Twenty-fourth Annual Conference on Macroeconomics.

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The NBER's Twenty-fourth Annual Conference on Macroeconomics, organizer by Research Associates Daron Acemoglu of MIT, Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard University, and Michael Woodford of Columbia University, took place in Cambridge on April 10 and 11. These papers were discussed:

* John Geanakoplos, Yale University, "The Leverage Cycle"

* Christopher Foote and Lorenz Goette, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; Kristopher Gerardi, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and Paul Willen, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and NBER, "Reducing Foreclosures"

* Effi Benmelech, Harvard University and NBER, and Jennifer Dlugosz, Harvard University, "The Credit Rating Crisis"

* Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota and NBER, and Burhanettin Kuruscu, University of...