Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research meeting.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Conference notes - Brief article

The NBER's Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth met in New York on October 26, 2012. NBER Research Associates Paul Beaudry, University of British Columbia, and John Leahy, New York University, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Chang-Tai Hsieh and Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER, and Charles Jones and Peter Klenow, Stanford University and NBER, "The Allocation of Talent and U.S. Economic Growth"

* Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota and NBER; Serdar Ozkan, Federal Reserve Board; and Jae Song, Social Security Administration, "The Nature of Countercyclical Income Risk" (NBER Working Paper No. 18035)

* Loukas Karabarbounis and Brent Neiman, University of Chicago and NBER, "Declining Labor Shares and the Global Rise of Corporate Savings" (NBER Working Paper No. 18154)

* Stephanie...