SI 2016 Macro Perspectives
Organized by Philipp Kircher, Guido Menzio, and Giuseppe Moscarini
July 18-22, 2016
Royal Sonesta Hotel
Monday, July 18
1:00 pm

Aggregate Recruiting Intensity

Alessandro Gavazza, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Simon Mongey, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER
Giovanni L. Violante, Princeton University and NBER
2:00 pm

Do Recessions Accelerate Routine-Biased Technological Change? Evidence from Vacancy Postings

Brad Hershbein, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Lisa B. Kahn, University of Rochester and NBER
3:30 pm

The Aggregate Effects of Labor Market Frictions

Michael W. Elsby, The University of Edinburgh
Ryan Michaels, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
4:30 pm

The Limited Macroeconomic Effects of Unemployment Benefit Extensions

Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University and NBER
Loukas Karabarbounis, University of Minnesota and NBER
Tuesday, July 19
1:00 pm

Multidimensional Sorting under Random Search

Ilse Lindenlaub, Yale University and NBER
Fabien Postel-Vinay, University College London
2:00 pm

The Anatomy of the Wage Distribution

Rasmus Lentz, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Suphanit Piyapromdee, University College London
Jean-Marc Robin, SciencesPo
3:30 pm

The effects of Moral Hazard on a Frictional Labor Market

Arpad Abraham, University of Bristol
Fernando Alvarez-Parra, CAF Development Bank of Latin Americamerica
Susanne Forstner, Stockholm University
4:30 pm

Behavioral Macroeconomics via Sparse Dynamic Programming

Xavier Gabaix, Harvard University and NBER
Wednesday, July 20
1:00 pm

Dynamism Diminished: The Role of Housing Markets and Credit Conditions

Steven J. Davis, Stanford University and NBER
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
2:00 pm

Job Polarization and Structural Change

Zsofia Barany, Sciences Po
Christian Siegel, University of Kent
3:30 pm

Stochastic Sorting

Jan Eeckhout, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
4:30 pm

Breaking the Spell with Credit Easing: Self-Confirming Credit Crises in Competitive Search Economies

Gaetano Gaballo, HEC Paris
Ramon Marimon, European University Institute
Thursday, July 21
1:00 pm

Intra Firm Bargaining and Shapley Values

Björn Bruegemann, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2:00 pm

Ranking Firms Using Revealed Preference

Isaac Sorkin, Stanford University and NBER
3:30 pm

The Optimal Use of Government Purchases for Stabilization

Pascal Michaillat, University of California, Santa Cruz and NBER
Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
4:30 pm

Coordination and the Dynamics of Unemployment

Edouard Schaal, Pompeu Fabra University
Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel, Cornell University
Friday, July 22
8:30 am

Efficient Job Upgrading, Search on the Job and Output Dispersion

Shouyong Shi, Queen's University
9:30 am

Directed Search with Phantom Vacancies

James Albrecht, Georgetown University
11:00 am

Identifying Ambiguity Shocks in Business Cycle Models Using Survey Data

Anmol P. Bhandari, University of Minnesota and NBER
Jaroslav Borovička, New York University and NBER
Paul Ho, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
12:00 n

Measuring Matching Efficiency with Variable Search Effort

Andreas Hornstein, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Marianna Kudlyak, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco