SI 2015 Aggregate Implications of Micro

Orazio Attanasio, Christopher D. Carroll, and José-Víctor Ríos-Rull, Organizers

July 13-17, 2015

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Monday, July 13
9:00 am	Consumption and House Prices in the Great Recession: Model Meets Evidence
9:45 am
9:45 am	The Rise and Fall of Consumption in the `00s
10:45 am	Failure to Launch: Housing, Debt Overhang, and the Inflation Option During the Great Recession
11:30 am
11:30 am	Homeowner Borrowing and Housing Collateral: New Evidence from Expiring Price Controls
Tuesday, July 14
9:00 am	Durables, Lemons, and Shocks
9:45 am
9:45 am	Interest Rates, Debt and Intertemporal Allocation: Evidence From Notched Mortgage Contracts in the UK
10:45 am	The Marginal Propensity to Consume Out of Liquidity
11:30 am
11:30 am	Using Elasticities to Derive Optimal Bankruptcy Exemptions
Wednesday, July 15
9:00 am	Inequality in 3-D: Income, Consumption, and Wealth
9:45 am	Higher-Order Income Risk and Social Insurance Policy Over the Business Cycle
10:45 am
10:45 am	How Persistent Are Consumption Habits? Micro-Evidence from Russia
11:30 am
11:30 am	The Price of Growth: Consumption Insurance in China 1989-2009
Thursday, July 16
9:00 am
9:00 am	Liquid Savings over the Business Cycle
9:45 am	Temptation and Commitment: the Role of Housing
10:45 am	Consumption Uncertainty and Precautionary Saving
11:30 am
11:30 am	‘House Prices Can’t Fall’: Do Beliefs Affect Consumer Spending and Borrowing Cycles?
Friday, July 17
9:00 am	Human Capital Spillovers and the Geography of Intergenerational Mobility
9:45 am
9:45 am	Family Background, Academic Ability, and College Decisions in the 20th Century U.S.
10:45 am
10:45 am	Degrees Are Forever: Marriage, Educational Investment, and Lifecycle Labor Decisions of Men and Women
11:30 am	Health Care Reform or Labor Market Reform? A Quantitative Analysis of the Affordable Care Act