Economic Fluctuations and Growth subgroup.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meeting

Members of the NBER's Economic Fluctuations and Growth program's subgroup on growth met February 28 in San Francisco. Marti Mestieri of Northwestern University and Faculty Research Fellow Christopher Tonetti of Stanford University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Matthew J. Delventhal, Claremont McKenna College; Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania and NBER; and Nezih Guner, Center for Monetary and Financial Studies, "Demographic Transitions across Time and Space"

* Sebastian Heise, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Tommaso Porzio, University of California, San Diego, "Workers' Home Bias and Spatial Wage Gaps: Lessons from the Enduring Divide between East and West Germany"

* Wyatt Brooks and Terence R. Johnson, University of Notre Dame, and Kevin Donovan, Yale University, "Bringing Data to the Model: Quantitative Implications of an Equilibrium Diffusion Model"

* Victor Couture, University of California, Berkeley; Cecile Gaubert, University of California, Berkeley and NBER...