
	Thursday, February 28
	FORMAT: For each paper, there will be a 20 min presentation by the author followed by a 20 min discussion by the discussant and 20 min of open-floor questions.
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Knowledge Diffusion, Trade and Innovation across Countries and Sectors Jie Cai, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Nan Li, International Monetary Fund Ana Maria Santacreu, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Discussant: Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Bringing Data to the Model: Quantitative Implications of an Equilibrium Diffusion Model Wyatt Brooks, Arizona State University Kevin Donovan, Yale University and NBER Terence R. Johnson, University of Virginia Discussant: Melanie Morten, Stanford University and NBER
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	From Population Growth to Firm Demographics: Implications for Concentration, Entrepreneurship and the Labor Share Hugo Hopenhayn, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Julian Neira, University of Exeter Rish Singhania, University of Exeter Discussant: Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University and NBER
12:30 pm	Lunch - Market Street Dining Room
1:30 pm	Income Growth and the Distributional Effects of Urban Spatial Sorting Victor Couture, University of British Columbia Cecile Gaubert, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Jessie Handbury, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER Discussant: Alessandra Fogli, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Workers’ Home Bias and Spatial Wage Gaps: Lessons from the Enduring Divide between East and West Germany Sebastian Heise, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Tommaso Porzio, Columbia University and NBER Discussant: Michael Peters, Yale University and NBER
3:45 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Demographic Transitions Across Time and Space (slides) Matthew J. Delventhal, Claremont McKenna College Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Nezih Guner, CEMFI Discussant: Ananth Seshadri, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
5:00 pm	Adjourn
	Saturday, October 26
1:30 pm	Income Growth and the Distributional Effects of Urban Spatial Sorting Victor Couture, University of British Columbia Cecile Gaubert, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Jessie Handbury, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER Discussant: Donald R. Davis, Columbia University and NBER

Participants

Cristina Arellano, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
ChaeWon Baek, Tufts University
Juliane Begenau, Stanford University and NBER
Anmol Bhandari, University of Minnesota and NBER
Jie Cai, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Manolis Chatzikonstantinou, Georgetown University, SFS-Q
Victor Couture, University of British Columbia
Joel M. David, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Matthew J. Delventhal, Claremont McKenna College
Paul Dolfen, Stanford University
Kevin Donovan, Yale University and NBER
John Fernald, INSEAD
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Alessandra Fogli, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Cecile Gaubert, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Sebastian Heise, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Hugo Hopenhayn, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University and NBER
David Lagakos, Boston University and NBER
Byoungchan Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Huiyu Li, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Peter McCrory

Ellen McGrattan, University of Minnesota and NBER
Todd E. Messer, Federal Reserve Board
Martí Mestieri, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Benjamin Moll, London School of Economics
Melanie Morten, Stanford University and NBER
Fernanda Nechio, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Julian Neira, University of Exeter
Michael Peters, Yale University and NBER
Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Tommaso Porzio, Columbia University and NBER
B. Ravikumar, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Walker D. Ray, London School of Economics
Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Nicholas Sander, Bank of Canada
Ana Maria Santacreu, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Maxime Sauzet, Boston University
Todd Schoellman, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Ananth Seshadri, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Rish Singhania, University of Exeter
Martin Stuermer, International Monetary Fund
Christopher Tonetti, Stanford University and NBER
Mauricio Ulate, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Venky Venkateswaran, New York University and NBER