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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2014 Economic Fluctuations and Growth Working Group on Aggregate Implications of Microeconomic Consumption Behavior

Orazio Attanasio, Christopher D. Carroll, and José-Víctor Ríos-Rull, Organizers

July 14-18, 2014
 

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Charles B

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

 

Monday, July 14


8:30 am


Coffee and pastries


Labor supply, taxation, and redistribution


9:00 am


Stefania Albanesi, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Maria J. Prados, University of Southern California
Inequality and Household Labor Supply


9:45 am


Seonyoung Park, University of Delaware
Explaining the Recent Decline of Married Women's Labor Supply: A Cohort Approach


10:30 am


Break


10:45 am


Nezih Guner, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Martin Lopez-Daneri, Banco Central de Chile
Gustavo Ventura, Arizona State University
Heterogeneity and Government Revenues: Higher Taxes at the Top?


11:30 am


Fabian Kindermann, University of Wuerzburg
Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
The Redistributive Benefits of Progressive Labor and Capital Income Taxation


12:15 pm


Lunch & Adjourn


Tuesday, July 15


8:30 am


Coffee and pastries


Income and consumption


9:00 am


Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota and NBER
Fatih Karahan, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Serdar Ozkan, Federal Reserve Board
Jae Song, Social Security Administration
What Do Data on Millions of U.S. Workers Say About Life Cycle Income Risk?


9:45 am


Jason M. DeBacker, Department of the Treasury
Vasia Panousi, Federal Reserve Board
Shanthi Ramnath, Department of the Treasury
A Risky Venture: Income Dynamics within the Non-Corporate Private Business Sector


10:30 am


Break


10:45 am


Stefania Albanesi, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Jaromir Nosal, Columbia University
Bankruptcy, Delinquency and Debt after the 2005 Bankruptcy Law


11:30 am


Olivier Coibion, University of Texas, Austin and NBER
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Marianna Kudlyak, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
John A. Mondragon, University of California at Berkeley
Does Greater Inequality Lead to More Household Borrowing? New Evidence from Household Data


12:15 pm


Lunch & Adjourn


Wednesday, July 16


8:30 am


Coffee and pastries


Consumption and labor supply over the business cycle


9:00 am


Scott R. Baker, Stanford University
Debt and the Consumption Response to Household Income Shocks


9:45 am


Tom Krebs, University of Mannheim
Labor Market Reform and the Cost of Business Cycles


10:30 am


Break


10:45 am


Moritz Kuhn, University of Bonn
Sebastian Koehne, IIES, Stockholm University
Should Unemployment Insurance be Asset-tested?


11:30 am


Aditya Aladangady, University of Michigan
Homeowner Balance Sheets and Monetary Policy


12:15 pm


Lunch & Adjourn

6:00 pm

Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel

Thursday, July 17


8:30 am


Coffee and pastries


Other


9:00 am


Lutz Hendricks, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Oksana Leukhina, University of Washington
The Return to College: Selection and Dropout Risk


9:45 am


Hui He, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics
Feng Huang, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Zheng Liu, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Dongming Zhu, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Breaking the "Iron Rice Bowl" and Precautionary Savings: Evidence from Chinese State-Owned Enterprises Reform


10:30


Break


10:45 am


Teodora Boneva, University of Cambridge
Neighbourhood Effects in Consumption: Evidence from Disaggregated Consumption Behaviour


11:30 am


Omer Acikgoz, Yeshiva University
James Kahn, Yeshiva University
A Quantitative Model of "Too Big to Fail," House Prices, and the Financial Crisis


12:30pm

Lunch & Adjourn

 

5:00-6:30pm


The NBER Working Paper Series at 20,000, Ballroom A


Friday, July 18


Joint meeting with the Macro Perspectives group


8:30 am


Coffee and Pastries

9:00 am

Kyle Herkenhoff, University of California at Los Angeles
The Impact of Consumer Credit Access on Unemployment

10:00 am

Guido Menzio, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Large and Small Sellers: A Theory of Equilibrium Price Dispersion with Sequential Search
(with Nicholas Trachter)

11:00 am

Break

11:15 am

Sekyu Choi, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Javier Fernandez-Blanco, University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Unemployment Duration and Worker Turnover

12:15 pm

Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota and NBER
Burhanettin Kuruscu, University of Texas at Austin
Satoshi Tanaka, The University of Queensland
David G. Wiczer
Occupational Switching and Self-Discovery in the Labor Market

1:15 pm

Lunch


2:15 pm


John Sabelhaus, Federal Reserve Board
Survey of Consumer Finances 2016 Redesign: Presentation and Conversation (slides)


3:45 pm


Adjourn