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Spring 2012 Cornell-PSU Macro Conference Schedule
April 14 & 15
Saturday, April 14
MORNING SESSION – 8:30 AM – 12:20 PM – room 102 Smeal College of Business
8:30 AM CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:55 AM GREETING
9:00 AM Felix Tintelnot (PSU) – “Borders, Geography, and Oligopoly: Evidence from the Wind Turbine Industry,” with K. Cosar
10:00 AM BREAK
10:20 AM Minwook Kang (CU) – “Price-Level Volatility in Incomplete Markets with Sunspots: Regularity and Welfare”
11:20 AM Boyan Jovanovic (NYU) – “Misallocation and Growth”
12:30 PM LUNCH At The Nittany Lion Inn, (out-of-town attendees and selected guests)
AFTERNOON SESSION: 2:15 PM – 5:30 PM - room 102 Smeal College of Business
2:15 PM Karel Mertens (CU) – “The Dynamic Effects of Personal and Corporate Income Tax Changes in the United States”
3:15 PM BREAK
3:30 PM R. Vijay Krishna (UNC) - “Dynamic Preference for Flexibility,”
with P. Sadowski
4:30 PM Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel (UPenn) – “The Union Threat”
7:00 PM CONFERENCE DINNER - (out-of-town attendees and selected guests)
Sunday, April 15
MORNING SESSION: 8:30 AM – 12:15 PM - room 112 Kern Building
8:30 AM CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
9:00 AM Viktor Tsyrennikov (CU) - “International Portfolio Choice under Recursive Preferences”
10:00 AM BREAK
10:15 AM Manolis Galenianos (PSU) – “Learning through Referrals”
11:15 AM Levon Barseghyan (CU) – “Growth and Fiscal Policy: a Positive Theory,”
with M. Battaglini
12:15 PM LUNCH and adjourn, lobby