35th Annual Conference on Macroeconomics

Martin S. Eichenbaum and Erik Hurst, Organizers

April 2-3, 2020

on Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, April 2
12:30 pm
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago and NBER
Pierre-Daniel Sarte, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Nicholas Trachter, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Diverging Trends in National and Local Concentration (slides)
Discussants: Robert E. Hall, Stanford University and NBER (slides)
Jan Eeckhout, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (slides)
1:40 pm
Break
2:00 pm
Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University and NBER
Huiyu Li, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Innovative Growth Accounting (slides)
Discussant: John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER (slides)
3:10 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Adam Guren, Boston University and NBER
Alisdair McKay, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Emi Nakamura, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jón Steinsson, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

What Do We Learn From Cross-Regional Empirical Estimates in Macroeconomics? (slides)
Discussants: Valerie A. Ramey, Stanford University and NBER (slides)
Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University and NBER (slides)
4:40 pm
Break
5:00 pm
Speaker: Jeremy Stein, Harvard University and NBER
Is the Financial System Safer Now
Friday, April 3
12:30 pm
Per Krusell, Stockholm University and NBER
Joachim Hubmer, University of Pennsylvania
Anthony A. Smith Jr., Yale University and NBER

Sources of U.S. Wealth Inequality: Past, Present, and Future (slides)
Discussants: Owen M. Zidar, Princeton University and NBER (slides)
Benjamin Moll, London School of Economics (slides)
1:40 pm
Break
2:00 pm
George-Marios Angeletos, Northwestern University and NBER
Zhen Huo, Yale University
Karthik Sastry, Princeton University and NBER

Imperfect Macroeconomic Expectations: Evidence and Theory (slides)
Discussants: Jessica Wachter, University of Pennsylvania and NBER (slides)
Ricardo Reis, London School of Economics (slides)
3:10 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota and NBER
Greg Kaplan, University of Chicago and NBER
Jae Song, Social Security Administration

The Glass Ceiling and The Paper Floor: Gender Differences among Top Earners, 1981-2012
Discussants: Paola Sapienza, Stanford University and NBER
Raquel Fernández, New York University and NBER (slides)
4:40 pm
Adjourn