Cornell/Penn State Macro Workshop

Co-Directors: Karl Shell (Cornell)
Neil Wallace (Penn State)

November 17-18, 2001
at Cornell University

Statler Hotel, Ithaca

SATURDAY, November 17

8:00 - 8:55
Breakfast (Pennsylvania Room)
8:55 - 9:00
Karl Shell (Cornell), Introduction and Welcome (Yale/Princeton Room)
Saturday morning chair: Assaf Razin (Cornell) (Yale/Princeton Room)
9:00 - 10:00
Nezih Guner (Penn State), "Love and Money: A
Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Household
Sorting and Inequality"
10:00 - 10:10
Coffee Break (outside Yale/Princeton Room)
10:10 - 11:10
Stephen Spear (Carnegie Mellon), "The Electricity Market Game"
11:10 - 12:10
Neil Wallace (Penn State), "A Resolution of the National
Banking System Note-issue Puzzle"
(joint with Bruce
Champ of the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank)
12:15 - 1:30
Lunch (Pennsylvania Room)
Saturday afternoon chair: Neil Wallace (Penn State) (Yale/Princeton Room)
1:45 - 2:45
Nigar Hashimzade (Cornell), "Endogenous Business Cycle
with Labor Market Search"
2:45 - 3:00
Coffee Break (outside Yale/Princeton Room)
3:00 - 4:00
Sergei Izmalkov (Penn State), "English Auctions with
Reentry"
 Abstract
4:00 - 5:00
Assaf Razin (Cornell) "Aging of Population and Social
Security: Median-Voter Theory and Evidence"

"Political Economics of Capital Income Taxation with
Aging Population"
(Preliminary and Incomplete)
7:00

Dinner at Karl and Susan Shell's
917 Wyckoff Road, 607-272-3579

SUNDAY, November 18

8:00 - 9:00
Breakfast (Pennsylvania Room)
Sunday morning chair: Stephen Spear (Carnegie Mellon) (Yale/Princeton Room)
9:00 - 10:00
Yi Wen (Cornell), "Uniform Working Hours: A Culprit of Structural Unemployment"
10:00 - 11:00
Tatiana Mikhailova (Penn State), "Where Russians Should
Live: A Counterfactual Alternative to Soviet Location Policy"
11:00 - Noon
Arturo Anton (Cornell), "On the Welfare Implications of the Optimal Monetary
Policy"
Noon - 1:00
Picnic Lunch (Pennsylvania Room)

 

        Conference Staff:

        Amy Gowan (weekdays only): alg5@cornell.edu; 607-255-4254
        Nigar Hashimzade: shelloffice@cornell.edu; 607-255-5618
        Luca Bossi: lb60@cornell.edu
        Maria Laura Sanchez-Puerta: mls83@cornell.edu

 

Directions from State College, PA to the Statler Hotel, Ithaca, NY

Directions from the Statler Hotel to Karl and Susan Shell's House at 917 Wyckoff Road, Ithaca

Directions from Uris Hall, Cornell University to Karl and Susan Shell's House at 917 Wyckoff Road, Ithaca