Economic Fluctuations and Growth.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - NBER Reporter - Conference news - Brief article

NBER's Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth met at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on February 13. NBER Research Associates Peter J. Klenow of Stanford University and Valerie A. Ramey, University of California, San Diego, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Francisco J. Buera, NBER and University of California, Los Angeles; Joseph P. Kaboski, Ohio State University; and Youngseok Shin, Washington University in St. Louis, "Finance and Development: A Tale of Two Sectors"

* Diego Comin, NBER and Harvard University; Mark Gertler, NBER and New York University; and Aria Maria Santacreu, New York University, "Technology Innovation and Diffusion as Sources of Output and Asset Price Fluctuations"

* Glenn D. Rudebusch and Eric T. Swanson, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, "The Bond Premium in a DSGE Model with Long-Run Real and Nominal Risks"

* Eric M. Leeper...