Vienna Macroeconomics Workshop 2008

• Optimal Stabilization Policy with Endogenous Firm Entry, Aleksander Berentsen (Bern) and Chris Waller (Notre Dame).
  Discussant: Allen Head (Queen's).
  

• Price Dispersion with Directed Search, Gabriele Camera (Iowa) and Cemil Selcuk (DePaul).
  Discussant: Ted Temzelides (Rice).
  Forthcoming: Journal of European Economic Association.
  
  
• Banking Panics and Deflation in Dynamic General Equilibrium, Francesca Carapella (EIEF).
  Discussant: Gerhard Sorger (Wien) .
  
  
• Housing Liquidity, Home Ownership, and Unemployment, Huw Lloyd-Ellis (Queen's) and Allen Head (Queen's).
  Discussant: Morris Davis (Wisconsin).
  
  
• Money Talks, Marie Hoerova (ECB), Cyril Monnet (FRB Philadelphia) and Ted Temzelides (Rice).
  Discussant: Harris Dellas (Bern).
  
  
• Enterprise Dyanmics and Finance: Distinguishing Mechanism Design from Exogenously Incomplete Market Models, Alexander Karaivanov (Simon Fraser University) and Robert Townsend (Chicago).
  Discussant: Jim MacGee (UWO).
  
  
• Political Commitment and Loss Aversion, Sevi Rodrigez-Mora (Edinburgh) and John Hassler (IIES and CEPR).
  Discussant: Luis Puch (Bank of Spain).
  
  
• Equilibrium Effects of Education Policies: A Quantitative Evaluation, Giovanni Gallipoli (UBC), Costas Meghir (UCL and IFS), and Giovanni Violante (NYU and CEPR).
  Discussant: John Knowles (Southampton).

• Holdups and Overinvestment in Physical Capital Markets, Andre Kurmann (UQAM).
  Discussant: Michael Reiter (IHS).
  
  
• The Household Revolution: Child-Care, Housework, and Female Labor Force Participation, Paul Gomme (Concordia) and Emmanuela Cardia (Montreal).
  Discussant: Alice Schoonbroodt (Southampton).
  
  
• The Rich, the Poor, and the Enforcer: Institutional Choice and Growth, Thorsten Koeppl (Queen's), Cyril Monnet (FRB Philadelphia) and Erwan Quintin (FRB Dallas).
  Discussant: J. C. Conesa (Autonoma).
  
  
• Run Equilibria in a Model of Financial Intermediation, Huberto Ennis (Carlos III) and Todd Keister (FRB New York).
  Discussant: Igor Livshits (UWO).
  
  
• An Efficient Approach to Analyzing State-Space Representations, David DeJong (Pittsburgh), Hariharan Dharmarajan (Pittsburgh), Jean-Francois Richar (Pittsburgh) and Roman Liesenfeld (Keil).
  Discussant: Hiro Kasahara (UWO).
  
  
• Efficient On-the-Job Search and the Business Cycle, Shouyong Shi (Toronto) and Guido Menzo (Pennsylvania).
  Discussant: Thijs van Rens (CREI and UPF).