Cornell/Penn State Macro Workshop
Co-Directors: Karl Shell (Cornell)
Neil Wallace
(Penn State)
September 22-23, 2007
at Cornell University
SATURDAY, September 22
229 ILR Conference Center
8:00 - 8:55Light Refreshments (227 Food Service Area, ILR Conference Center) 8:55 - 9:00Karl Shell (Cornell), Introduction and Welcome (229 ILR Conference Center) Saturday morning chair: Serguey Braguinsky (SUNY Buffalo) 9:00 - 10:00Neil Wallace (Penn State University) "Optimal Central-Bank Intervention: An Example" (joint w/Alexei Deviatov) 10:00 - 10:10Coffee Break (227 Food Service Area) 10:10 - 11:10Karel Mertens (Cornell University) "The Role of Expectations in Sudden Stops" 11:10 - 12:10Susumu Imai (Queen's University) "A Quantile-Based Test of Protection for Sale Model" (joint w/Hajime Katayama & Kala Krishna) 12:15 - 1:15Lunch (227 Food Service Area) Saturday afternoon chair: Felicia Ionescu (Colgate University) 1:30 - 2:30Sangeeta Pratap (Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York) "Crises and Recoveries: A Disaggregated Approach" (joint w/Carlos Urrutia) 2:30 - 3:30Avantika Chowdhury (Penn State University) "Farsighted Network Formation with Capacity Constraints" 3:30 - 3:45Coffee Break (227 Food Service Area) 3:45 - 4:45Todd Keister (Research and Statistics Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
"Run Equilibria in a Model of Financial Intermediation" (joint w/Huberto Ennis) 6:00Dinner at Karl & Susan Shell's All Penn State guests and invited Cornell participants.
917 Wyckoff Road, 607-272-3579SUNDAY, September 23
229 ILR Conference Center
8:00 - 9:00Light Refreshments (227 Food Service Area) Sunday morning chair: Neil Wallace (Penn State University) 9:00 - 10:00Huanxing Yang (Ohio State University) "Investment Cycles, Strategic Delay, and Self-Correcting Cascades" (joint w/James Peck) 10:00 - 10:10Coffee Break (227 Food Service Area) 10:10 - 11:10Manaswini Bhalla (Penn State University) "Endogenous Timing, Payoff Externalities and Informational Cascades" 11:10 - 12:10Viktor Tsyrennikov (Cornell University) "Indexed Bonds and Default in Emerging Economies" 12:10 - 1:10Lunch (227 Food Service Area)
Conference Staff:
Amy Moesch (weekdays
only): alg5@cornell.edu; 607-255-5617
Ding Ding: dd99@cornell.edu;
607-592-9854