Preliminary Program
Saturday, March 28
9:00AM Registration and Breakfast (Location: Shimkin Hall)
9:55AM Opening Remarks (Location: KMC 3-70)
10:00AM Session I - Finance (Location: KMC 3-70)
Chair: Kim Ruhl (NYU Stern)
Juan Sanchez (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond) - Financing Development: The Role of Information Costs, joint with Cheng Wang (Iowa State)
Discussant: Marla Ripoll (University of Pittsburgh)
Joe Kaboski (Ohio State University) - A Structural Evaluation of a Large-Scale Quasi-Experimental Microfinance Initiative, joint with Robert Townsend (MIT)
Discussant: Shing-Yi Wang (NYU)
12:00PM Lunch - Distinguished Lecture: William Easterly (NYU) (Location: Shimkin Hall)
1:30PM Session II - Italian Economists (Location: KMC 3-70)
Chair: Yaw Nyarko (NYU)
Francesco Caselli (London School of Economics) - Resource Abundance, Development, and Living Standards: Evidence from Oil Discoveries in Brazil, joint with Guy Michaels (London School of Economics).
Discussant: Douglas Gollin (Williams College)
Michele Boldrin (Washington University in St. Louis) - Quality Ladders, Competition, and Endogenous Growth , joint with David Levine (Washington University in St. Louis).
Discussant: Alex Monge (Penn State)
3:30PM Coffee Break
4:00PM Session III - Institutions (Location: KMC 3-70)
Chair: Virgiliu Midrigan (NYU)
Simeon Alder (UCLA) - In the Wrong Hands: Complementarities, Resource Allocation, and Cross--Country TFP Differences.
Discussant: Gustavo Ventura (University of Iowa)
Manuel Amador (Stanford University) - Growth in the Shadow of Expropriation, joint with Mark Aguiar (University of Rochester).
Discussant: Berthold Herrendorf (Arizona State University)
6:00PM Beer - Follow Kim Ruhl
8:00PM Dinner at Macelleria - 48 Gansevoort Street - Meatpacking District
10:00PM More Beer? Ask Kim Ruhl
Sunday, March 29
8:30AM Breakfast (Location: KMC 3-70)
9:00AM Session IV - Openness (Location: KMC 3-70)
Chair: Tom Cooley (NYU Stern)
Yonskeok Shin (Washington University in St. Louis) - Productivity Growth and Capital Outflow: The Case of a Small Open Economy, joint with Paco Buera (UCLA).
Discussant: Robert Lucas (University of Chicago)
B. Ravikumar (University of Iowa) - On the Cross-Country Distribution of Welfare Gains from Trade, joint with Mike Waugh (NYU Stern and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis).
Discussant: Ana Cecilia Fieler (Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania)
11:00AM Coffee Break
11:30AM Session V - Amartya (Location: KMC 3-70)
Chair: Gian Luca Clementi (NYU Stern)
Amartya Lahiri (University of British Columbia) - Accounting for Development Through Investment Prices, joint with Roc Armenter (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia).
Discussant: Rui Castro (Universite de Montreal)
12:30PM Lunch & Farewell (Location: Shimkin Hall)
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