Tentative Program

Swiss National Bank Conference, October 2006:

"Microeconomic Adjustment and Macroeconomic Dynamics"

Ricardo Caballero (Massacusetts Institute of Technology) and Eduardo Engel (Yale University),

"Aggregation and Adjustment"

discussants: Oleksiy Krystov (Bank of Canada) and TBA

Russell Cooper (University of Texas-Austin), John Haltiwanger (University of Maryland) and Jonathan Willis (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City)

"Micro vs. Macro Employment Dynamics: Smoothing by Aggregate Price Effects or Heterogeneity?"

discussants: Julian Messina (European Central Bank) and Stephen Nickell (Bank of England)

Francois Gourio (Boston University) and Anil Kashyap (University of Chicago),

"Decomposing Aggregate Investment: Intensive vs. Extensive Margins"

discussants: Jeffrey Campbell (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) and Edward C. Prescott (Arizona State University and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) 

Aubhik Khan (FRB Philadelphia) and Julia Thomas (University of Minnesota),

"Idiosyncratic Shocks and the Role of Nonconvexities in Plant and Aggregate Investment Dynamics"

discussants: Robert E. Lucas, Jr. (University of Chicago) and Marcelo Veracierto  (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)  

Pete Klenow (Stanford University) and Jonathan Willis (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City)

"Rational Inattention and Sticky Prices"

discussants: Klaus Adam (European Central Bank) and Christopher Sims (Princeton University)

Laura Veldkamp (New York University) and Justin Wolfers (University of Pennsylvania),

"An Information-based Explanation for Industry Comovement"

discussants: Lucrezia Reichlin (European Central Bank) and TBA