SI 2017 Behavioral Macro

Andrew Caplin, Michael Woodford, and Christopher D. Carroll, Organizers

July 14, 2017

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, July 14
8:00 am
Coffee and pastries
8:30 am
Michael Bailey, Facebook
Eduardo Dávila, Yale University and NBER
Theresa Kuchler, New York University and NBER
Johannes Stroebel, New York University and NBER

House Price Beliefs and Leverage Choice
Discussant: Christopher D. Carroll, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
9:30 am
Camelia M. Kuhnen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and NBER
Stefan Nagel, University of Chicago and NBER
Sreyoshi Das, Bates White

Socioeconomic Status and Macroeconomic Expectations
Discussant: Monika Piazzesi, Stanford University and NBER
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am
Hassan Afrouzi, Columbia University and NBER

Strategic Inattention, Inflation Dynamics and the Non-Neutrality of Money
Discussant: Ricardo Reis, London School of Economics
12:00 noon
Lunch
1:00 pm
Jeffrey Fuhrer, Eastern Bank Foundation

Intrinsic Expectations Persistence: Evidence from Professional and Household Survey Expectations
Discussant: Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER
2:00 pm
Break
2:30 pm
Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Leslie Shen, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Scarred Consumption
Discussant: Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
3:30 pm
Xavier Gabaix, Harvard University and NBER
David Laibson, Harvard University and NBER

Myopia and Discounting
Discussant: Yoram Halevy, University of Toronto
4:30 pm
Adjourn