Details
When: Friday, April 25, 2025
Where: Kellogg Global Hub, 2211 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL Room 1410
Program: Please see the final program below or download a PDF version here.
Conference in Honor of Bob Gordon
About the Event
Contact
If you have any questions, please email mariya.acherkan@northwestern.edu.Preliminary Schedule
Friday, April 25
8:30-9:00 Breakfast – outside of room 1410
9:00-9:05 Welcome: Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern)
Session 1:
Chair: Joel Mokyr
9:05-9:45 Valerie Ramey (UCSD), joint with Shigeru Fujita (Philadelphia Fed) and Tal Roded (MIT FutureTech), “Why Didn’t the U.S. Unemployment Rate Rise at the end of WWII?”
9:45-9:55 Discussion
9:55-10:10 Coffee Break
Session 2:
Chair: Joel Mokyr
10:10-10:50 Alexander Field (Santa Clara), “The World War II U.S. Rubber Famine”
10:50-11:00 Discussion
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
Session 3:
Chair: Joel Mokyr
11:15-11:55 Mark Watson (Princeton), “Recovering From COVID”
11:55-12:05 Discussion
12:05-1:15 Lunch
Session 4:
Chair: Martin Eichenbaum
1:15-1:55 Joel Mokyr (Northwestern), “Bob Gordon: Economic Historian”
1:55-2:05 Discussion
2:05-2:45 Peter Klenow (Stanford) joint with Timo Boppart (IIES), Huiyu Li (San Francisco Fed) and Reiko Laski (Stanford), “Idea Rents and Firm Growth”
2:45-2:55 Discussion
2:55-3:10 Break
Session 5:
Chair: Martin Eichenbaum
3:10-3:50 Barry Eichengreen (Berkeley), “Another Great Wave”
3:50-4:00 Discussion
4:00-4:10 Break
Session 6:
Chair: Martin Eichenbaum
4:10-4:50 Gauti Eggertsson (Brown), “Mr. Keynes and the Classics: A Suggested Reconciliation”
4:50-5:00 Discussion
7:00-9:00 Dinner (by invitation only) at Oceanique, 505 Main St, Evanston
Remarks by Alan Blinder (Princeton), Ben Friedman (Harvard), and Jim Poterba (MIT, NBER)