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 |
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| Cocktail
Château Versailles, salon Chateauneuf, 1808, Sherbrooke West / Ouest |
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| FRIDAY
NOVEMBER 6 |
VENDREDI
6 NOVEMBRE |
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| 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" |
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| Christina ECHEVARRIA (University
of Saskatchewan)
Alberto Alonso (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) "Effects of Persistent Unemployment on Long Run Growth" |
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| Jonas FISHER (Federal Reserve
Bank of Chicago)
Jeffrey R. Campbell (University of Rochester) "Aggregate Employment Fluctuations and Microeconomic Asymmetries" |
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| Discussants/commentateurs: | Ian KING (University of Victoria)
Christian ZIMMERMANN (UQAM) Bev LAPHAM (Queen's University) |
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| 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" |
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| 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" |
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| Patrick KEHOE (University of
Pennsylvania )
V. V. Chari (University of Minnesota ) "On the Need for Fiscal Constraints in a Monetary Union" |
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| Discussants/commentateurs: | Martin BOILEAU (University
of Colorado)
Huw LLOYD-ELLIS (University of Toronto) |
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| 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" |
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| John KNOWLES (University of
Pennsylvania)
"Can Parental Decisions Explain U.S. Income Inequality?" |
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| Discussants/commentateurs: | Baldev RAJ (Wilfrid Laurier
University)
Desiré VENCATACHELLUM (HEC) |
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| SATURDAY
NOVEMBER 7 |
SAMEDI
7 NOVEMBRE |
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| 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" |
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| Shouyong SHI (Queen’s University)
"Product Market and Size-Wage Differential" |
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| Discussants/commentateurs: | Paul GOMME (Federal Reserve
Bank of Cleveland)
Andreas HORNSTEIN (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond) |
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| 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" |
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| Miquel FAIG (University of
Toronto)
"Money in a Model with Overlapping Production Activities" |
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| Discussants/commentateurs: | Shouyong SHI (Queen’s University)
Michel NORMANDIN (UQAM) |
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| 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" |
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| 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" |
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| Discussants/commentateurs: | Jeffrey CAMPBELL (University
of Rochester)
François ORTALO-MAGNÉ (London School of Economics) |
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| 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" |
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| Pascal ST-AMOUR (Université
Laval)
Stephen Gordon (Université Laval) "Asset Prices with Contingent Risk Preferences" |
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| Discussants/commentateurs: | René GARCIA (Université
de Montréal)
Huntley SCHALLER (Carleton University) |
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