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W. ALLEN WALLIS INSTITUTE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY

WEGMANS CONFERENCE
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”


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