conferences
WEGMANS CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
November 13-14, 2004
A great thanks to the Wallis Institute for financial support for the conference. Download the .pdf version of the program here.
Friday, November 12, 2004
7:00 pm: DINNER at (TBA)
Saturday, November 13, 2004
SESSION I
9:15 am: Dror Goldberg: “Sectoral Shocks and Policy Responses in a Monetary Economy”
9:40 am: Adalbert Mayer: “Intergenerational Relationships over the Lifecycle and the Determination of Wages”
10:05 am: Samuel Danthine: “Business Turnover and the Search for Location”
10:30 am - 10:45 am: Break
10:45 am: Nezih Guner: “Endogenous Social Security”
11:10 am: Charles Leung: “Property Markets and Public Policy - Spillovers through Collateral Effect”
12:15 pm – 1:45 pm: LUNCH at (TBA)
SESSION II
2:00 pm: Guillaume Vandenbrouke: “The American Frontier: a Hundred Years of Western Settlement”
2:25 pm: Marla Ripoll: “Agriculture, Aggregation, and Development Accounting”
2:50 pm: Rui Castro: “Legal Institutions, Sectoral Heterogeneity, and Economic Development”
3:15 pm - 3:30 pm: Break
3:30 pm: Jianjun Miao: “TBA”
3:55 pm: Rui Albuquerque: “Why is there a Home Bias?”
4:20 pm - 5:05 pm – SENIOR SPEAKER: Michele Boldrin : “TBA”
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm: SOCCER at the Field House
8:30 pm: DINNER at (TBA)
Sunday, November 14, 2004
SESSION III
9:15 am: Aysegul Sahin: “On the Welfare Effect of Cyclical Policies under Incomplete Markets and Labor Market Frictions”
9:40 am: Burhan Kuruscu: “The Effect of Minimum Wages on Employment and Training”
10:05 am: Toshihiko Mukoyama: “Learning-by-Doing and Persistence of the Business Cycle”
10:30 am - 10:45 am: Break
10:45 am: Daniele Coen Pirani: “Shareholders Unanimity with Incomplete Markets”
11:10 am: Juan Carlos Cordoba: “U.S. Inequality: Debt Constraints or Incomplete Markets?”
11:35 am: Jorge Soares: “Borrowing Constraints, Parental Altruism and Human Capital Accumulation”
12:00 am - 12:45 pm - SENIOR SPEAKER: Pierre Sarte : “Productivity, Employment, and Inventories in a Sticky Price Model”