Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth met at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on February 8, 2013. Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University, and Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Zhen Huo, University of Minnesota, and Jose-Victor Rios-Rull, University of Minnesota and NBER, "Engineering a Paradox of Thrift Recession"

* Simeon Alder, University of Notre Dame; David Lagakos, Arizona State University; and Lee Ohanian, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER, "The Decline of the U.S. Rust Belt: A Macroeconomic Analysis"

* Raj Chetty and John Friedman, Harvard University and NBER; Soren Leth-Petersen, University of Copenhagen; Torben Nielsen, The Danish National Center for Social Research; and Tore Olsen, Harvard University, "Active vs. Passive Decisions and Crowdout in Retirement Savings Accounts: Evidence from Denmark" (NBER Working...