33rd Annual Conference on Macroeconomics

Jonathan A. Parker and Martin S. Eichenbaum, Organizers

April 12-13, 2018

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, April 12

3:00 pm

The Economics of Border Adjustment Taxes (slides)

Discussants:

Alan J. Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
N. Gregory Mankiw, Harvard University and NBER

4:30 pm

Break

5:00 pm

The Tail that Keeps the Riskless Rate Low (slides)

Discussants:

François Gourio, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Robert E. Hall, Stanford University and NBER

6:30 pm

Adjourn

7:00 pm

Group Dinner - Parkview Room

Speaker: Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago and NBER

Friday, April 13

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

8:30 am

Monetary Policy Analysis when Planning Horizons are Finite (slides)

Discussants:

Jennifer La'O, Columbia University and NBER
Guido Lorenzoni, University of Chicago and NBER

10:00 am

Break

10:30 am

The Transformation of Manufacturing and the Decline in U.S. Employment (slides)

Discussants:

Lawrence F. Katz, Harvard University and NBER
Valerie A. Ramey, Stanford University and NBER

12:00 n

Lunch - Parkview Room

Lunch Panel: The Macroeconomics of the 2017 Tax Act

Chair: James Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Wendy Edelberg, Congressional Budget Office (slides)
Kent Smetters, University of Pennsylvania and NBER (slides)
Mark Zandi, Moody’s Analytics (slides)

1:30 pm

The Financial Soundness of US Banks (slides)

Discussants:

Juliane Begenau, Stanford University and NBER
Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard University and NBER

3:00 pm

Break

3:30 pm

Accounting for Factorless Income (slides)

Discussants:

Richard Rogerson, Princeton University and NBER
Matthew Rognlie, Northwestern University and NBER

5:00 pm

Adjourn