Economic Fluctuations and growth research meeting.

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

The NBER's Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth met at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on February 3, 2012. NBER Research Associates Nir Jaimovich of Duke University and Guido Lorenzoni of MIT organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Gary B. Gorton, Yale University and NBER, and Guillermo Ordonez, Yale University, "Collateral Crises" (NBER Working Paper No. 17771)

* Elias Albagli, University of Southern California; Christian Hellwig, Toulouse School of Economics; and Aleh Tsyvinski, Yale University and NBER, "A Theory of Asset Prices based on Heterogeneous Information" (NBER Working Paper No. 17548)

* Francisco Buera, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER; Joseph Kaboski, University of Notre Dame and NBER; and Yongseok Shin, Washington University in St. Louis, "The Macroeconomics of Microfinance"

* Cosmin...