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 main objective of the meeting is to provide a platform for productive exchanges of scholars working on economic and social inequality. Both contributions from theoretical analysis and empirical research are welcome. In addition the colloquium will discuss policy issues theoretical and policy...