| Research Department Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis April 29-30, 1994 |
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| Friday, April 29 | |
| 3:45 p.m. | Welcome and opening remarks: Art Rolnick |
| 4:00 p.m. | Andy Atkeson and Patrick Kehoe “Social Insurance and Transition” Discussant: V. V. Chari |
| 5:00 p.m. | Break |
| 5:15 p.m. | Ellen McGrattan, Richard Rogerson, and Randall Wright “Household Production and Taxation in the Stochastic Growth Model” Discussant: Larry Christiano |
| 6:30 p.m. | Cocktail reception |
| 7:30 p.m. | Dinner |
| Saturday, April 30 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | Continental breakfast |
| 10:00 a.m. | Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas Sargent “Welfare States and Unemployment” Discussant: Ken Burdett |
| 11:00 a.m. | Break |
| 11:15 a.m. | Daron Acemoglu “Search in the Labor Market, Incomplete Contracts and Growth” Discussant: Per Krusell |
| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:30 p.m. | Raquel Fernandez and Richard Rogerson “Public Education and the Dynamics of Income Distribution: A Quantitative Evaluation of Education Finance Reform” Discussant: Michael Kremer |
| 2:30 p.m. | Break |
| 2:45 p.m. | Andrew Caplin and John Leahy “Mass Layoffs and Unemployment” Discussant: Dale Mortensen |
| 3:45 p.m. | Shouyong Shi and Quan Wen “Unemployment and the Dynamic Effects of Factor Taxes and Subsidies” Discussant: Toni Braun |
| 4:45 p.m. | Closing remarks |