Behavioral Macroeconomics Research Boot Camp
Organized by Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
March 12, 2020
on Zoom.us

Thursday, March 12

9:00 am

Diagnostic Expectations and Credit Cycles (slides)

Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER

10:00 am

Break

10:15 am

Experience-Based Learning

Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

11:15 am

Break

11:30 am

Behavioral Inattention: From Micro to Macro (slides)

(related paper)

Xavier Gabaix, Harvard University and NBER

12:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm

Stabilization Policy when Planning Horizons are Finite (slides)

Michael Woodford, Columbia University and NBER

2:30 pm

Break

2:45 pm

Measuring Expected and Contingent Income over the Life Cycle

Andrew Caplin, New York University and NBER

3:45 pm

Break

4:00 pm

Empirical Evidence on Topics in Behavioral Macroeconomics (slides)

Michaela Pagel, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER

5:00 pm

Behavioral & Experimental Macroeconomics and Policy Analysis: A Complex Systems Approach (slides)

Cars Hommes, Bank of Canada

6:00 pm

Adjourn