QED Frontiers of Macroeconomics Workshop: 23 April 2010

9:00 - 9:30Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30 Ricardo Reis (Columbia University)
When Should Policymakers Make Announcements?
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 12:00 Kjetil Storesletten (FRB Minneapolis)
Growing like China (with Zheng Song and Fabrizio Zilibotti)
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 Samuel Kortum (University of Chicago)
Trade and the Global Recession (with Jonathan Eaton, Brent Neiman, and John Romalis)
2:00 - 3:00 Claudia Olivetti (Boston University)
Gender Roles and Medical Progress (with Stefania Albanesi)
3:00 - 3:30Coffee
3:30 - 4:30 Tony Smith (Yale University)
Inferring Labor Income Risk from Economic Choices: An Indirect Inference Approach (with Fatih Guvenen)