QED Frontiers of Macroeconomics Workshop: 24 April 2009

9:00 - 9:30Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30 Raquel Fernandez (NYU)
Women's Rights and Development: Fertility, Selfish Husbands, and Altruistic Fathers
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 12:00 Gianluca Violante (NYU)
How much Insurance in Bewley Models? (with Greg Kaplan)
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 Annette Vissing-Jørgensen (Kellogg School, Northwestern University)
The Aggregate Demand for Treasury Debt (with Arvind Krishnamurthy)
2:00 - 3:00Ariel Burstein (UCLA)
Trade, Technology, and the Skilled Wage Premium
3:00 - 3:30Coffee
3:30 - 4:30 Randall Wright (University of Pennsylvania)
Information, Liquidity, Asset Prices, and Monetary Policy (with Benjamin Lester and Andrew Postlewaite)