SI 2021 Macro Perspectives
Organized by Philipp Kircher, Guido Menzio, and Giuseppe Moscarini
July 21-23, 2021
on Zoom.us
Wednesday, July 21
10:50 am
Welcome
11:00 am

Structural Transformation and U-Shaped Female Employment (slides)

Rachel Ngai, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Claudia Olivetti, Dartmouth College and NBER
Barbara Petrongolo, University of Oxford
11:40 am
Break
11:50 am

Production, Amenities and Search Frictions with Two Sided Heterogeneity (slides)

Thibaut Lamadon, University of Chicago and NBER
Jeremy Lise, Cornell University
Costas Meghir, Yale University and NBER
Jean-Marc Robin, SciencesPo
12:30 pm
Break
1:10 pm

A Theory of Wage Rigidity and Unemployment Fluctuations with On-the-Job Search

Masao Fukui, Boston University and NBER
1:50 pm
Break
2:00 pm

Vacancies, Employment Outcomes and Firm Growth: Evidence from Denmark

Jesper Bagger, The University of Edinburgh
François Fontaine, Paris School of Economics
Manolis Galenianos, Royal Holloway, University of London (RH)
Ija Trapeznikova, Royal Holloway, University of London (RH)
2:40 pm
Adjourn
Thursday, July 22
11:00 am

Monopsony Makes Firms not only Small but also Unproductive: Why East Germany has not Converged

Ruediger Bachmann, University of Michigan
Christian Bayer, University of Bonn
Heiko Stüber, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Felix Wellschmied, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
11:40 am
Break
11:50 am

The Alpha Beta Gamma of the Labor Market

Victoria Gregory, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Guido Menzio, New York University and NBER
David G. Wiczer, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
12:30 pm
Break
1:10 pm

Equilibrium Job Turnover and the Business Cycle

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, University of Essex
Alex J. Clymo, University of Essex
Melvyn Coles, University of Essex
1:50 pm
Break
2:00 pm

Turnover Costs Are Large: Evidence from Unexpected Worker Separations

Antoine Bertheau, Norwegian School of Economics
Simon Jäger, Princeton University and NBER
Pïerre Cahuc, Sciences Po
Rune M. Vejlin, Aarhus University
2:40 pm
Adjourn
Friday, July 23
11:00 am

Task Based Discrimination (slides)

Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER
Kazuatsu Shimizu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yona Rubinstein, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
11:40 am
Break
11:50 am

Job Applications and Labor Market Flows (slides)

Serdar Birinci, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Kurt Gerrard See, Bank of Canada
Shu Lin Wee, University of Melbourne
12:30 pm
Break
1:10 pm

Not a Typical Firm: The Joint Dynamics of Firms, Labor Shares, and Capital–Labor Substitution (slides)

Joachim Hubmer, University of Pennsylvania
Pascual Restrepo, Yale University and NBER
1:50 pm
Break
2:00 pm

Unbundling Labor (slides)

Simon Mongey, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER
Chris Edmond, University of Melbourne
2:40 pm
Adjourn