SI 2015 Macro Perspectives

Philipp Kircher, Guido Menzio, and Giuseppe Moscarini, Organizers

July 13-17, 2015

Royal Sonesta Hotel

12:00 noon	Jason Faberman, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Andreas I. Mueller, University of Zurich Aysegul Sahin, Princeton University 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, Cornell University 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, Harvard University 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