SI 2022 Macro Perspectives
Organized by Philipp Kircher, Guido Menzio, and Giuseppe Moscarini
July 18-21, 2022
Longfellow Room, Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us
Monday, July 18
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

The Dual U.S. Labor Market Uncovered (slides)

Hie Joo Ahn, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Bart Hobijn, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Ayşegül Şahin, Princeton University and NBER
1:50 pm
Break
2:00 pm

Labor Market Structure, Wages and Inequality

Kyle F. Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota and NBER
Andreas R. Kostol, BI Norwegian Business School
David W. Berger, Duke University and NBER
Simon Mongey, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER
2:50 pm
Break
3:10 pm

Gender-Specific Application Behavior, Matching and the Residual Gender Wage Gap

Benjamin Lochner, Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
Christian Merkl, Friedrich-Alexander-University
4:00 pm
Break
4:10 pm

Matching Through Search Channels (slides)

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, University of Essex
Leo Kaas, Goethe University Frankfurt
Benjamin Lochner, Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 19
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

Industries, Mega Firms, and Increasing Inequality

John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
Henry R. Hyatt, U.S. Census Bureau
James Spletzer, U.S. Census Bureau, retired
1:50 pm
Break
2:00 pm

Misallocation and Inequality

Nezih Guner, CEMFI
Alessandro Ruggieri, CUNEF Universidad
2:50 pm
Break
3:10 pm

The Distributional Impact of the Minimum Wage in the Short and Long Run

Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER
Patrick J. Kehoe, Stanford University and NBER
Elena Pastorino, Stanford University and NBER
Thomas Winberry, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
4:00 pm
Break
4:10 pm

These Caps Spilleth Over: Equilibrium Effects of Unemployment Insurance

Cynthia Doniger, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Desmond J. Toohey, University of Delaware
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 20
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

Firm Sorting and Spatial Inequality

Ilse Lindenlaub, Yale University and NBER
Ryungha Oh, Northwestern University
Michael Peters, Yale University and NBER
1:50 pm
Break
2:00 pm

The Geography of Job Creation and Job Destruction

Moritz Kuhn, University of Mannheim
Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Xincheng Qiu, Peking University
2:50 pm
Break
3:10 pm

Equilibrium Worker-Firm Allocations and the Deadweight Losses of Taxation

Jesper Bagger, The University of Edinburgh
Espen Moen, Norwegian School of Management
Rune M. Vejlin, Aarhus University
4:00 pm
Break
4:10 pm

Matching Workers' Skills and Firms' Technologies: From Bundling to Unbundling (slides)

Philippe Choné, Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST)
Francis Kramarz, Innovation Lab, College de France
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Thursday, July 21
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning session joint with Micro Data and Macro Models
8:30 am

Markups Across the Income Distribution: Measurement and Implications (slides)

Kunal Sangani, Northwestern University
9:30 am

What Drives Wage Stagnation: Monopsony or Monopoly?

Shubhdeep Deb, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Jan Eeckhout, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Aseem Patel, Sciences Po, Paris
Lawrence Warren, U.S. Census Bureau
10:30 am

Did Racist Labor Policies Reverse Equality Gains for Everyone?

Erin L. Wolcott, Middlebury College
11:30 am

Work from Home Before and After the COVID-19 Outbreak

Alexander Bick, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Adam Blandin, Vanderbilt University
Karel Mertens, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
12:20 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

Monetary Policy and the Labor Market: A Quasi-Experiment in Sweden

John Coglianese, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Maria Olsson, BI Norwegian Business School
Christina Patterson, University of Chicago and NBER
2:20 pm
Break
2:30 pm

The Marginal Efficiency of Active Search

Christopher K. Huckfeldt, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
3:20 pm
Adjourn