Friday, October 26, 2007
9:00-10:00	Thomas Sargent (New York University): Evolution and Intelligent Design    Discussant: Harald Uhlig (University of Chicago)
10:00-10:30	coffee
10:30-11:30	John Cochrane (University of Chicago): Identification and Inflation Determination with Taylor Rules [Paper 1][Paper 2]    Discussant: Mark Watson (Princeton University)
11:30-11:45	break
11:45-12:45	Amir Yaron (University of Pennsylvania): Risks For the Long Run: Estimation and Inference (joint with Ravi Bansal - Duke University - and Dana Kiku - University of Pennsylvania)    Discussant: Kent Daniel (Goldman Sachs)
1:00-2:00	lunch
2:00-3:15	Panel Discussion: The Economics of Information: What Economists Can Learn from Wall Street. Chaired by Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University) Peter Knez (Barclays Global Investors) Robert Litterman (Goldman Sachs Asset Management) Scott Richard (Morgan Stanley)
3:15-3:45	coffee break
3:45-4:45	Ravi Jagannathan (Northwestern University): Why Have IPO Auctions Failed the Market Test? (joint with Ann E. Sherman - University of Notre Dame) [Paper] [Appendix D]     Discussant: John Heaton (University of Chicago)
4:45-5:45	Narayana Kocherlakota (University of Minnesota): Asset Pricing Implications of Pareto Optimality with Private Information (joint with Luigi Pistaferri - Stanford University)    Discussant: Fernando Alvarez (University of Chicago)
Saturday, October 27, 2007
9:00-10:00	Christopher Sims (Princeton University): Inference with Weak Assumptions: the Asymptotic, Nonparametric, Mirage    Discussant: Eric Renault (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
10:00-10:30	coffee
10:30-11:30	Monika Piazzesi (University of Chicago): Bond Positions, Expectations, And The Yield Curve (joint with Martin Schneider - New York University and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)    Discussant: Kenneth Singleton (Stanford University)
11:30-11:45	break
11:45-12:45	Nir Jaimovich (Stanford University): The Nominal Reference Price Phenomenon (joint with Martin Eichenbaum and Sergio Rebelo - Northwestern University) [Presentation]    Discussant: John Leahy (New York University)
1:00-2:00	lunch
2:00pm	Conference concludes

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