SED 2012 - Society for Economic Dynamics

SED 2012 | Society for Economic DynamicsSunday June 24, 13:30 - 15:30Heterogeneous Agents and Incomplete MarketsLocation: Europa B, Elias Beach HotelIncome Risk in RecessionsFatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota; Serdar Ozkan, Federal Reserve Board; Jae Song, Social Security AdministrationInteraction between demand for labor and consumption over the business cycleWouter Den Haan, London School of EconomicsRedistributive Taxation in a Partial Insurance EconomyJonathan Heathcote, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis; Kjetil Storesletten, FRB Minneapolis; Gianluca Violante,NYUSolving General Incomplete Market Models with Substantial HeterogeneityThomas Mertens, New York UniversityTopics on Sovereign DebtLocation: Atrium B, St. Raphael HotelSovereign defaults and optimal reserves managementJavier Bianchi, NYU and Wisconsin; Juan Hatchondo, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond; Leonardo Martinez, InternationalMonetary FundFiscal Union Consensus Design Under the threat of autarkyJosé Tavares, NOVA School of Business and EconomicsDebt and the U.S. EconomyKaiji Chen, Emory University; Ayse Imrohoroglu, USCForeign Debt and the Ricardian EquivalenceEric Mengus, Toulouse School of EconomicsCredit frictions and the zero lower boundLocation: Atrium A, St. Raphael HotelThe Optimal Inflation Rate in New Keynesian Models: Should Central Banks Raise Their Inflation Targets in Light ofthe Zero Lower Bound?Olivier Coibion, College of William and Mary; Yuriy Gorodnichenko, UC Berkeley; Johannes Wieland, University ofCalifornia, BerkeleySupply-Side Policies and the Zero Lower BoundJesus Fernandez-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania; Pablo Guerron-Quintana, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia;Juan Rubio-Ramirez, Duke UniversityExternal Financing and the Role of Financial Frictions over the Business Cycle: Measurement and TheoryAli Shourideh, University of Pennsylavnia; Ariel Zetlin-JonesOn the Effect of Monetary Policy During a Credit CrunchFrancisco Buera, University of California at Los AngelesThe Great RecessionLocation: Megaron C, St. Raphael HotelConsumption Dynamics During the Great RecessionDavid Berger; Joseph Vavra; Yale UniversityReconstructing the Great RecessionMichele Boldrin, Washington University in St Louis; Adrian Peralta-Alva, Federal Reserve Bank of St. LouisFiscal Sentiment and the Weak Recovery from the Great Recession: A Quantitative ExplorationFinn Kydland, University of California, Santa Barbara; Carlos Zarazaga, Federal Reserve Bank of DallasRare Shocks, Great RecessionsVasco Curdia; Marco Del Negro, Federal Reserve Bank of New York32