Conference programme: - Childless Aristocrats. Inheritance and the extensive margin of fertility; - Electricity and Firm Productivity: A General-Equilibrium Approach; - Can Redistribution Lead to Economic Development?

The widespread use of dollars for invoicing international trade and pricing internationally traded goods and services has sharp implications for (i) the transmission of business cycle shocks, be they regional or global, and (ii) the conduct of stabilization policies. Much of the recent open...