Chicago-Minnesota student conference, April 16, 2009

More information also available at the Economics and finance joint program webpage.

Dinner

The dinner for conference participants is on April 15, 7pm, in Blackbird Restaurant [map]. You have received an invitation by email.

Schedule

Venue: Chicago Booth Harper Center, room C25

Lunch and coffee all day will be provided to the registered participants.

8:45-9:20 Alan Moreira (Chicago)
Private business income: Welfare costs of under diversification and the role of borrowing constraints [paper] [slides]
9:20-9:35 Discussant: Kevin Wiseman (Minnesota)
9:35-9:50 General discussion
 
10:00-10:35 Ctirad Slavík (Minnesota)
Tough love for lazy kids (with Kevin Wiseman) [paper] [slides]
10:35-10:50 Discussant: Ben Pugsley (Chicago) [slides]
10:50-11:05 General discussion
 
11:15-11:50 Jaroslav Borovička (Chicago)
Heterogeneous beliefs under recursive preferences [paper] [slides]
11:50-12:05 Discussant: Yuichiro Waki (Minnesota) [slides]
12:05-12:20 General discussion
 
12:20-1:15pm lunch
 
1:15-1:50 Kenichi Fukushima (Minnesota)
Computing dynamic optimal mechanisms when private shocks are persistent (with Yuichiro Waki) [paper] [slides]
1:50-2:05 Discussant: Mariano Lanfranconi (Chicago) [slides]
2:05-2:20 General discussion
 
2:30-3:05 Nina Boyarchenko (Chicago)
Ambiguity, Information Quality and Credit Risk [paper] [slides]
3:05-3:20 Discussant: Ariel Zetlin-Jones (Minnesota) [slides]
3:20-3:35 General discussion
 
3:45-4:20 Ali Shourideh (Minnesota)
Moral Hazard, Reputation, and Fragility in Credit Markets (with V.V. Chari and Ariel Zeitlin-Jones) [paper] [slides]
4:20-4:35 Discussant: Jonathan Hall (Chicago) [slides]
4:35-4:50 General discussion