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November 19-20, 2009 Minneapolis, Minnesota Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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Thursday, November 19, 2009 Conference Room 4-C
Moderator	Robert Shimer (University of Chicago)
10:00—11:00	“Growth and the Market for Ideas” [pdf] Speaker: Jonathan Chiu (Bank of Canada) (joint with Cesaire Meh and Randall Wright) [Slides] Discussant: Nancy Stokey (University of Chicago) [Slides]
11:00—12:00	“Retirement in a Life Cycle Model with Home Production” [pdf] Speaker: Richard Rogerson (Arizona State University) (joint with Johanna Wallenius) [Slides] Discussant: Eric French (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) [Slides]
12:00—1:30	Lunch (1st floor-Federal Reserve)
Moderator	Randy Wright (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
1:30—2:30	“An Equilibrium Theory of Learning, Search, and Wages” [pdf] Speaker: Shouyong Shi (University of Toronto) (joint with Francisco Gonzalez) [Slides] Discussant: Rob Shimer (University of Chicago) [Slides]
2:30—3:00	Coffee Break
3:00—4:00	“Assortative Learning” [pdf] Speaker: Jan Eeckhout (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) (joint with Xi Weng) [Slides] Discussant: Giuseppe Moscarini (Yale University) [Slides]
4:00—5:00	“Taxation of Human Capital and Wage Inequality: A Cross Country Analysis” [pdf] Speaker: Fatih Guvenen (University of Minnesota) (joint with Burhan Kuruscu and Serdar Ozkan) [Slides] Discussant: Kjetil Storesletten (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) [Slides]
7:00	Dinner (TBA)
Friday, November 20, 2009 Conference Room 4-C
Moderator	Richard Rogerson (Arizona State University)
9:00—10:00	“From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: An Economic Model of the Rise of Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization” [pdf] Speaker: Jeremy Greenwood (University of Pennsylvania) (joint with Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde and Nezih Guner) [Slides] Discussant: Alessandra Fogli (University of Minnesota) [Slides]
10:00—10:30	Coffee Break
10:30—11:30	“Detecting Household Production” [pdf] Speaker: Marianne Baxter (Boston University) (joint with Dana Rotz) [Slides] Discussant: Yongsung Chang (University of Rochester) [Slides]
11:30—12:30	“Competitive Search: A Test for Direction and Efficiency” [pdf] Speaker: Bryan Engelhardt (College of the Holy Cross) (joint with Peter Rupert) [Slides] Discussant: John Kennan (University of Wisconsin) [Slides]