2009 Macro Asset Pricing Conference

Conference Participants

Santiago Bazdresch

"Labor Hiring, Investment and Stock Return Predictability in the Cross Section"

Discussant: Ellen McGrattan, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Lars Hansen

"Fragile Beliefs and the Price of Model Uncertainty"

Discussant: Bryan Routledge

Ravi Jagannathan

"CAPM for Estimating the Cost of Equity Capital: Interpreting the Empirical Evidence"

Discussant: Jianfeng Yu, University of Minnesota

Narayana Kocherlakota

"Bursting Bubbles: Consequences and Cures"

Discussant: Doriana Ruffino, University of Minnesota

Hanno Lustig

"A Multiplier Approach to Understanding the Macro Implications of Household Finance"

Discussant: Santiago Bazdresch, University of Minnesota

Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

"The Cross Section and Time-Series of Stock and Bond Returns"

Discussant: Greg Duffee

Stavros Panageas

"The Demographics of Innovation and Asset Returns"

Discussant: Frederico Belo, University of Minnesota

Ed Prescott

"Intermediated Quantities and Returns"

Discussant: John Boyd, University of Minnesota

Amir Yaron

"Sources of Lifetime Inequality"

Discussant: Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota

Jianfeng Yu

"The Long and Short of Asset Prices: Using Long Run Consumption-Return Correlations to Test Asset Pricing Models"

Discussant: Lu Zhang, University of Michigan