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 - 8:55
Light Refreshments (227 Food Service Area, ILR Conference Center)
8:55 - 9:00
Karl Shell (Cornell), Introduction and Welcome (229 ILR Conference Center)
Saturday morning chair:  Serguey Braguinsky (SUNY Buffalo)
9:00 - 10:00
Neil Wallace (Penn State University) "Optimal Central-Bank Intervention: An Example" (joint w/Alexei Deviatov)
10:00 - 10:10
Coffee Break (227 Food Service Area)
10:10 - 11:10
Karel Mertens (Cornell University) "The Role of Expectations in Sudden Stops"
11:10 - 12:10
Susumu Imai (Queen's University) "A Quantile-Based Test of Protection for Sale Model" (joint w/Hajime Katayama & Kala Krishna)
12:15 - 1:15
Lunch (227 Food Service Area)
Saturday afternoon chair: Felicia Ionescu (Colgate University)
1:30 - 2:30
Sangeeta Pratap (Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York) "Crises and Recoveries: A Disaggregated Approach" (joint w/Carlos Urrutia)
2:30 - 3:30
Avantika Chowdhury (Penn State University) "Farsighted Network Formation with Capacity Constraints"
3:30 - 3:45
Coffee Break (227 Food Service Area)
3:45 - 4:45
Todd Keister (Research and Statistics Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
"Run Equilibria in a Model of Financial Intermediation" (joint w/Huberto Ennis)
6:00

Dinner at Karl & Susan Shell's                     All Penn State guests and invited Cornell participants.
917 Wyckoff Road, 607-272-3579              

SUNDAY, September 23
229 ILR Conference Center

8:00 - 9:00
Light Refreshments (227 Food Service Area)
Sunday morning chair: Neil Wallace (Penn State University)
9:00 - 10:00
Huanxing Yang (Ohio State University) "Investment Cycles, Strategic Delay, and Self-Correcting Cascades" (joint w/James Peck)
10:00 - 10:10
Coffee Break (227 Food Service Area)
10:10 - 11:10
Manaswini Bhalla (Penn State University) "Endogenous Timing, Payoff Externalities and Informational Cascades"
11:10 - 12:10
Viktor Tsyrennikov (Cornell University) "Indexed Bonds and Default in Emerging Economies"
12:10 - 1:10
Lunch (227 Food Service Area)

 

        Conference Staff:

        Amy Moesch (weekdays only): alg5@cornell.edu; 607-255-5617
        Ding Ding: dd99@cornell.edu; 607-592-9854
        

        Map of the Cornell Campus and Conference Site

Directions from State College, PA to the Statler Hotel, Ithaca, NY

Directions from the Uris Hall/Statler Hotel to Karl and Susan Shell's House at 917 Wyckoff Road, Ithaca