Conference in Honor of Robert E. Lucas Jr.
October
7-8
2016

Event Recap
Nobel laureate Robert E. Lucas will be awarded the University of Chicago’s rare and prestigious Division of Social Science Phoenix Prize in recognition of his influential contributions to changing the field of economics.
To commemorate this award, the Becker Friedman Institute, the Department of Economics, and the Division of the Social Sciences are hosting a conference in his honor at the University of Chicago. Distinguished colleagues and coauthors will participate in this research conference exploring the impact of Lucas’s work.
Agenda
Friday, October 7, 2016
On the Optimality of Financial Repression
V.V. Chari, University of Minnesota
Discussant: Jean Pierre Danthine
Monetary Policy According to HANK
Benjamin Moll, London School of Economics, Princeton University
Discussant: Lee Ohanian
Commuting, Migration, and Local Employment Elasticities
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Princeton University
Discussant: Marcel Boyer
Luncheon Talk
Neil Wallace, Pennsylvania State University
Reputation and Product Recalls
Boyan Jovanovic, New York University
Discussant: Christopher Phelan
Random Risk Aversion and Liquidity: a Model of Asset Pricing and Trade Volumes

Andrew Atkeson, Stanley M. Zimmerman Professor of Economics and Finance, University of California, Los Angeles
John H. Cochrane, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution at Stanford University
Saturday, October 8, 2016
Technology, Skill, and Long-Run Growth
Nancy Stokey, The Frederick Henry Prince Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics

José A. Scheinkman, Edwin W. Rickert Professor of Economics, Columbia University
Social Insurance, Information Revelation, and Lack of Commitment
Mikhail Golosov, The Homer J. Livingston Professor in Economics and the College, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics
Juan Pablo Nicolini, Senior Research Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
The Global Diffusion of Ideas
Video
Francisco Buera, University of California, Berkeley; Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Luncheon Talk
Edward S. Prescott, Arizona State University
More on the Taxation of Capital Income
Pedro Teles, Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Discussant: Iván Werning