Publication: NBER Reporter
Publication Date: 22-DEC-06
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
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The NBER's Working Group on Macroeconomics and Individual Decision Making held a conference in Boston on November 4. Working Group Directors George Akerlof, University of California at Berkeley, and Robert Shiller, NBER and Yale University, organized the meeting. These topics were discussed:
"Utility and Happiness"--Miles Kimball, University of Michigan and NBER, and Robert Willis, University of Michigan
Discussant: Christopher Hsee, University of Chicago
"Leadership in Groups: A Monetary Policy Experiment"--Alan S. Blinder, Princeton University and NBER, and John Morgan, University of California at Berkeley
Discussant: Petra Geraats, University of Cambridge
"Why Has CEO Pay Increased So Much?"--Xavier Gabaix, MIT and NBER, and Augustin Landier, New York University
Discussant: George Baker, Harvard University and NBER
"Coarse Thinking and Persuasion"--Sendhil Mullainathan and Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER, and Joshua Schwartzstein, Harvard University
Discussant: Eric Zitzewitz, Stanford Univcrsity
"The Rising-Tide Tax System: Indexing (at Least Partially) for Changes in Inequality"--Leonard Burman and Jeffrey Rohaly, Tax Policy Center, and Robert Shiller
Discussant: Christopher Foote, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and...
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