SI 2019 Macro Perspectives
Organized by Philipp Kircher, Guido Menzio, and Giuseppe Moscarini
July 15-19, 2019
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Monday, July 15
12:00 n
Lunch
1:00 pm

Labor Market Power

David W. Berger, Duke University and NBER
Kyle F. Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota and NBER
Simon Mongey, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER
2:00 pm

Granular Search, Market Structure, and Wages

Gregor Jarosch, Duke University and NBER
Jan Sebastian Nimczik, ESMT Berlin
Isaac Sorkin, Stanford University and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm

The Worker-Job Surplus

Ilse Lindenlaub, Yale University and NBER
Fabien Postel-Vinay, University College London
4:30 pm

Government Expenditure on the Public Education System

Chao Fu, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Shoya Ishimaru, University of Wisconsin - Madison
John Kennan, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
5:30 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 16
12:00 n
Lunch
1:00 pm

Job-Finding and Job-Losing: A Comprehensive Model of Heterogeneous Individual Labor-Market Dynamics

Robert E. Hall, Stanford University and NBER
Marianna Kudlyak, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
2:00 pm

Job Seekers' Perceptions and Employment Prospects: Heterogeneity, Duration Dependence and Bias

Andreas I. Mueller, University of Zurich
Johannes Spinnewijn, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Giorgio Topa, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm

Job Referrals and Hiring Frictions

Benjamin Lester, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Giorgio Topa, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
David Rivers, University of Western Ontario
4:30 pm

Search Complementarities, Aggregate Fluctuations, and Fiscal Policy

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Federico Mandelman, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Yang Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Francesco Zanetti, University of Oxford
5:30 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 17
12:00 n
Lunch
1:00 pm

Firm Dynamics, On-the-Job Search and Labor Market Fluctuations

Michael W. Elsby, The University of Edinburgh
Axel N.O. Gottfries, The University of Edinburgh
2:00pm

Trends in Work and Leisure: It's a Family Affair

Titan M. Alon, University of California, San Diego
Sena E. Coskun Dalgic, University of Nuremberg
Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm

Marginal Jobs and Job Surplus: A Test of the Efficiency of Separations

Simon Jäger, Princeton University and NBER
Benjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Josef Zweimüller, University of Zurich
4:30 pm

Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in the United States: New Evidence from Worker-Firm Linked Data

André Kurmann, Drexel University
Erika McEntarfer, Bureau of Labor Statistics
5:30 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Thursday, July 18
12:00 n
Lunch
1:00 pm

What Explains the Racial Gaps in Task Assignment and Pay Over the Life Cycle?

Limor Golan, Washington University in St Louis
Jonathan James, California Polytechnic State University
Carl Sanders, Washington University in St Louis
2:00 pm

The Gender Gap: Micro Sources and Macro Consequences

Iacopo Morchio Mr, University of Bristol
Christian A. Moser, Columbia University and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm

Intangibles, Inequality and Stagnation

Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Princeton University and NBER
Shengxing Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business
4:30 pm

The IT Revolution and Southern Europe's Two Lost Decades

Fabiano Schivardi, Luiss Guido Carli University
Tom G. Schmitz, Queen Mary University of London
5:30 pm
Adjourn
Friday, July 19
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am

Earnings Growth, Job Flows and Churn

Satoshi Tanaka, The University of Queensland
Lawrence F. Warren, U.S. Census Bureau
David G. Wiczer, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
9:30 am

On the Dynamics of Firm Employment

Jesper Bagger, The University of Edinburgh
Manolis Galenianos, Royal Holloway, University of London (RH)
Ija Trapeznikova, Royal Holloway, University of London (RH)
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am

On the Dynamics of Occupational Choice, Human Capital and Inequality

Maximiliano Dvorkin, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Alexander Monge-Naranjo, European University Institute
12:00 n

Block-Recursive Equilibria in Heterogeneous Agent Models

Leo Kaas, Goethe University Frankfurt
1:00 pm
Lunch and Adjourn