## Conference in Honor of Tom Sargent's Nobel Prize in Economics **Thomas Sargent awarded Noble Prize in Economics**[2 American Professors Awarded Nobel in Economic Science](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/business/american-economists-share-nobel-prize.html) \- The New York Times [NYU’s Sargent, Princeton’s Sims Win Nobel Prize in Economics](http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-10/nyu-s-sargent-princeton-s-sims-win-nobel-prize-in-economics.html) \- Bloomberg Businessweek --- **Conference Agenda** **Friday October 14th***12:45 pm - 01:00 pm* Welcome desk at NYU Stern, lobby *01:00 pm - 01:10 pm* Opening Remarks by Thomas Cooley, NYU Stern *01:10 pm - 01:30 pm* Reading group reunion Tom will randomly call on 4 students to give a 5-minute presentation of a paper they read last week **Session 1 - Chaired by Robert Townsend** *01:30 pm - 2:00 pm* Andrew Atkeson, U.C.L.A. (Stanford 1988) [Money, Interest Rates, Excess Reserves, and Inflation](?) [Slides](http://blogs.nyu.edu/blogs/jr197/base/Atkeson.pdf) *02:00 pm - 02:30 pm* Ricardo Colacito, U.N.C. Chapel Hill (NYU 2006) [International Asset Pricing with Risk-Sensitive Agents](http://www.unc.edu/~colacitr/Research/ColacitoCroce4Sargent.pdf) With Max Croce (UNC Chapel Hill, NYU 2007) [Slides](https://files.nyu.edu/jr197/colacito.pdf) *02:30 pm - 03:00 pm* Marco Bassetto, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Chicago 1998) [More Perils of Taylor Rules](?) With Chris Phelan (University of Minnesota) [Slides](http://www.nber.org/~bassetto/research/interestruns/slides.pdf) *03:00 pm - 03:30 pm* Coffee break in the Gardner Commons, Room 1-100, NYU Stern **Session 2 - Chaired by Lars Hansen** *03:30 pm - 04:00 pm* Greg Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania (NYU 2009) [A Model of the Consumption Response to Fiscal Stimulus Payments](http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~gkaplan/Greg_Kaplan/Research_files/kv_rebate_nberwp.pdf) With Gianluca Violante (NYU) [Slides](https://files.nyu.edu/jr197/kaplan.pdf) *04:00 pm - 04:30 pm* Hanno Lustig, U.C.L.A. Anderson (Stanford 2002) [Too Systemic To Fail](http://ssrn.com/abstract=1762312) With Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh (NYU Stern, Stanford 2003), and Bryan Kelly (University of Chicago Booth) *04:30 pm - 05:00 pm* Ellen McGrattan, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Stanford 1989) [Capital Taxation During the Great Depression](http://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/sr/sr451.pdf) [Slides](https://files.nyu.edu/jr197/mcgrattan.pdf) **Party Program** *05:15 pm - 06:15 pm* Cocktail Reception *06:15 pm - 09:00 pm* Dinner *09:00 pm* - Beers at [Amity Hall](http://amityhallnyc.com/) **Saturday October 15th** *09:30 am - 10:00 am* Breakfast **Session 3 - Chaired by Neil Wallace** *10:00 am - 10:30 am* Rodolfo Manuelli, Washington University in St. Louis (Minnesota 1986) [Policy Instability, Technology Choice and Productivity](?) With Yongs Shin [Slides](http://blogs.nyu.edu/blogs/jr197/base/RegimeChangeTomNobelParty.pdf) *10:30 am - 11:00 am* Christopher Tonetti, New York University (NYU, 2013) [Endogenous Risk and Growth](http://www.christophertonetti.com/files/papers/EndogenousRiskandGrowth.pdf) With Jesse Perla (current Sargent student) [Slides](https://files.nyu.edu/jr197/Tonetti.pdf) *11:00 am - 11:30 am* Coffee Break *11:30 am - 12:00 pm* Demian Pouzo, U.C. Berkeley (NYU 2009) [Sovereign Default Risk and Uncertainty Premia](http://emlab.berkeley.edu/~dpouzo/pdfs/pp-webpage-jan-11.pdf) With Ignacio Presno (current Sargent student) *12:00 pm - 12:30 pm* George Hall, Brandeis University (Chicago 1996) [Fiscal Ambiguity During the Post-Civil War Period](?) With Thomas Sargent (NYU) [Slides](https://files.nyu.edu/jr197/Hall.pdf) **Location**The conference, which is invitation only, will be held at the Kaufman Management Center, 44 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012. [Stern Map](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/about/visit-stern/index.htm) for further location and travel information **Attendees** [Attendee List](http://blogs.nyu.edu/blogs/jr197/base/Attendee%20List.pdf) **Sponsors**- Center for Global Economy and Business - CV Starr Center - Stern Economics - FAS Economics **Conference Organizers**- Ricardo Lagos - Stijn van Nieuwerburgh - Laura Veldkamp - Gianluca Violante ![Cooley](/sites/default/files/assets/images/con_032028.jpg) Thomas Cooley speaks at Conference in honor of Thomas Sargent ![SargentConf](/sites/default/files/assets/images/con_032029.jpg) ![SargentConf2](/sites/default/files/assets/images/con_032032.jpg) ![SargentConf3](/sites/default/files/assets/images/con_032033.jpg) For further information and conference videos [See Here](https://docs.google.com/a/stern.nyu.edu/document/d/1EHNzJB0huutxbqFhxuc83HFYSdlZcKDLNMWwr3h7aDw/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1#) ![tsargent.jpg](http://blogs.nyu.edu/blogs/jr197/base/tsargent.jpg) [Thomas J. Sargent](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/thomas-sargent), a macroeconomist, joined New York University as the first W.R. Berkley Professor in September 2002, a joint appointment by the Economics Department at NYU's Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Stern School of Business...Read Thomas Sargent's[ full bio](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/thomas-sargent)