Twenty-ninth macroeconomics annual conference.

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The NBER's Twenty-Ninth Macroeconomics Annual Conference, organized by Research Associates Jonathan Parker of MIT and Michael Woodford of Columbia University, took place in Cambridge on April 11 and 12, 2014. They selected these papers to discuss:

* Robert Hall, Stanford University and NBER, "Quantifying the Lasting Harm to the U.S. Economy from the Financial Crisis"

* Christopher Foote, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and Rich Ryan, University of Michigan, "Labor Market Polarization over the Business Cycle"

* Hess Chung, Edward Herbst, and Michael Kiley, Federal Reserve Board, "Effective Monetary Policy Strategies in New-Keynesian Models: A Re-Examination"

* John Fernald, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, "Productivity and Potential Output...