Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting
Ufuk Akcigit and Sydney C. Ludvigson, Organizers
February 28, 2020
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Benjamin Strong Room, 10th Floor, 33 Liberty Street, New York, NY
| Thursday, February 27 | ||||
| 6:30 pm |
Dinner, Federal Reserve Bank of New York (East Wing) Participants should enter at 44 Maiden Lane for the dinner. |
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| Friday, February 28 | ||||
| The meeting format for each paper will be a 15-minute presentation by the author, followed by one 20-minute discussion, and then another 25 minutes of general audience discussion. | ||||
| 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast | |||
| 9:00 am |
Leena Rudanko, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Firm Wages in a Frictional Labor Market
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| 10:00 am | Break | |||
| 10:15 am |
Germán Gutiérrez, University of Washington Thomas Philippon, New York University and NBER How EU Markets Became More Competitive Than US Markets: A Study of Institutional Drift
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| 11:15 am | Break | |||
| 11:30 am |
Matthew Smith, Department of the Treasury Owen M. Zidar, Princeton University and NBER Eric Zwick, University of Chicago and NBER Top Wealth in the United States: New Estimates and Implications for Taxing the Rich
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| 12:30 pm | Lunch - Liberty Dining Room, 1st Floor | |||
| 1:30 pm |
Rohan Kekre, University of Chicago and NBER Moritz Lenel, Princeton University and NBER Monetary Policy, Redistribution, and Risk Premia
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| 2:30 pm | Break | |||
| 2:45 pm |
Konrad B. Burchardi, IIES, Stockholm University Thomas Chaney, Sciences Po Tarek Alexander Hassan, Boston University and NBER Lisa Tarquinio, University of Western Ontario Stephen J. Terry, University of Michigan and NBER Immigration, Innovation, and Growth
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| 3:45 pm | Break | |||
| 4:00 pm |
Fatih Karahan, Amazon Serdar Ozkan, St Louis Fed Jae Song, Social Security Administration Anatomy of Lifetime Earnings Inequality: Heterogeneity in Job Ladder Risk vs. Human Capital
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| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |||