Saturday, July 13
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

Reconciling Macroeconomics and Finance for the US Corporate Sector: 1929 - Present

Andrew Atkeson, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Jonathan Heathcote, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Fabrizio Perri, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Discussant:
Sydney C. Ludvigson, New York University and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am

Exchange Rates, Natural Rates, and the Price of Risk

Rohan Kekre, University of Chicago and NBER
Moritz Lenel, Princeton University and NBER

Discussant:
Oleg Itskhoki, Harvard University and NBER
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am

Gaining Steam: Incumbent Lock-in and Entrant Leapfrogging

Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago and NBER
Shanon H. Hsu, University of Chicago
Anders Humlum, University of Chicago
Martin Rotemberg, New York University

Discussant:
Jane Olmstead-Rumsey, London School of Economics
12:30 pm
Lunch - Ballroom B
1:30 pm

Urban-Biased Growth: A Macroeconomic Analysis

Fabian Eckert, University of California, San Diego
Sharat Ganapati, Georgetown University and NBER
Conor Walsh, Columbia University

Discussant:
Benny Kleinman, Stanford University and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

Robust Bounds on Optimal Tax Progressivity

Anmol Bhandari, University of Minnesota and NBER
Jaroslav Borovička, New York University and NBER
Yuki Yao, University of Kent

Discussant:
Eric Zwick, University of Chicago and NBER
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm

Data and Markups: A Macro-Finance Perspective

Jan Eeckhout, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Laura Veldkamp, Columbia University and NBER

Discussant:
Nicolas Crouzet, Northwestern University
5:00 pm
Adjourn