Asset Pricing Program meeting.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on Asset Pricing met at the University of Chicago's Booth School on April 29, 2011. NBER Research Associates Arvind Krishnamurthy and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, both of Northwestern University, organized the meeting and chose these papers to discuss:

* Anna Cieslak, Northwestern University, and Pavol Povala, University of Lugano, "Understanding Bond Risk Premia"

* Matthias Fleckenstein, Francis A. LongstafF, and Hanno Lustig, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER, "Why Does the Treasury Issue TIPS ? The TIPS-Treasury Bond Puzzle" (NBER Working Paper No. 16358)

* Michael Johannes, Lars Lochstoer, and Yiqun Mou, Columbia University, "Learning About Consumption Dynamics"

* Xing Hu, Princeton University, and Jun Pan and Jiang Wang, MIT and NBER, "Noise" (NBER...