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

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

Innovative Growth Accounting (slides)
Discussant: John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER (slides)
3:10 pm
Break
3:30 pm

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

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 and Political Science (LSE) (slides)
1:40 pm
Break
2:00 pm

Imperfect Macroeconomic Expectations: Evidence and Theory (slides)
Discussants: Jessica Wachter, University of Pennsylvania and NBER (slides)
Ricardo Reis, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (slides)
3:10 pm
Break
3:30 pm

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