Economic Fluctuations and Growth.

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

The NBER's Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth met in Chicago on October 21. Research Associates Steven J. Davis of the University of Chicago and Guido Menzio of the University of Pennsylvania organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Xavier Gabaix, Harvard University and NBER, "A Behavioral New Keynesian Model"

* Alessandro Gavazza, London School of Economics; Simon Mongey, New York University; and Giovanni Violante, New York University and NBER, "Aggregate Recruiting Intensity" (NBER Working Paper No. 22677)

* Francois Geerolf, University of California, Los Angeles, "A Theory of Pareto Distributions"

* Neil Mehrotra, Brown University, and...