Twenty-seventh annual conference on macroeconomics.

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The NBER's Twenty-seventh Annual Conference on Macroeconomics, organized by Research Associates Daron Acemoglu of MIT, Jonathan Parker or Northwestern University, and Michael Woodford of Columbia University, took place in Cambridge on April 20 and 21. These papers were discussed:

* Tobias Adrian, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Paolo Colla, Universita Bocconi; and Hyun Song Shin, Princeton University and NBER, "Which Financial Frictions? Parsing the Evidence from the Financial Crisis of 2007-9"

* Timothy J. Besley, London School of Economics; Neil Meads, Bank of England; and Paolo Surico, London Business School, "Risk Heterogeneity and Credit Supply: Evidence from the Mortgage Market"

* Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER, Adam Guren, Harvard University; Day Manoli, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER; and Andrea Weber, University of Mannheim, "Does Indivisible Labor Explain The Difference Between Micro And Macro Elasticities? A Meta-Analysis of...