Friday, February 24

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

Why Are Returns to Private Business Wealth So Dispersed?

Corina Boar, New York University and NBER
Denis Gorea, Bank for International Settlements
Virgiliu Midrigan, New York University and NBER

Discussant:
Ellen McGrattan, University of Minnesota and NBER

10:00 am

Break

10:15 am

Strategic Complementarities in a Dynamic Model of Technology Adoption: P2P Digital Payments

Fernando E. Alvarez, University of Chicago and NBER
David Argente, Yale University and NBER
Francesco Lippi, LUISS Guido Carli University
Esteban Méndez, Central Bank of Costa Rica
Diana Van Patten, Yale University and NBER

Discussant:
Nicolas Crouzet, Northwestern University

11:15 am

Break

11:30 am

Work From Home and the Office Real Estate Apocalypse

Arpit Gupta, New York University
Vrinda Mittal, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Columbia University and NBER

Discussant:
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago and NBER

12:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm

Inequality and Measured Growth

Ezra Oberfield, Cornell University and NBER

Discussant:
Danial Lashkari, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

2:30 pm

Break

2:45pm

Product Differentiation and Oligopoly: A Network Approach

Bruno Pellegrino, Columbia University and NBER

Discussant:
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi, Northwestern University

3:45 pm

Break

4:00 pm

Micro MPCs and Macro Counterfactuals: The Case of the 2008 Rebates

Jacob Orchard, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Valerie A. Ramey, Stanford University and NBER
Johannes Wieland, University of California, San Diego and NBER

Discussant:
Christina Patterson, University of Chicago and NBER

5:00 pm

Adjourn