Economic Fluctuations and Growth Program Meeting

Mark Bils and Gita Gopinath, Organizers

July 15, 2017

Grand Ballroom

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.,Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, July 14
6:30 pm
Reception and Dinner - Royal Sonesta Hotel (Grand Ballroom/ West Tower)
Saturday, July 15
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Pascual Restrepo, Boston University and NBER

Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets
Discussant: Richard Rogerson, Princeton University and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am
Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University
David Baqaee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

The Macroeconomic Impact of Microeconomic Shocks: Beyond Hulten's Theorem
Discussant: Jennifer La'O, Columbia University and NBER
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am
David W. Berger, Duke University and NBER
Ian Dew-Becker, Northwestern University and NBER
Stefano Giglio, Yale University and NBER

Uncertainty Shocks as Second-Moment News Shocks
Discussant: Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch (Skyline and Longfellow Rooms/ West Tower)
1:30 pm
Nuno T. Coimbra, Banque de France
Hélène Rey, London Business School and NBER

Financial Cycles with Heterogeneous Intermediaries
Discussant: Arvind Krishnamurthy, Stanford University and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm
Òscar Jordà, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Katharina Knoll, Deutsche Bundesbank
Dmitry Kuvshinov, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Moritz Schularick, Kiel Institute for the World Economy & Sciences Po
Alan M. Taylor, Columbia University and NBER

The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015
Discussant: Matthew Rognlie, Northwestern University and NBER
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm
Philippe Aghion, London School of Economics
Antonin Bergeaud, HEC Paris
Timo Boppart, IIES, Stockholm University
Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University and NBER
Huiyu Li, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Missing Growth from Creative Destruction
Discussant: Pablo D. Fajgelbaum, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn