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The NBER's Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth met at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on February 9. NBER Research Associates Andrew Atkeson, University of California, Los Angeles, and Robert King, Boston University, organized the meeting. The following papers were discussed:
David Card and Raj Chetty, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, and Andrea Weber, Institute for Advanced Studies, "Cash-on-Hand and Competing Models of Intertemporal Behavior: New Evidence from the Labor Market"
Discussant: Robert E. Hall, Stanford University and NBER
Jonathan Heathcote, Georgetown University; Kjetil Storesletten, University of Oslo; and Giovanni L. Violante, New York University, "Consumption and Labor Supply with Partial Insurance: An Analytical Framework"
Discussant: Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University
Steven J. Davis, University of Chicago and NBER; R. Jason Faberman, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; and John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER, "The Establishment-Level Behavior of Vacancies and Hiring"
Discussant: Robert Shimer, University of Chicago and NBER
Andreas Hornstein, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond; Per Krusell, Princeton University and NBER; and Giovanni Violante, New York University, "Frictional Wage Dispersion in Search Models: A Quantitative Assessment"
Discussant: Dale T. Mortensen, Northwestern University and NBER
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