Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting

The NBER's Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth held its annual summer research meeting in Cambridge on July 12. Andrew B. Abel, Wharton School and NBER, and Ivan Werning, MIT and NBER, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

Andrew Atkeson, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER; V.V. Chari, University of Minnesota and NBER; and Patrick J. Kehoe, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER, "Sophisticated Monetary Policies"

Critic: Marco Bassetto, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and NBER

George-Marios Angeletos, MIT and NBER, and Alessandro Pavan, Northwestern University, "Policy with Dispersed Information on Aggregate Shocks"

Critic: Harold Cole, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Francisco J. Buera and Giorgio E. Primiceri, Northwestern University and NBER; and Alexander Monge-Naranjo, Northwestern University, "Learning the Wealth of Nations"

Critic: Daron Acemogtu, MIT and NBER

Valerie A. Ramey, University of California, San Diego and NBER,

"Identifying Government Spending Shocks: It's All in the Timing"

Critic: Jordi Gall, CREI and NBER

Mark Aguiar, University of …

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Publication information: Article title: Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting. Contributors: Not available. Journal title: NBER Reporter. Volume: 2008. Issue: 3 Publication date: Fall 2008. Page number: 29+. © 1999 National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. COPYRIGHT 2008 Gale Group.

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