Friday, July 15

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

8:30 am

Imagining the Future: Memory, Simulation and Beliefs about Covid

Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER
Nicola Gennaioli, Bocconi University
Pedro Bordalo, University of Oxford
Giovanni Burro, Bocconi University
Katherine B. Coffman, Harvard University

Discussant:
Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

9:30 am

Consumption out of Fictitious Capital Gains and Selective Inattention

Benjamin Loos, University of New South Wales
Steffen Meyer, Aarhus University
Michaela Pagel, Washington University in St Louis and NBER

Discussant:
Chen Lian, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

10:30 am

Break

11:00 am

Costly Attention and Retirement

Jamie Hentall-MacCuish, HEC Paris

Discussant:
Andrew Caplin, New York University and NBER

12:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm

The Macroeconomics of Narratives

Joel P. Flynn, Yale University
Karthik Sastry, Princeton University and NBER

Discussant:
Robert J. Shiller, Yale University and NBER

2:00 pm

Break

2:30 pm

Monetary Policy & Anchored Expectations - An Endogenous Gain Learning Model

Laura V. Gati, European Central Bank

Discussant:
Bruce Preston, University of New South Wales

3:30 pm

Model-free and Model-based Learning as Joint Drivers of Investor Behavior

Nicholas C. Barberis, Yale University and NBER
Lawrence J. Jin, Cornell University and NBER

Discussant:
Michael Woodford, Columbia University and NBER

4:30 pm

Adjourn