PROGRAM / PROGRAMME

Twelfth Annual Meetings of the
Canadian Macroeconomics Study Group

Douzième conférence annuelle du
Groupe d’étude canadien en macroéconomique


 



THURSDAY
NOVEMBER 5
from 7:30 pm to 9 pm
JEUDI
5 NOVEMBRE
de 19 h 30 à 21 h
Cocktail
Château Versailles, salon Chateauneuf, 
1808, Sherbrooke West / Ouest
FRIDAY
NOVEMBER 6
VENDREDI
6 NOVEMBRE
Coffee / Café   08:15 – 08:45
SESSION I :
 

Chair / président :

LABOR MARKETS /
MARCHÉ DU TRAVAIL

Francisco J. RUGE-MURCIA (Université de Montréal)

08:45 – 11:00
Speakers / présentateurs : Stephen D. WILLIAMSON (University of Iowa)
Cheng, Wang (Carnegie-Mellon University))
"Unemployment Insurance and Experience Rating"
 
  Christina ECHEVARRIA (University of Saskatchewan)
Alberto Alonso (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
"Effects of Persistent Unemployment on Long Run Growth"
 
  Jonas FISHER (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Jeffrey R. Campbell (University of Rochester)
"Aggregate Employment Fluctuations and Microeconomic Asymmetries"
 
Discussants/commentateurs: Ian KING (University of Victoria)
Christian ZIMMERMANN (UQAM)
Bev LAPHAM (Queen's University
 
Break / Pause   11:00 – 11:30
SESSION II :
 

Chair / président :

CURRENCY CRISIS /
CRISE MONÉTAIRE

Steven AMBLER (UQAM)

11:30 – 12:15
Speaker / présentateur : Martin EICHENBAUM (Northwestern University)
Craig Burnside (The World Bank)
Sergio Rebelo (Northwestern University)
"Prospective Deficits and the Asian Currency Crises"
 
Discussants/commentateurs: Larry SCHEMBRI (Carleton University)  
LUNCH   12:15 – 14:15
SESSION III :
 

Chair / président :

INFLATION /
INFLATION

Alain PAQUET (UQAM)

14:15 – 15:45
Speakers / présentateurs : Allen HEAD (Queen’s University)
Shouyong Shi (Queen’s University)
"Search, Inflation, and Exchange Rates"
 
  Patrick KEHOE (University of Pennsylvania )
V. V. Chari (University of Minnesota )
"On the Need for Fiscal Constraints in a Monetary Union"
 
Discussants/commentateurs: Martin BOILEAU (University of Colorado)
Huw LLOYD-ELLIS (University of Toronto)
 
Break / Pause   15:45 – 16:15
SESSION IV :
 

Chair / président :

INCOME DISTRIBUTION /
DISTRIBUTION DE REVENU

Christian BELZIL (Concordia University)

16:15 – 17:45
Speakers / présentateurs : James REDEKOP (University of Waterloo)
David Andolfatto (University of Waterloo)
"Heterogeneous Time-Preference and the Distribution of Income and Wealth"
 
  John KNOWLES (University of Pennsylvania)
"Can Parental Decisions Explain U.S. Income Inequality?"
 
Discussants/commentateurs: Baldev RAJ (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Desiré VENCATACHELLUM (HEC)
 
SATURDAY
NOVEMBER 7
SAMEDI
7 NOVEMBRE
Coffee / Café   08:15 – 08:45
SESSION V :
 

Chair / président :

PRODUCTION PLANTS /
USINES DE PRODUCTION

Graham VOSS (University of New South Wales)

08:45 – 10:15
Speakers / présentateurs : Jeffrey R. CAMPBELL (University of Rochester)
Jonas Fisher (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
"Organizational Flexibility and Employment Dynamics at Young and Old Plants"
 
  Shouyong SHI (Queen’s University)
"Product Market and Size-Wage Differential"
 
Discussants/commentateurs: Paul GOMME (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)
Andreas HORNSTEIN (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
 
Break / Pause   10:15 – 10:45
SESSION VI :
 

Chair / président :

MONEY /
MONNAIE

Angelo MELINO (University of Toronto)

10:45 – 12:15
Speakers / présentateurs : Randall WRIGHT (University of Pennsylvania)
"A Model of Commodity Money : With Applications to Gresham’s Law and the Debasement Puzzle"
 
  Miquel FAIG (University of Toronto)
"Money in a Model with Overlapping Production Activities"
 
Discussants/commentateurs: Shouyong SHI (Queen’s University)
Michel NORMANDIN (UQAM)
 
LUNCH   12:15 – 14:00
SESSION VII :
 
 

Chair / président :

INVENTORIES AND TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS / INVENTAIRES ET PROGRÈS TECHNOLOGIQUE

 Luis RIVERA-BATIZ (McGill University)

14:00 – 15:30
Speakers / présentateurs : Andreas HORNSTEIN (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
Pierre-Daniel Sarte (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
"Staggered Prices Support the Production Smoothing Model of Inventories"
 
  Jeremy GREENWOOD (University of Rochester)
Michel Gort (State University of New York)
Peter Rupert (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)
"Measuring the Rate of Technological Progress in Structures"
 
Discussants/commentateurs:  Jeffrey CAMPBELL (University of Rochester)
François ORTALO-MAGNÉ (London School of Economics)
 
Break / Pause   15:30 – 16:00
SESSION VIII :
 

Chair / président :

ASSET PRICING /
PRIX DES ACTIFS

Emanuela CARDIA (Université de Montréal)

16:00 – 17:30
Speakers / présentateurs : Eric FISHER (Ohio State University)
"Explaining Bubbles in Experimental Asset Markets"
 
  Pascal ST-AMOUR (Université Laval)
Stephen Gordon (Université Laval)
"Asset Prices with Contingent Risk Preferences"
 
Discussants/commentateurs:  René GARCIA (Université de Montréal)
Huntley SCHALLER (Carleton University)
 

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