SI 2016 Macro Perspectives

Philipp Kircher, Guido Menzio, and Giuseppe Moscarini, Organizers

July 18-22, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Monday, July 18
1:00 pm	Alessandro Gavazza, London School of Economics Simon Mongey, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER Giovanni L. Violante, Princeton University and NBER Aggregate Recruiting Intensity
2:00 pm	Brad Hershbein, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Lisa B. Kahn, University of Rochester and NBER Do Recessions Accelerate Routine-Biased Technological Change? Evidence from Vacancy Postings
3:30 pm	Michael W. Elsby, University of Edinburgh Ryan Michaels, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia The Aggregate Effects of Labor Market Frictions
4:30 pm	Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University and NBER Loukas Karabarbounis, University of Minnesota and NBER The Limited Macroeconomic Effects of Unemployment Benefit Extensions
Tuesday, July 19
1:00 pm	Ilse Lindenlaub, Yale University and NBER Fabien Postel-Vinay, University College London Multidimensional Sorting under Random Search
2:00 pm	Rasmus Lentz, University of Wisconsin-Madison Suphanit Piyapromdee, University College London Jean-Marc Robin, SciencesPo The Anatomy of the Wage Distribution
3:30 pm	Arpad Abraham, University of Bristol Fernando Alvarez-Parra, CAF Development Bank of Latin Americamerica Susanne Forstner, Stockholm University The effects of Moral Hazard on a Frictional Labor Market
4:30 pm	Xavier Gabaix, Harvard University and NBER Behavioral Macroeconomics via Sparse Dynamic Programming
Wednesday, July 20
1:00 pm	Steven J. Davis, Stanford University and NBER John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER Dynamism Diminished: The Role of Housing Markets and Credit Conditions
2:00 pm	Zsofia Barany, Sciences Po Christian Siegel, University of Kent Job Polarization and Structural Change
3:30 pm	Jan Eeckhout, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Stochastic Sorting
4:30 pm	Gaetano Gaballo, HEC Paris Ramon Marimon, European University Institute Breaking the Spell with Credit Easing: Self-Confirming Credit Crises in Competitive Search Economies
Thursday, July 21
1:00 pm	Björn Bruegemann, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Intra Firm Bargaining and Shapley Values
2:00 pm	Isaac Sorkin, Stanford University and NBER Ranking Firms Using Revealed Preference
3:30 pm	Pascal Michaillat, University of California, Santa Cruz and NBER Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER The Optimal Use of Government Purchases for Stabilization
4:30 pm	Edouard Schaal, Pompeu Fabra University Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel, Cornell University Coordination and the Dynamics of Unemployment
Friday, July 22
8:30 am	Shouyong Shi, Queen's University Efficient Job Upgrading, Search on the Job and Output Dispersion
9:30 am	James Albrecht, Georgetown University Directed Search with Phantom Vacancies
11:00 am	Anmol P. Bhandari, University of Minnesota and NBER Jaroslav Borovička, New York University and NBER Paul Ho, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Identifying Ambiguity Shocks in Business Cycle Models Using Survey Data
12:00 n	Andreas Hornstein, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Marianna Kudlyak, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Measuring Matching Efficiency with Variable Search Effort