SI 2022 Behavioral Macro
Organized by Andrew Caplin and Michael Woodford
July 15, 2022
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us
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, Binghamton 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 and NBER
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