Program for Vienna Macroeconomics Workshop 2012: 1. Why Rent When You Can Buy? A Theory of Securities Lending Repurchase Agreements 2. Can Contraception Account for the Decline of Marriage? 3. A Model with Spillovers in the Adaptation of Renewable Technologies 4. Nature and Nurture in the...

Theoretical and empirical papers from all areas of macroeconomics are welcome. Examples of topics of interest include economic growth and business cycles; asset pricing within a general equilibrium context; dynamics of the income distribution; labor market dynamics; international macroeconomics;...

The topics of the workshop will include, but are not limited to, the theory and numerical methods of optimal control, differential games, bifurcation theory, and a broad spectrum of applications involving dynamic economic models (including heterogeneous/distributed ones), dynamic models in...