EF&G Research Meeting
Organized by Francisco J. Buera and Ayşegül Şahin
October 25, 2019
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Illinois Room, 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois
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, European University Institute
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 and Political Science (LSE)

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