NATIONAL
BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
Twenty-fourth
Annual Conference on Macroeconomics
Daron
Acemoglu, Kenneth Rogoff and Michael Woodford, Organizers
April
10-11, 2009
The
Royal Sonesta Hotel
Riverfront
Room
PRELIMINARY
PROGRAM
FRIDAY APRIL 10:
 8:30 am         Continental
Breakfast
 9:00 am         JOHN GEANAKOPLOS,
                       The Leverage Cycle
                       Discussants: FRANKLIN ALLEN,
                                               HYUN
SHIN,
10:30 am        Break
11:00 am        CHRISTOPHER FOOTE, Federal Reserve Bank
of
                       KRISTOPHER GERARDI,
Federal Reserve Bank of
                       LORENZ GOETTE, Federal
Reserve Bank of
                       PAUL WILLEN, Federal Reserve
Bank of
                       Reducing Foreclosures
                       Discussants:  CHRISTOPHER MAYER,
                                                ATIF MIAN,
12:30 pm        Lunch – Charles Suites
 2:00 pm         EFFI
BENMELECH,
                       JENNIFER DLUGOSZ,
                       The Credit Rating Crisis
                       Discussants: ADAM ASHCRAFT, Federal Reserve Bank of
                                               BENGT
HOLMSTROM, MIT and NBER
 3:30 pm         Break
 4:00 pm         FATIH
GUVENEN,
                       BURHANETTIN KURUSCU,
                       A Quantitative Analysis of the Evolution of the
US Wage Distribution: 1970-2000
                       Discussants: DAVID AUTOR, MIT and NBER
                                               FRANCESCO
CASELLI,
 5:30 pm         Adjourn
 6:00 pm         Reception
and Group Dinner – Parkview Room
                       Dinner speaker: FREDERIC
MISHKIN,
                       The Financial Crisis and the Federal Reserve
SATURDAY APRIL 11:
 8:30 am         Continental
Breakfast
 9:00 am         GEORGE-MARIOS ANGELETOS, MIT and
NBER
                       JENNIFER LA’O, MIT
                       Noisy Business Cycles
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                       Discussants: CHRISTIAN HELLWIG, UC,
                                               ROBERT
KING,
10:30 am        Break
11:00 am        PAUL BEAUDRY,
                       BERND LUCKE,
                       Letting Different Views about Business Cycles
Complete (appendix)
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                       Discussants: JONAS FISHER, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
                                               STEPHANIE
SCHMITT-GROHE,
12:30 pm        Adjourn
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