SI 2015 Macro Perspectives

Philipp Kircher, Guido Menzio, and Giuseppe Moscarini, Organizers

July 13-17, 2015

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

12:00 noon
Jason Faberman, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Andreas I. Mueller, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Aysegul Sahin, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Giorgio Topa, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Job Search Behavior among the Employed and Non-Employed
Monday, July 13
1:00 pm
Marcus Hagedorn, University of Oslo
Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Kurt Mitman, Institute for International Economic Studies

Labor Market Implications of Unemployment Benefit Extensions
2:00 pm
Jan Eeckhout, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Ilse Lindenlaub, Yale University and NBER

Unemployment Cycles
3:30 pm
3:30 pm
Kyle F. Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota and NBER
Gordon M. Phillips, Dartmouth College and NBER

How Credit Constraints Impact Job Finding Rates, Sorting & Aggregate Output
4:30 pm
4:30 pm
Rachel Ngai, London School of Economics
Kevin Sheedy, London School of Economics

Moving House
Tuesday, July 14
1:00 pm
Gregor Jarosch, Duke University and NBER
Laura Pilossoph, Duke University and NBER

Statistical Discrimination and Duration Dependence in the Job Finding Rate
2:00 pm
Robert E. Hall, Stanford University and NBER
Sam Schulhofer-Wohl, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Measuring Job-Finding Rates and Matching Efficiency with Heterogeneous Jobseekers
3:30 pm
3:30 pm
Fernando E. Alvarez, University of Chicago and NBER
Katarina Borovickova, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Robert Shimer, University of Chicago and NBER

The Proportional Hazard Model: Estimation and Testing using Price Change and Labor Market Data
4:30 pm
4:30 pm
James D. Hamilton, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Hie Joo Ahn, Federal Reserve Board

Heterogeneity and Unemployment Dynamics
Wednesday, July 15
1:00 pm
Jae Song, Social Security Administration
David J. Price, University of Toronto
Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota and NBER
Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER

Firming Up Inequality
2:00 pm
2:00 pm
Jeremy Lise, University of Minnesota
Fabien Postel-Vinay, University College London

Multidimensional Skills, Sorting, and Human Capital Accumulation
3:30 pm
Chiara Fratto, University of Chicago
Harald Uhlig, University of Chicago and NBER

Accounting for Post-Crisis Inflation and Employment: A Retro Analysis
4:30 pm
4:30 pm
Oleg Itskhoki, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University and NBER

Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Dynamics with Heterogenous Firms
Thursday, July 16
1:00 pm
Patrick Kehoe, Stanford University and NBER
Virgiliu Midrigan, New York University and NBER
Elena Pastorino, Stanford University and NBER

Debt Constraints and Employment
2:00 pm
Mikhail Golosov, University of Chicago and NBER
Luigi Iovino, Bocconi University

Social Insurance, Information Revelation, and Lack of Commitment
3:30 pm
Stephane Bonhomme, University of Chicago
Thibaut Lamadon, University of Chicago and NBER
Elena Manresa, New York University

A Distributional Framework for Matched Employer Employee Data
Friday, July 17
8:30 am
8:30 am
Axel N.O. Gottfries, University of Edinburgh
Coen N. Teulings, Utrecht University

What does the data say about wage setting and job search?
9:30 am
9:30 am
Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Ronald Wolthoff, University of Toronto

Opening the Black Box of the Matching Function: the Power of Words
11:00 am