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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SI 2012 Macro Perspectives

 

Richard Rogerson, Robert Shimer, and Randall Wright, Organizers

 

July 16-20, 2012

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Charles A

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, MA

 

PROGRAM

 

Monday, July 16:


12:00 n


Lunch


1:00 pm


Robert E. Hall, Stanford University and NBER
Viewing Job-Seekers' Reservation Wages and Acceptance Decisions through the Lens of Search Theory


2:00 pm


Lee E. Ohanian, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
Kyle F. Herkenhoff, UCLA
Foreclosure Delay and U.S. Unemployment


3:00 pm


Break


3:30 pm


David Berger, Yale University
Countercyclical Restructuring and Jobless Recoveries


4:30 pm


Shigeru Fujita, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University and NBER
Recall and Unemployment


5:30 pm


Adjourn

Tuesday, July 17:


12:00 n


Lunch


1:00 pm


Randall Wright, University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER
Home Production and the Production of Homes


2:00 pm


Marcus Hagedorn, University of Zurich
Tzuo Hann Law, University of Pennsylvania
Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Identifying Sorting


3:00 pm


Break


3:30 pm


Zvika Neeman, Tel Aviv University
Andrew Newman, Boston University
Claudia Olivetti, Boston University and NBER
Are Career Women Good for Marriage?


4:30 pm


Guido Menzio, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Greg Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
The Unemployment Multiplier


5:30 pm


Adjourn


Wednesday, July 18:


12:00 n


Lunch


1:00 pm


Stefania Albanesi, Columbia University and NBER
Aysegul Sahin, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
The Gender Unemployment Gap


2:00 pm


Eric Smith, University of Essex
Pedro Silos, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Human Capital Portfolios


3:00 pm


Break


3:30 pm


Andreas Hornstein, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Accounting for Unemployment: The Long and the Short of It


4:30 pm


Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER
Matthew Notowidigdo, University of Chicago and NBER
Kerwin Kofi Charles, University of Chicago and NBER
Manufacturing Busts, Housing Booms, and Declining Employment: A Structural Explanation


5:30 pm


Adjourn


6:00 pm


Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA


Thursday, July 19:


12:00 n


Lunch


1:00 pm


Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University and NBER
Oleg Itskhoki, Princeton University and NBER
Marc-Andreas Muendler, University of California at San Diego and NBER
Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER
Trade and Inequality: From Theory to Estimation


2:00 pm


Pablo Fajgelbaum, University of California at Los Angeles
Labor Market Frictions, Firm Growth, and International Trade


3:00 pm


Break


3:30 pm


Brent Neiman, University of Chicago and NBER
Loukas Karabarbounis, University of Chicago and NBER
Declining Labor Shares and the Global Rise of Corporate Savings


4:30 pm


Per Krusell, Stockholm University and NBER
Leena Rudanko, Boston University and NBER
Unions in a Frictional Labor Market


5:30 pm


Adjourn


Friday, July 20:


12:00 n


Lunch


1:00 pm


Morris Davis, University of Wisconsin
Jonas Fisher, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Marcelo Veracierto, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
The Role of Housing in Labor Reallocation

2:00 pm


Greg Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Sam Schulhofer-Wohl, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Understanding the Long-Run Decline in Interstate Migration


3:00 pm


Briana Chang, Northwestern University
A Search Theory of Sectoral Reallocation


4:00 pm


Adjourn