MONDAY, JULY 19:

 

 

 

8:30 am

PRCR

Carol Corrado, The Conference Board

 

 

Peter Goodridge, Office of National Statistics, U.K.

 

 

Jonathan Haskel, Imperial College Business School

 

 

Constructing  a Price Deflator for R&D: Calculating the Price of Knowledge Investment as a Residual

 

 

 

9:00 am

EFACR

Claudia Sahm, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

Matthew Shapiro and Joel Slemrod, University of Michigan and NBER

 

 

Check in the Mail or More in the Paycheck: Does the Effectiveness of Fiscal Stimulus Depend on How It Is Delivered?

 

 

 

9:00 am

POL

Gèrard Roland, UC, Berkeley

 

 

Culture Institutions and the Wealth of Nations

 

 

 

9:45 am

EFACR

Kathleen Johnson, Karen Pence, and Daniel Vine, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

New Vehicle Sales and Credit Supply Shocks: What Happened in 2008?

 

 

 

9:45 am

PRCR

Wendy Li, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

 

Depreciation of Business R&D Capital

 

 

 

10:30 am

POL

Ruben Enikolopov, New Economic School

 

 

Elite Capture of Local Institutions: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Afghanistan

 

 

 

10:45 am

EFACR

Shanjun Li and Chao Wei, George Washington University

 

 

To Scrap or Not to Scrap: A Dynamic Discrete Choice Model of Vehicle Scrappage

 

 

 

11:00 am

PRCR

Panel Discussion:  “Innovation Measurement:  An Update”

 

 

Julia Lane, National Science Foundation, (Moderator)

 

 

Audrey Kindlon , National Science Foundation

 

 

Wesley M. Cohen, Duke University and NBER

 

 

Timothy Sturgeon, MIT

 

 

Nicholas Greenia, Internal Revenue Service/SOI

 

 

 

11:30 am

POL

Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, New Economic School

 

 

Elite Capture in the Absence of Democracy: Evidence from Backgrounds of Chinese Provincial Leaders

 

 

 

11:30 am

EFACR

Jonathan Huntley and Valentina Michelangeli, Congressional Budget Office

 

 

Tax Rebates and Fiscal Multipliers

 

 

 

1:00 pm

PRCR

Susan Houseman, The Upjohn Institute

 

 

Chris Kurz, Paul Lengermann, Benjamin R. Mandel, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

Offshoring Bias:  The Effect of Import Price Mismeasurement on Manufacturing Productivity

 

 

 

1:00 PM

EFEL

Leonid Kogan, MIT and NBER

 

 

Dimitris Papanikolaou, Northwestern University

 

 

Growth Opportunities, Technology Shocks and Asset Prices

 

 

 

1:00 pm

EFRSW

John Kennan, University of Wisconsin and NBER

 

 

Higher Education Subsidies and Human Capital Mobility

 

 

 

1:30 pm

POL

Santiago Oliveros, UC, Berkeley

 

 

Combinatorial Voting

 

 

 

2:00 pm

EFEL

Simon Gilchrist, Boston University and NBER

 

Jae Sim, Federal Reserve Board

 

Egon Zakrajsek, Federal Reserve Board

 

Uncertainty, Financial Frictions, and Investment Dynamics

 

2:00 pm

EFRSW

A. Kerem Cosar, Pennsylvania State University

 

 

Nezih Guner, ICREA, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

 

 

James Tybout, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

 

 

Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy

 

 

 

2:15 pm

PRCR

Ralf Martin, London School of Economics

 

 

Productivity Spreads, Market Power Spreads and Trade

 

 

 

2:30 pm

POL

Paola Conconi, ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles

 

 

Democratic Peace and Electoral Accountability

 

 

 

3:15 pm

EFEL

Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, Carnegie Mellon University

 

 

The Macroeconomics of Credit and Job Destruction

 

3:30 pm

PRCR

Charles R. Hulten, University of Maryland and NBER

 

 

Janet Hao and Kirsten Jaeger, The Conference Board

 

 

Intangible-Intensive Investment: A Macro versus Micro Comparison of Germany and the U.S.

 

 

 

3:30 pm

PRCR

Missaka Warusawitharana, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

Firm Lifecycle Financing

 

 

 

3:30 pm

EFRSW

Aspen Gorry, UC, Santa Cruz

 

 

Minimum Wages and Youth Employment

 

 

 

4:30 pm

EFRSW

Alexander Gelber, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

Joshua Mitchell, Harvard University

 

 

Taxes and Time Allocation: Evidence from Single Women and Men

 

 

 

TUESDAY, JULY 20:

 

 

 

8:30 am

PRCR

Xi Chen, Yale University

 

 

William D. Nordhaus, Yale University and NBER

 

 

The Value of Luminosity Data as a Proxy for Socioeconomic Statistics

 

 

 

9:00 am

EFACR

Jonathan Heathcote, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

 

 

Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

Jose-Victor Rios-Rull, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

 

Are Recessions Good for Young People?

 

 

 

9:30 am

POL

Federico Cingano, Bank of Italy

 

 

Politicians at Work. The Private Returns and Social Costs of Political Connections

 

 

 

9:45 am

EFACR

Kamila Sommer, Georgetown University

 

 

Paul Sullivan and Randal Verbrugge, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

 

 

 

 

Run-Up in the House Price-Rent Ratio: How Much Can Be Explained by Fundamentals?

 

 

 

9:45 am

PRCR

Bruce D. Meyer, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

Robert Goerge, University of Chicago

 

 

The Analysis of Food Stamp Program Participation with Matched Administrative and Survey Data

 

 

 

10:30 am

POL

Claire Lim, Stanford University

 

 

Measuring Media Influence on U.S. State Courts

 

 

 

10:45 am

EFACR

Satyajit Chatterjee, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

 

 

Burcu Eyigungor, Koc University

 

 

Foreclosures and House Price Dynamics: A Quantitative Analysis of the Mortgage Crisis and the Foreclosure Prevention Policy

 

 

 

11:00 am

PRCR

J. Trent Alexander and Michael Davern, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

Betsey Stevenson, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

Inaccurate age and sex data in the Census PUMS files: Evidence and Implications

 

 

 

11:30 am

POL

Ignacio Esponda, New York University

 

 

Information Aggregation  Learning  and Non-Strategic Behavior in Voting Environments

 

 

 

11:30 am

EFACR

Makoto Nakajima, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

 

 

Irina Telyukova, UC, San Diego

 

 

Home Equity Withdrawal in Retirement

 

 

 

1:00 pm

EFEL

Ke Tang, Renmin, University of China

 

 

Wei Xiong, Princeton University and NBER

 

Index Investing and the Financialization of Commodities

 

 

 

1:00 pm

EFRSW

Marcus Hagedorn, University of Zurich

 

 

Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

Measuring the Returns to Tenure and Experience and the Effect of Search Frictions on Wage Dispersion

 

 

 

1:30 pm

PRCR

John Greenlees and Robert McClelland, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

 

Does Quality Adjustment Matter for Technologically Stable Products? An Application to the CPI for Food

 

 

 

1:30 pm

POL

Chris Edmond, New York University

 

 

Information Manipulation, Coordination, and Regime Change

 

 

 

1:30 pm

EFABG

Alexandre Debs, Yale University

 

 

Living by the Sword and Dying by the Sword? Leadership Transitions in and out of Dictatorships

 

 

 

1:50 pm

EFEL

Boris Albul, UC, Berkeley

 

 

Dwight Jaffee, UC, Berkeley

 

 

Alexei Tchistyi, UC, Berkeley

 

 

Contingent Convertible Bonds and Capital Structure Decisions

 

 

 

2:00 pm

EFRSW

Guido Menzio, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

Irina Telyukova, UC, San Diego

 

 

Ludo Visschers, Simon Fraser University

 

 

Directed Search over the Life Cycle

 

 

 

2:30 pm

POL

Peter Murrell, University of Maryland

 

 

Design and Evolution in Institutional Development: The Insignificance of the English Bill of Rights

 

 

 

2:45 pm

EFABG

Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

Rodney Ramcharan, IMF

 

 

The Political Origins of Financial Regulation: The McFadden Act

 

 

 

2:45 pm

PRCR

W. ERWIN DIEWERT, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

 

The Decomposition of a House Price index into Land and Structures Components: A Hedonic Regression Approach

 

 

 

2:55 pm

EFEL

Gianni De Nicolo, IMF

 

 

Marcella Lucchetta, University of Venice

 

 

Systemic Risks and the Marcroeconomy

 

 

 

3:30 pm

EFRSW

Matthew Elliott, Stanford University

 

 

Search with Multilateral Bargaining

 

 

 

3:45 pm

EFEL

Markus K. Brunnermeier, Princeton University and NBER

 

 

Gary Gorton, Yale University and NBER

 

 

Arvind Krishnamurthy, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

Risk Topography

 

 

 

3:45 pm

EFABG

Makoto Nirei, Hitotsubashi University

 

 

Pareto Distributions in Economic Growth Models

 

 

 

4:00 pm

PRCR

Joseph B. Nichols , Stephen D. Oliner and Michael R. Mulhall, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

Commercial and Residential Land Prices Across the United States

 

 

 

4:30 pm

EFRSW

Paul Beaudry, University of Oxford and NBER

 

 

David Green, University of British Columbia

 

 

Ben Sand, University of British Columbia

 

 

How Much is Employment Increased by Cutting Labor Costs?

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 21:

 

 

 

8:30 am

PRBB

Ufuk Akcigit, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

William Kerr, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations

 

 

 

9:00 am

EFACR

Daniel Barth and Stephen Shore, Johns Hopkins University

 

 

Shane Jensen, University of Philadelphia

 

 

Identifying Idiosyncratic Career Taste and Skill with Income Risk

 

 

 

9:00 am

EFABG

Daron Acemoglu, MIT and NBER

 

 

Alexander Wolitzky, MIT

 

 

The Economics of Labor Coercion

 

 

 

9:45 am

EFACR

Rui Castro, University of Montreal

 

 

Daniele Coen-Pirani, Carnegie Mellon University

 

 

Public Policy, Technological Change, and the Evolution of Educational Attainment

9:45 pm

PRBB

Hernan Moscoso Boedo, University of Virginia

 

 

Pablo D’Erasmo, University of Maryland

 

 

Financial Structure, Informality and Development

 

 

 

10:15 am

EFABG

Xin Meng, ANU

 

 

Nancy Qian, Yale University and NBER

 

 

Pierre Yared, Columbia University

 

 

The Institutional Causes of China’s Great Famine - 1959-61

 

 

 

10:45 am

EFACR

Alessandra Voena, Stanford University

 

 

Yours, Mine and Ours: Do Divorce Laws affect the Intertemporal Behavior of Married Couples?

 

 

 

11:00 am

PRBB

Luis Cabral, New York University

 

 

Zhu Wang, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

 

 

Xu Yi, New York University

 

 

Network Effects and Geographic Concentration of Industry

 

 

 

11:30 am

EFACR

Stefania Albanesi, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

Claudia Olivetti, Boston University and NBER

 

 

Maternal Health and the Baby Boom

 

 

 

11:30 am

EFABG

Dominic Rohner, Mathias Thoenig, and

 

 

Fabrizio Zilibotti, University of Zurich

 

 

War Signals: A Theory of Trade, Trust and Conflict

 

1:00 pm

EFEL

Joao Gomes, University of Pennsylvania

 

Lukas Schmid, Duke University

 

Equilibrium Credit Spreads and the Macroeconomy

 

1:00 pm

EFRSW

James Albrecht, Georgetown University

 

 

Fabien Postel-Vinay, University of Bristol

 

 

Susan Vroman, Georgetown University

 

 

An Equilibrium Search Model of Sales

 

 

 

1:15 pm

PRBB

Robert Gordon, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

The Demise of Okun's Law and Procyclical Fluctuations in Conventional and Unconventional Measures of Productivity

 

 

 

1:30 pm

EFABG

Alberto Alesina, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Guido Cozzi, University of Durham

 

 

Noemi Mantovan, University of Glasgow

 

 

The Evolution of Ideology, Fairness and Redistribution

 

 

 

2:00 pm

EFEL

Marco Bassetto, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and NBER

 

 

Marco Cagetti, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

Mariacristina De Nardi, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and NBER

 

 

Credit Crunches and Credit Allocation in a Model of Entrepreneurship

 

2:00 pm

EFRSW

Ronald Wolthoff, University of Chicago

 

 

Applications and Interviews: A Structural Analysis of Two-Sided Simultaneous Search

 

 

 

2:30 pm

PRBB

Timothy Dunne, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

 

 

Shawn Klimek, U.S. Bureau of the Census

 

 

James Schmitz, Jr., Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

 

 

 

 

 

Does Competition Spur Productivity? Evidence From Post WWII U.S. Cement Productivity

 

 

 

2:45 pm

EFABG

Jeffrey Butler, EIEF

 

 

Paola Giuliano, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

 

 

Luigi Guiso, European University Institute

 

 

The Right Amount of Trust

 

 

 

3:15 pm

EFEL

Philip Bond and Itay Goldstein, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

Government Intervention and Information Aggregation by Prices

 

 

 

3:30 pm

EFRSW

Suren Basov, La Trobe University

 

 

Ian King, University of Melbourne

 

 

Lawrence Uren, University of Melbourne

 

 

The Employed, the Unemployed, and the Unemployable: Directed Search with Worker Heterogeneity

 

 

 

3:45 pm

PRBB

Vasco Carvalho, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

 

 

Xavier Gabaix, New York University and NBER

 

 

The Great Diversification and Its Undoing

 

 

 

3:45 pm

EFABG

Pauline Grosjean, UC, Berkeley

 

 

A History of Violence: The Culture of Honor as a Determinant of Homicide in the US South

 

 

 

4:30 pm

EFRSW

Manolis Galenianos, Pennsylvania State University

 

 

Hiring through Referrals

 

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 22:

 

 

 

8:30 am

PRB

Jinyoung Kim, Harvard University

 

 

Gerard R. Marschke, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Teams in R&D: Evidence from Inventor Data

 

 

 

9:00 am

EFACR

Bradley Heim, U.S. Treasury

 

 

Vasia Panousi and Ivan Vidangos, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

Rising Inequality: Transitory or Permanent? New Evidence from a Panel of U.S. Tax Returns 1987-2006

 

 

 

9:00 am

EFABG

Thomas Andersen, Jeanet Bentzen, Carl-Johan Dalgaard and

 

 

Paul Sharp, University of Copenhagen

 

 

Religious Orders and Growth Through Cultural Change in Pre-Industrial England

 

 

 

9:00 am

HF

Wei Jiang, Columbia University

 

 

Ashlyn Nelson, Indiana University

 

 

Edward Vytlacil, Yale University

 

 

Securitization and Loan Performance: A Contrast of Ex Ante and Ex Post Relations in the Mortgage Market

 

 

 

9:30 am

IO

Bart Bronnenberg, Tilburg University

 

 

Matthew Gentzkow and Jean-Pierre Dube, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

The Evolution of Brand Preferences: Evidence from Consumer Migration

 

 

 

9:45 am

EFACR

Mark Aguiar and Mark Bils, University of Rochester and NBER

 

 

Has Consumption Inequality Mirrored Income Inequality?

9:45 am

PRB

Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

Benn Eifert, UC, Berkeley

 

 

Aprajit Mahajan and John Roberts, Stanford University

 

 

David Mckenzie, World Bank

 

 

Does Management Matter? Evidence from India

 

 

 

10:00 am

HF

Arpit Gupta, Edward Morrison, and Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia University

 

 

Christopher Mayer, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

Mortgage Modification and Moral Hazard

 

 

 

10:15 am

EFABG

Graziella Bertocchi, University of Modena

 

 

Arcangelo Dimico, University of Nottingham

 

 

Slavery, Education, and Inequality

 

 

 

10:45 am

IO

James Roberts, Duke University

 

 

Andrew Sweeting, Duke University and NBER

 

 

Entry and Selection in Auctions

 

 

 

10:45 am

EFACR

Christopher Carroll, Johns Hopkins University and NBER

 

 

Kiichi Tokuoka, Johns Hopkins University

 

 

A Benchmark Model of Wealth Inequality in a Buffer Stock/Krusell-Smith World

 

 

 

11:00 am

PRB

Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics

 

 

Luigi Guiso, European University Institute

 

 

Andrea Prat, London School of Economics

 

 

Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University

 

 

Matching Firms, Managers and Incentives

 

 

 

11:15 am

HF

Andreas Fuster, Harvard University

 

 

Paul Willen, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and NBER

 

 

Insuring Consumption Using Income-Linked Assets

 

 

 

11:30 am

EFACR

Marek Kapicka, UC, Santa Barbara

 

 

Paul Klein, Stockholm University

 

 

Testing Competing Models of Consumption Insurance

 

 

 

11:30 am

EFABG

Elias Papaioannou, Dartmouth College

 

 

Stelios Michalopoulos, Tufts University

 

 

“Divide and Rule" or "The Rule of the Divided"?

 

 

Border Design, Pre-Colonial and Contemporary Institutions in African Development

 

 

 

12:00 n

IO

Lunch & Panel (New Developments in Antitrust)

 

Panelists: Joe Farrell, FTC & Carl Shapiro, DOJ

 

 

 

1:00 pm

EFRSW

Robert Shimer, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

Investment Frictions and the Labor Wedge

 

 

 

1:15 pm

PRB

Jeremiah Dittmar, American University

 

 

Information Technology and Economic Change: The Impact of the Printing Press

 

 

 

1:15 pm

HF

Tal Gross, University of Miami

 

 

Matthew Notowidigdo, MIT

 

 

Health Insurance and the Consumer Bankruptcy Decision: Evidence from Medicaid Expansions

 

 

 

1:30 pm

IO

Hunt Allcott, New York University

 

 

Nathan Wozny, Princeton University

 

 

Gasoline Prices, Fuel Economy, and the Energy Paradox

 

 

 

1:30pm

EFABG

Philippe Aghion, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

David Hemous, Harvard University

 

 

Enisse Kharroubi, Bank of France

 

 

Cyclical Fiscal Policy, Credit Constraints, and Industry Growth

 

 

 

2:00 pm

EFRSW

Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, Carnegie Mellon University

 

 

Etienne Wasmer, Science-Po Paris

 

 

The Cyclical Volatility of Labor Markets under Frictional Financial Markets

 

 

 

2:30 pm

PRB

Lynne Zucker and Michael Darby, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

 

 

Movement of Star Scientists and Engineers and High-Tech Firm Entry

 

 

 

2:30 pm

HF

Viktar Fedaseyeu, Boston College

 

 

Debt Collection Agencies and the Supply of Consumer Credit

 

 

 

2:45 pm

IO

Ryan Kellogg, University of Michigan and NBER

 

 

The Effect of Uncertainty on Investment: Evidence from Texas Oil Drilling

 

 

 

2:45 pm

EFABG

Jonathan Heathcote, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

 

Kjetil Storesletten, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

 

Giovanni Violante, New York University and NBER

 

Redistributive Taxation in a Partial-Insurance Economy

 

 

 

3:30 pm

EFRSW

Eran Yashiv, Tel Aviv University

 

 

On The Joint Behavior of Hiring and Investment

 

 

 

3:30 pm

HF

Diane Del Guercio, University of Oregon

 

 

Jonathan Reuter, Boston College and NBER

 

 

Paula Tkac, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

 

 

Demand for Financial Advice, Broker Incentives, and Mutual Fund Market Segmentation

 

 

 

3:45 pm

EFABG

Liam Malloy, University of Maryland

 

 

Loss Aversion, Education, and the Distribution of Income

 

 

 

3:45 pm

PRB

Fumiko Hayashi and Zhu Wang, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

 

 

Product Innovation and Network Survival in the U.S. ATM and Debit Card Industry

 

 

 

4:00 pm

IO

David Matsa, Northwestern University

 

 

Competition and Product Quality in the Supermarket Industry

 

 

 

4:30 pm

EFRSW

Boragan Aruoba, University of Maryland

 

 

Informal Sector, Government Policy and Institutions

FRIDAY, JULY 23:

 

 

 

9:00 am

EFACR

Christos Koulovatianos, University of Nottingham

 

 

Ulrich Schmidt and Carsten Schroder, University of Kiel

 

 

Confronting the Representative Consumer with Household-size Heterogeneity

 

 

 

9:00 am

PEPF

Jinhui Bai, Georgetown University

 

 

Roger Lagunoff, Georgetown University

 

 

Revealed Political Power

9:30 am

IO

Frank Wolak, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

Shaun Mcrae, Stanford University

 

 

How Do Firms Exercise Unilateral Market Power? Evidence from a Bid-Based Wholesale Electricity Market

 

 

 

9:45 am

EFACR

Cristina Barcelo and Ernesto Villanueva, Bank of Spain

 

 

The Response of Household Wealth to the Risk of Losing the Job: Evidence from Differences in Firing Costs

 

 

 

9:50 am

PEPF

Ruediger Bachmann, University of Michigan and NBER

 

 

Jinhui Bai, Georgetown University

 

 

Government Purchases Over the Business Cycle: the Role of

 

 

Heterogeneity and Wealth Bias in Political Decision Making

 

 

 

10:45 am

EFACR

Marcos Chamon, IMF

 

 

Kai Liu, Johns Hopkins University

 

 

Eswar Prasad, Cornell University and NBER

 

 

Income Uncertainty and Household Savings in China

 

 

 

10:45 am

IO

Adam Copeland and Adam Hale Shapiro, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

 

The Impact of Competition on Technology Adoption: An Apples-to-PCs Analysis

 

 

 

11:10 am

PEPF

Alessandra Bonfiglioli, IAE-CSIC

 

 

Gino Gancia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

 

 

Politicians, Uncertainty and Reforms

 

 

 

11:30 am

EFACR

Stephane Pallage, University of Quebec

 

 

Christian Zimmermann, University of Connecticut

 

 

Unemployment Benefits vs. Unemployment Accounts: A Quantitative Exploration

 

 

 

12:00 n

IO

Lunch & Panel (IT and Economics on the Internet)

 

 

Panelists: Eric Brill, eBay & Rich Miner, Google

 

Joint Session with Productivity and IT Group

 

 

 

12:30 pm

PRIT

Panel: IT and Economics on the Internet

 

 

Eric Brill, eBay

 

 

Rich Miner, Google

 

 

Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM and MIT

 

 

 

1:00 pm

EFRSW

Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University

 

 

Ivan Werning, MIT and NBER

 

 

Insurance and Taxation over the Life Cycle

 

 

 

1:00 pm

PEPF

Allan Drazen, University of  Maryland and NBER

 

 

Ethan Ilzetzki, London School of Economics

 

 

Kosher Pork

 

 

 

1:40 pm

PRIT

Sinan Aral, New York University

 

 

Dylan Walker, New York University

 

 

Creating Social Contagion through Viral Product Design: A Randomized Trial of Peer Influence in Networks

 

 

 

1:50 pm

PEPF

Alberto Alesina, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Francesco Passarelli, Bocconi University

 

 

Regulation versus Taxation

2:00 pm

EFRSW

Leo Kaas, University of Konstanz

 

 

Philipp Kircher, University of Oxford

 

 

Efficient Firm Dynamics in a Frictional Labor Market

 

 

 

2:50 pm

PRIT

Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto

 

 

Catherine Tucker, MIT

 

 

Privacy Regulation and Online Advertising

 

 

 

3:00 pm

EFRSW

Ija Trapeznikova, Northwestern University

 

 

Employment Adjustment and Labor Utilization

 

 

 

3:30 pm

PEPF

Renee Bowen, Stanford University

 

 

Limits of the WTO as a Self-Enforcing Institution

 

 

 

3:50 pm

PEPF

Tommaso Nannicini, Bocconi University

 

 

Fernanda Brollo, Bocconi University

 

 

Tying Your Enemy’s Hands in Close Races: The Politics of Federal Transfers in Brazil

 

 

 

4:10

PRIT

Anindya Ghose, New York University

 

 

Panos Ipeirotis, New York University

 

 

Beibei Li, New York University

 

 

Estimating Demand in the Hotel Industry by Mining User-Generated and Crowdsourced Content

 

 

 

SATURDAY, JULY 24:

 

 

 

9:00 am

SAV

Dean Karlan, Yale University and NBER

 

 

Margaret McConnell, Harvard School of Public Health

 

 

Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College

 

 

Getting to the Top of Mind: How Reminders Increase Savings

 

 

 

9:00 am

PRIT

Rahul Telang, Carnegie-Mellon University

 

 

Rodrigo Belo, IST – Technical University of Lisbon

 

 

Pedro Ferriera, Carnegie Mellon University

 

 

The Effects of Broadband in Schools: Evidence from Portugal

 

 

 

10:00 am

SAV

Mark Aguiar, University of Rochester and NBER

 

 

Mark Bils, University of Rochester and NBER

 

 

Has Consumption Inequality Mirrored Income Inequality?

 

 

 

10:10 am

PRIT

Prasanna Tambe, New York University

 

 

Lorin Hitt, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

Job Hopping, Knowledge Spillovers, and Regional Returns to Information Technology Investments

 

 

 

11:20 am

PRIT

Jacob Goldenberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

 

Gal Oestreicher-Singer, Tel Aviv University

 

 

Schachar Reichman, Tel Aviv University

 

 

The Quest for Content: The Integration of Product Networks and Social Networks in Online Content Exploration

 

 

 

 

 

 

11:30 am

SAV

Thomas Crossley, Cambridge University

 

 

Kevin Milligan, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

 

Micro and Macro Based Saving Rates – What Explains the Differences?

 

 

 

12:30 pm

SAV

Claudia Biancotti and Michael Ehrmann, European Central Bank

 

 

The Euro Area Household Finance and Consumption Survey

 

 

 

1:45 pm

SAV

John Sabelhaus, University of Maryland

 

 

Jae Song, Social Security Administration

 

 

The Great Moderation in Micro Labor Earnings

 

 

 

3:00 pm

SAV

Robert Townsend, MIT and NBER

 

 

Saving and Risk in Developing Countries: Theory and Evidence