Economic Growth Small Group Meeting

Ezra Oberfield and Michael Peters, Organizers

February 22, 2018

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 101 Market Street, San Francisco, CA

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, February 22
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Alexander Monge-Naranjo, European University Institute
Pedro Cavalcanti Gomes Ferreira, Fundacao Getulio Vargas
Luciene T. Pereira, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Of Cities and Slums
Discussant: Tommaso Porzio, Columbia University and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am
Berthold Herrendorf, Arizona State University
Richard Rogerson, Princeton University and NBER
Akos Valentinyi, University of Manchester

Structural Change in Consumption and Investment: A Unified Approach
Discussant: Todd Schoellman, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am
Pablo Fajgelbaum, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Cecile Gaubert, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Optimal Spatial Policies, Geography and Sorting
Discussant: Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Kiminori Matsuyama, Northwestern University

Engel's Law in the Global Economy: Demand-Induced Patterns of Structural Change, Innovation, and Trade
Discussant: Danial Lashkari, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm
Jeremy Greenwood, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Pengfei Han, University of Pennsylvania
Juan M. Sanchez, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Financing Ventures
Discussant: Ellen McGrattan, University of Minnesota and NBER
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm
Markus K. Brunnermeier, Princeton University and NBER
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Oleg Itskhoki, Harvard University and NBER

Consumption-led Growth
Discussant: Christopher Tonetti, Stanford University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn