SI 2023 Micro Data and Macro Models
Organized by Erik Hurst, Greg Kaplan, and Giovanni L. Violante
July 17-20, 2023
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us
Monday, July 17
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am

Investment, Innovation, and Financial Frictions

Pablo Ottonello, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
Thomas Winberry, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
9:20 am
Break
9:30 am

The Impact of Social Insurance on Household Debt

Gideon Bornstein, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Sasha Indarte, University of Pennsylvania
10:20 am
Break
10:40 am

Redistribution and the Wage-price Spirals: Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy

Xavier Ragot, Sciences Po
Francois Le Grand, Rennes School of Business
Thomas Bourany, University of Chicago
11:30 am
Break
11:40 am

A Perturbational Approach for Approximating Heterogeneous-Agent Models

Anmol Bhandari, University of Minnesota and NBER
Thomas Bourany, University of Chicago
David Evans, University of Oregon
Mikhail Golosov, University of Chicago and NBER
12:30 pm
Adjourn and Lunch
Tuesday, July 18
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am

On the Size of Stimulus Checks: How Much is too Much?

Martin Beraja, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Nathan Zorzi, Dartmouth College
9:20 am
Break
9:30 am

The Cross Section of Household Preferences and the Marginal Propensity to Consume: Evidence from High Frequency Data (slides)

Elena Andreou, University of Cyprus
Maria Demetriadou, University of Cyprus
Andreas Tryphonides, University of Cyprus
10:20 am
Break
10:40 am

Are Inflationary Shocks Regressive? A Feasible Set Approach

Felipe N. Del Canto, Harvard University
John R. Grigsby, Princeton University and NBER
Eric Qian, Princeton University
Conor Walsh, Columbia University
11:30 am
Break
11:40 am

Optimal Monetary Policy during a Cost-of-Living Crisis (slides)

Alan Olivi, University College London
Vincent Sterk, University College London
Dajana Xhani, Tilburg University
12:30 pm
Adjourn and Lunch
Wednesday, July 19
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am

Spillover Effects of Employment Protection

Pïerre Cahuc, Sciences Po
Pauline Carry, Princeton University
Franck P. Malherbet, THEMA - CNRS
Pedro S. Martins, Nova School of Business and Economics
9:20 am
Break
9:30 am

Why Firms Lay Off Workers instead of Cutting Wages: Evidence from Matched Survey-Administrative Data (slides)

Antoine Bertheau, Norwegian School of Economics
Marianna Kudlyak, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Birthe Larsen, Copenhagen Business School
Morten Bennedsen, Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires
10:20 am
Break
10:40 am

Causes and Consequences of Student-College Mismatch

Lutz Hendricks, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tatyana Koreshkova, Concordia University
Oksana Leukhina, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
11:30 am
Break
11:40 am

Fragmentation of Production and the Wage Distribution

Elisa Rubbo, University of Chicago and NBER
12:30 pm
Adjourn and Lunch
Thursday, July 20
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Macro Perspectives
8:30 am

Shopping, Demand Composition, and Equilibrium Prices

Lukas Nord, University of Pennsylvania
9:20 am
Break
9:30 am

Job Search, Wages, and Inflation (slides)

Laura Pilossoph, Duke University and NBER
Jane M. Ryngaert, University of Notre Dame
10:20 am
Break
10:40 am

The Colocation Friction: Dual-Earner Job Search and Labor Market Outcomes

Hanno Foerster, Boston College
Robert Ulbricht, Boston College
11:30 am
Break
11:40 am

Subjective Earnings Risk

Andrew Caplin, New York University and NBER
Victoria Gregory, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Eungik Lee, New York University
Søren Leth-Petersen, University of Copenhagen
Johan Sæverud, University of Copenhagen
12:30 pm
Adjourn and Lunch