Economic fluctuations and growth research meeting.

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

The NBER's Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth met in Cambridge on July 14, 2012. NBER Research Associates Varadarajan Chari, University of Minnesota, and Xavier Gabaix, New York University's Stern School of Business, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Alessandra Fogli, University of Minnesota, and Laura Veldkamp, New York University and NBER, "Germs, Social Networks, and Growth"

* Ali Shourideh, University of Pennsylvania, "Optimal Taxation of Capital Income: A Mirrleesian Approach to Capital Accumulation"

* Atif Mian, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, and Amir Sufi, University of Chicago Booth School of Business and NBER, "What Explains High Unemployment? The Aggregate Demand Channel" (NBER Working Paper No. 17830)

* Arvind Krishnamurthy, Northwestern University and NBER, and Zhiguo He, University of Chicago and NBER, "A...