Cornell/Penn State Macro Workshop
Co-Directors: Karl Shell (Cornell)
Neil Wallace
(Penn State)
September 23-24, 2006
at Cornell University
SATURDAY, September 23
423 ILR Conference Center
8:00 - 8:55Light Refreshments (430 Food Service Area, ILR Conference Center) 8:55 - 9:00Karl Shell (Cornell), Introduction and Welcome (423 ILR Conference Center) Saturday morning chair: Pablo Beker (visiting Cornell) 9:00 - 10:00Jayant Ganguli (Cornell) "Supply Signals, Complementarities, and Multiplicity in Asset Prices and Information Acquisition" joint w/Liyan Yang 10:00 - 10:10Coffee Break (430 Food Service Area) 10:10 - 11:10Manolis Galenianos (Penn State) "Directed Multilateral Matching in a Monetary Economy" joint w/Philipp Kircher 11:10 - 12:10Chao Gu (Cornell) "Standing in Line to Withdraw" 12:15 - 1:15Lunch (430 Food Service Area) Saturday afternoon chair: Fernando Vega-Redondo (Universidad de Alicante & University of Essex, visiting Cornell) 1:30 - 2:30Isa Hafalir (Penn State) "Asymmetric Auctions with Resale" joint w/Vijay Krishna 2:30 - 3:30Nicholas Kiefer (Cornell) "The Probability Approach to Default Estimation" 3:30 - 3:45Coffee Break (430 Food Service Area) 3:45 - 4:45Daniel Xu (Penn State) "Firm Learning, Market Selection and Industry Productivity Dynamics" 4:45 - 5:45Alberto Bisin (New York University) "Distribution of Wealth and Redistributive Policies" joint w/Jess Benhabib 6:00Dinner at Karl & Susan Shell's By invitation only.
917 Wyckoff Road, 607-272-3579SUNDAY, September 24
423 ILR Conference Center
8:00 - 9:00Light Refreshments (430 Food Service Area) Sunday morning chair: Ed Green (Penn State) 9:00 - 10:00Edith Sand (Tel Aviv University) "Immigration and the Survival of Social Security: A Political Economy Model" (joint w/Assaf Razin) 10:00 - 10:10Coffee Break (430 Food Service Area) 10:10 - 11:10Ricardo Cavalcanti (EPGE/FGV) "On the Optimal Distribution of Money" joint w/Paulo Monteiro 11:10 - 12:10Pengfei Wang (Cornell) "Volatility, Growth, and Large Welfare Gains from Stabilization Policies"
(joint w/Yi Wen) 12:10 - 1:10Box Lunch (430 Food Service Area)
Conference Staff:
Amy Moesch (weekdays
only): alg5@cornell.edu; 607-255-5617
Chao Gu: cg223@cornell.edu;
607-227-5968
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