25th Anniversary of “Frontiers of Business Cycle Research” Conference

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PIER Conference

PCPSE Room 10
United States

Schedule

Friday, May 3, 2019

8:00 am - 8:40 am Light Breakfast    
8:40 am - 9:00 am Introductory Remarks (Mendoza/Cooley)  
9:00 am - 10:00 am Financial Frictions and Business Cycles Patrick Kehoe, Virgilio Midrigan,

& Elena Pastorino		 DISCUSSANT: Nobuhiro Kiyotaki
10:00 am - 11:00 am Credit booms, financial crises, and macroprudential policy Mark Gertler, Nobu Kiyotaki,

& Andrea Prestipino		 DISCUSSANT: Urban Jermann
11:00 am - 11:20 am Coffee Break    
11:20 am - 12:20 pm Asset Bubbles and Monetary Policy Feng Dong, Jianjun Miao

& Pengfei Wang		 DISCUSSANT: John Leahy
12:20 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch - The Forum Room 250    
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Uncertainty in Real Business Cycle Models Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, & Pablo Guerron DISCUSSANT: Francois Gourio
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm A Fisherian Approach to Explaining & Preventing Sudden Stops Javier Bianchi & Enrique Mendoza DISCUSSANT: Mark Aguiar
3:30 pm - 3:50 pm Coffee Break    
3:50 pm - 4:50 pm Intangible Capital and Measured Productivity Ellen McGrattan DISCUSSANT: Andy Atkeson
4:50 pm - 5:50 pm Cyclical Fluctuations in Gross Worker Flows Per Krusell, Toshihiko Mukoyama,

Aysegul Sahin & Richard Rogerson		 DISCUSSANT: Mark Bils
7:00 pm Conference dinner for Presenters, Discussants & Organizers    



Saturday, May 4, 2019

8:00 am - 9:00 am Light Breakfast    
9:30 am - 10:00 am Trends and Cyclical Dynamics in

Earnings Inequality		 Jonathan Heathcote, Fabrizio Perri

& Gianluca Violante		 DISCUSSANT: Aysegul Sahin
10:00 am - 11:00 am Paradox of Thrift Recessions Zhen Huo & José-Víctor Ríos-Rull DISCUSSANT: TBD
11:00 am - 11:20 am Coffee Break    
11:20 am - 12:20 pm Frictional Capital Reallocation with

Ex Post Heterogeneity		 Randall Wright, Sylvia Xiaolin Xiao,

Yu Zhu		 DISCUSSANT: Stephen Williamson
12:20 pm Lunch - The Forum Room 250