Economic Fluctuations and Growth.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

Members of the NBER's Economic Fluctuations and Growth Program met February 25 in Cambridge and online. Research Associate Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan of the University of Maryland and Faculty Research Fellow Ezra Oberfield of Princeton University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Ian Dew-Becker and Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi, Northwestern University, and Andrea Vedolin, Boston University and NBER, "Skewness and Time-Varying Second Moments in a Nonlinear Production Network: Theory and Evidence" (NBER Working Paper 29499)

* Joonkyu Choi, Federal Reserve Board; Veronika Penciakova, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta; and Felipe Saffie, University of Virginia, "Political Connections, Allocation of Stimulus Spending, and the Jobs Multiplier"

* George-Marios Angeletos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER, and Chen Lian, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, "Determinacy without the Taylor Principle" (NBER Working Paper 28881)

* Pablo Ottonello, University of Michigan and NBER; Diego J. Perez, New York University and NBER; and Paolo Varraso, New York University...