October 14–15, 2005
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
| Friday, October 14, 2005 | |
| Moderator: Zvi Eckstein | |
| 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. | Petra Todd and Kenneth I. Wolpin “The Production of Cognitive Achievement in Children: Home, School and Racial Test Score Gaps” [955K PDF] |
| Discussant: Mike Keane | |
| 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. | Meta Brown and Christopher Flinn “Investment in Child Quality over Marital States” [424K PDF] |
| Discussant: Hanming Fang | |
| 4:00 – 4:15 p.m. | Break |
| 4:15 – 5:45 p.m. | Andrew Sweeting “Coordination Games, Multiple Equilibria, and the Timing of Radio” [632K PDF] |
| Discussant: Liran Einav | |
| 5:45 – 6:45 p.m. | Cocktail Hour |
| 7:00– 9:00 p.m | Dinner |
| Special Talk: Ed Prescott “Micro Based Aggregate Productivity Theory: Current State and Future Directions” |
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| Saturday, October 15, 2005 |
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| 8:00 – 8:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
| Moderator: Jim Schmitz | |
| 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. | Patrick Bayer, Hanming Fang, and Robert McMillan “Separate When Equal? Racial Inequality and Residential Segregation” [1,300K PDF] (In presentation include some of the paper: Residential Segregation in General Equilibrium”) |
| Discussant: Derek Neal | |
| 10:00 – 10:15 a.m. | Break |
| 10:15 – 11:45 a.m. | Dennis Epple, Michael Peressa, and Holger Sieg “Identification and Semiparametric Estimation of Equilibrium Models of Local Jurisdictions” [316K PDF] |
| Discussant: Antonio Merlo | |
| 11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. | Patrick Bajari, Han Hong, John Krainer, andDenis Nekipelov “Estimating Static Models of Strategic Interaction” [377K PDF] |
| Discussant: Phil Haile | |
| Refreshments Available | |
| 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. | Thomas Holmes “The Diffusion of Wal-Mart and Economies of Density” [590K PDF] |
| Discussant: Gautam Gowrisankaran | |
| 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. | Jonathan Eaton, Sam Kortum, and Francis Kramarz “An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence from French Firms” [553K PDF] |
| Discussant: Timothy Kehoe | |