This conference and a companion conference were held at the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago on April 23rd to the 25th and brought together a wide range of distinguished macro economists to present their ideas and proposed contributions to the new Handbook of Macroeconomics, which will be edited by John B. Taylor and Harald Uhlig. The widely-cited first volume of the Handbook of Macroeconomics was published in 1999 and according to the Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) is ranked first among all economics books downloaded.
Many significant economic events have occurred over the past fifteen years including the financial crisis, the Great Recession, the end of the Great Moderation, and rethinking of macroeconomic models and theories. This conference and the new Handbook address these recent issues and are sorely needed.
The agenda for the conference at the Hoover Institution is below.
ORGANIZERS
John B. Taylor, Stanford University
Harald Uhlig, University of Chicago
Thursday, April 9
| Time | Content | Authors | Discussant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:30 - 11:30 AM | Business Cycles | Edward Prescott | Robert Hodrick |
| 11:30 - 12:30 PM | The Facts of Economic Growth | Charles Jones | Bart Hobijn |
| 1:30 - 2:30 PM | Financial and Fiscal Crises | Michael Bordo Christopher Meissner |
Pierre Siklos |
| 2:30 - 3:30 PM | Solution and Estimation Methods for DSGE Models | Jesús Fernández-Villaverde Juan Rubio-Ramirez Frank Schorfheide |
Serguei Maliar |
| 3:45 - 4:45 PM | Housing and Macroeconomics | Monica Piazzesi Martin Schneider |
Amir Kermani |
Friday, April 10
| Time | Content | Authors | Discussant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 - 9:30 AM | Macroeconomic Shocks and Their Propagation | Valerie Ramey | Arvind Krishnamurthy |
| 9:30 - 10:30 AM | Macroeconomic Regimes and Regime Shifts | James Hamilton | Òscar Jordà |
| 10:45 - 11:45 AM | Recursive Contracts and Endogenously Incomplete Markets | Mikhail Golosov Aleh Tsyvinski |
Pablo Kurlat |
| 12:45 - 1:45 PM | Macroeconomics and Heterogeneity (including inequality) | Dirk Krueger Kurt Mitman Fabrizio Perri |
Christopher Tonetti |
| 1:45 - 2:45 PM | Natural Experiments in Macroeconomics | Tarek Hassan Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln |
Yuriy Gorodnichenko |
| 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Accounting for Business Cycles with Wedges | Pedro Brinca Varadarajan V. Chari Patrick Kehoe Ellen McGrattan |
Peter Klenow |
| 4:00 - 5:00 PM | Environmental Macroeconomics | John Hassler Per Krusell Anthony Smith |
Charles Kolstad |
Saturday, April 11
| Time | Content | Authors | Discussant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:15 - 9:15 AM | Models with Price and Wage Rigidities | John B. Taylor | Carl Walsh |
| 9:15 - 10:15 AM | Neoclassical Theories | Gary Hansen Lee Ohanian |
John Cochrane |
| 10:30 - 11:30 AM | Factor Models for Macroeconomics | James Stock Mark Watson |
Michael Bauer |
| 12:30 - 1:30 PM | Measuring Risk and Uncertainty | Nick Bloom Steven Davis |
Sebastian Di Tella |
| 1:30 - 2:30 PM | Macroeconomics of Persistent Slumps | Robert Hall | Cosmin Ilut |
If you have any questions about the event, contact Marie-Christine Slakey at slakey@stanford.edu.
