SI 2016 Macro Perspectives

Philipp Kircher, Guido Menzio, and Giuseppe Moscarini, Organizers

July 18-22, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

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, University College London

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 and NBER

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