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 - 8:55
Light Refreshments (430 Food Service Area, ILR Conference Center)
8:55 - 9:00
Karl Shell (Cornell), Introduction and Welcome (423 ILR Conference Center)
Saturday morning chair:  Pablo Beker (visiting Cornell)
9:00 - 10:00
Jayant Ganguli (Cornell) "Supply Signals, Complementarities, and Multiplicity in Asset Prices and Information Acquisition" joint w/Liyan Yang
10:00 - 10:10
Coffee Break (430 Food Service Area)
10:10 - 11:10
Manolis Galenianos (Penn State) "Directed Multilateral Matching in a Monetary Economy" joint w/Philipp Kircher
11:10 - 12:10
Chao Gu (Cornell) "Standing in Line to Withdraw"
12:15 - 1:15
Lunch (430 Food Service Area)
Saturday afternoon chair: Fernando Vega-Redondo (Universidad de Alicante & University of Essex, visiting Cornell)
1:30 - 2:30
Isa Hafalir (Penn State) "Asymmetric Auctions with Resale" joint w/Vijay Krishna
2:30 - 3:30
Nicholas Kiefer (Cornell) "The Probability Approach to Default Estimation"
3:30 - 3:45
Coffee Break (430 Food Service Area)
3:45 - 4:45
Daniel Xu (Penn State) "Firm Learning, Market Selection and Industry Productivity Dynamics"
4:45 - 5:45
Alberto Bisin (New York University) "Distribution of Wealth and Redistributive Policies" joint w/Jess Benhabib
6:00

Dinner at Karl & Susan Shell's                     By invitation only.
917 Wyckoff Road, 607-272-3579              

SUNDAY, September 24
423 ILR Conference Center

8:00 - 9:00
Light Refreshments (430 Food Service Area)
Sunday morning chair: Ed Green (Penn State)
9:00 - 10:00
Edith Sand (Tel Aviv University) "Immigration and the Survival of Social Security: A Political Economy Model" (joint w/Assaf Razin)
10:00 - 10:10
Coffee Break (430 Food Service Area)
10:10 - 11:10
Ricardo Cavalcanti (EPGE/FGV) "On the Optimal Distribution of Money" joint w/Paulo Monteiro
11:10 - 12:10
Pengfei Wang (Cornell) "Volatility, Growth, and Large Welfare Gains from Stabilization Policies"
(joint w/Yi Wen)
12:10 - 1:10
Box 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
        

        Map of the Cornell Campus and Conference Site

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