Each year, the Society for Economic Dynamics organizes two sessions at the 
Allied Social Sciences Association meeting. The next meeting is held in 
Chicago, January 5-7, 2007. The following sessions are on the program:

     * The Great Depression and Beyond: Lessons for Macroeconomics
       Date: Jan 5; Time: 10:15am; Location: TBA
       Presiding: GIORGIO PRIMICERI, Northwestern University

HAROLD COLE, University of Pennsylvania, and LEE OHANIAN, 
University of California-Los Angeles--Who or What Started the Great 
Depression?

GAUTI EGGERTSSON, Federal Reserve Bank of New York--The New 
Deal as a Theory of the Optimal Second Best

MICHAEL BORDO, Rutgers University, CHRISTOPHER ERCEG, ANDREW 
LEVIN, Federal Reserve Board, and RYAN MICHAELS, University of 
Michigan--Three Great American Disinflations



     * Recent Advances in Optimal Dynamic Taxation
       Date: Jan 7; Time: 8am; Location: TBA
       Presiding: IVAN WERNING, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DARON ACEMOGLU, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and 
MICHAEL GOLOSOV, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and ALEH 
TSYVINSKI, Harvard University--Markets Versus Governments, Political 
Economy of Mechanisms

STEFANIA ALBANESI, Columbia University--Optimal Taxation of 
Entrepreneurial Capital with Private Information

NARAYANA KOCHERLAKOTA, University of Minnesota and Federal 
Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and CHRISTOPHER PHELAN, Federal Reserve Bank 
of Minneapolis--Robust Taxation in the Atkeson-Lucas Model

IVAN WERNING and EMMANUEL FARHI, Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology--Capital Taxation: Quantitative Explorations