8:00 - 8:55	Light Refreshments (227 Food Service Area, ILR Conference Center)
8:55 - 9:00	Karl Shell (Cornell University), Introduction and Welcome (229 ILR Conference Center)
Saturday morning chair:  Karel Mertens (Cornell University)
9:00 - 10:00	Stefania Albanesi (Columbia University): "Intertemporal Distortions in the Second Best' (joint w/Roc Armenter)
10:00 - 10:10	Coffee Break (227 Food Service Area)
10:10 - 10:15	Karl Shell (Cornell University): Monetary and Macroeconomics
10:15 - 11:15	Manolis Galenianos (Penn State University): "Market Power and Efficiency in a Search Model" (joint w/ Philipp Kircher & Gabor Virag)
11:15 - 12:15	Christian Hellwig (UCLA): "Money, Intermediaries and Cash-in-Advance Constraints"
12:15 - 1:30	Lunch (227 Food Service Area)
Saturday afternoon chair: Neil Wallace (Penn State University)
1:30 - 2:30	Monika Piazzesi (Stanford University): "Inflation and the Price of Real Assets" (joint w/Martin Schneider)
2:30 - 3:30	Levon Barseghyan (Cornell University): "Private Incentives vs. Class Interests: A Theory of Optimal Institutions with an Application to Growth" (joint w/Ani Guerdjikova)
3:30 - 3:45	Coffee Break (227 Food Service Area)
3:45 - 4:45	Koralai Kirabaeva (Cornell University): International Capital Flows and Liquidity Crises
6:00	Faculty dinner at Karl & Susan Shell's, 917 Wyckoff Road, 607-272-3579. Mobiles 607-592-9874 and 607-592-9873. Student dinner at Aladdin's Natural Eatery, 100 Dryden Road, 607-273-5000.

 

SUNDAY, October 5
229 ILR Conference Center

8:00 - 9:00	Light Refreshments (227 Food Service Area)
Sunday morning chair: Ruilin Zhou (Penn State University)
9:00 - 10:00	Martin Schneider (Stanford University): "Asset Trading and Valuation with Uncertain Exposure" (joint w/Juan Carlos Hatchondo and Per Krusell)
10:00 - 10:15	Coffee Break (227 Food Service Area)
10:15 - 11:15	Alejandro Riano (Penn State University): "Trade, Technology Adoption, and the Rise of the Skill Premium in Mexico"
11:15 - 12:15	Benjarong Suwankiri (Cornell University): "Redistribution and Immigration Policies: A Dynamic Political Economy Analysis"
12:15 - 2:00	Lunch (227 Food Service Area)

Financial support from the Center for Analytic Economics (CAE), the Cornell University Department of Economics and the Thorne Fund is gratefully acknowledged.