Economic Fluctuations and Growth Program Meeting
Organized by Veronica Guerrieri and Greg Kaplan
November 6, 2026
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, IL (Moskow Auditorium)
Format: 20 minutes each for the author, discussant, and general discussion.
Thursday, November 5
6:00 pm
Group Dinner
One North Kitchen & Bar, 1 North Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL
Friday, November 6
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

The Perils of Narrowing Fiscal Spaces

Hanno Kase, European Central Bank
Leonardo Melosi, European University Institute
Sebastian Rast, De Nederlandsche Bank
Matthias Rottner, Deutsche Bundesbank

Discussant:
Alessandro Dovis, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am

Why Do Americans No Longer Work So Much More Than Non-Americans?

Serdar Birinci, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Loukas Karabarbounis, University of Minnesota and NBER
Kurt See, National University of Singapore

Discussant:
Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am

Importing Aggregate Demand

Chen Lian, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Dmitry Mukhin, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Christian K. Wolf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Discussant:
Jennifer La'O, Columbia University and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

Cataloging Growth: A Re-Evaluation of 1900–1990

Verónica Bäcker Peral, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Benjamin H. Wittenbrink, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussant:
Mark Bils, University of Rochester and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

Winners and Losers: Competition, Creative Destruction, and Labor Income Risk

Brice C. Green, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Leonid Kogan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Dimitris Papanikolaou, Northwestern University and NBER
Lawrence D.W. Schmidt, University of California, San Diego and NBER

Discussant:
Simon Mongey, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm

The Skill Premium in Times of Rapid Technical Change

Tarek Alexander Hassan, Boston University and NBER
Aakash Kalyani, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Pascual Restrepo, Yale University and NBER

Discussant:
Julieta Caunedo, Cornell University
5:00 pm
Adjourn