Thursday, October 24

6:30 pm

Reception & Dinner at Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (LaSalle Dining Room)

Friday, October 25

The meeting format for each paper will be a 15-minute presentation by the author, followed by one 20-minute discussion, and then another 25 minutes of general audience discussion.

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

Money and Banking in a New Keynesian Model (slides)

Monika Piazzesi, Stanford University and NBER
Ciaran Rogers, HEC Paris
Martin Schneider, Stanford University and NBER

Discussant:
Varadarajan V. Chari, University of Minnesota and NBER

10:00 am

Break

10:15 am

The Industrial Revolution in Services

Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago and NBER
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago and NBER

Discussant:
Danial Lashkari, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

11:15 am

Break

11:30 am

The Job Ladder: Inflation vs. Reallocation

Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University and NBER
Fabien Postel-Vinay, University College London

Discussant:
Leonardo Melosi, University of Warwick

12:30 pm

Lunch - LaSalle Dining Room

1:30 pm

Consumer Surplus of Alternative Payment Methods: Paying Uber with Cash

Fernando E. Alvarez, University of Chicago and NBER
David O. Argente, Yale University and NBER

Discussant:
Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University and NBER

2:30 pm

Break

2:45 pm

Rational Sentiments and Economic Cycles

Maryam Farboodi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Peter Kondor, London School of Economics

Discussant:
Jennifer La'O, Columbia University and NBER

3:45 pm

Break

4:00 pm

Technological Transitions with Skill Heterogeneity Across Generations

Martin Beraja, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Rodrigo Adão, University of Chicago and NBER
Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, University of Texas at Austin and NBER

Discussant:
Christopher Tonetti, Stanford University and NBER

5:00 pm

Adjourn