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 |