SI 2018 Micro Data and Macro Models

Erik Hurst, Greg Kaplan, and Giovanni L. Violante, Organizers

July 16-19, 2018

Longfellow Room

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 16
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Pablo Ottonello, University of Maryland and NBER
Thomas Winberry, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Financial Heterogeneity and the Investment Channel of Monetary Policy
9:45 am
Saleem A. Bahaj, University College London
Angus K. Foulis, Bank of England
Gabor Pinter, Bank of England
Paolo Surico, London Business School

The Employment Effects of Monetary Policy: Macro-Evidence from Firm-level Data
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am
Bill Dupor, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Marios Karabarbounis, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Marianna Kudlyak, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
M. Saif Mehkari, University of Richmond

Regional Consumption Responses and the Aggregate Fiscal Multiplier
11:30 am
Adrien Auclert, Stanford University and NBER
Matthew Rognlie, Northwestern University and NBER
Ludwig Straub, Harvard University and NBER

The Intertemporal Keynesian Cross
12:15 pm
Adjourn and Lunch
Tuesday, July 17
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Andreas Fagereng, BI Norwegian Business School
Martin B. Holm, University of Oslo
Benjamin Moll, London School of Economics
Gisle J. Natvik, BI Norwegian Business School

Saving Behavior Across the Wealth Distribution
9:45 am
Laurent Bach, ESSEC Business School
Laurent E. Calvet, EDHEC Business School
Paolo Sodini, Stockholm School of Economics

From Saving Comes Having? Disentangling the Impact of Saving on Wealth Inequality
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am
Adam Guren, Boston University and NBER
Alisdair McKay, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Emi Nakamura, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jón Steinsson, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Housing Wealth Effects: The Long View
11:30 am
Andreas Fuster, EPFL and Swiss Finance Institute
Greg Kaplan, University of Chicago and NBER
Basit Zafar, University of Michigan and NBER

What Would You Do with $500? Spending Responses to Gains, Losses, News and Loans
12:15 pm
Adjourn and Lunch
Wednesday, July 18
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Job Boerma, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Loukas Karabarbounis, University of Minnesota and NBER

Inferring Inequality with Home Production
9:45 am
Andrea L. Eisfeldt, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Antonio Falato, Federal Reserve Board
Mindy X. Zhang, University of Texas at Austin

Human Capitalists
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am
Elizabeth M. Caucutt, University of Western Ontario
Nezih Guner, CEMFI
Christopher Rauh, University of Cambridge

Is Marriage for White People? Incarceration, Unemployment, and the Racial Marriage Divide
11:30 am
Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota and NBER
Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University and NBER
Sergio C. Salgado Ibanez, University of Pennsylvania
John Sabelhaus, Brookings Institution
Jae Song, Social Security Administration

The Great Micro Moderation (slides)
12:15 pm
Adjourn and Lunch
6:00 pm
Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Thursday, July 19
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Dean Corbae, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Andrew Glover, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Employer Credit Checks: Poverty Traps versus Matching Efficiency
9:45 am
J. Carter Braxton, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kyle F. Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota and NBER
Gordon M. Phillips, Dartmouth College and NBER

Can the Unemployed Borrow? Implications for Public Insurance
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am
David O. Argente, Yale University and NBER
Munseob Lee, University of California, San Diego
Sara Moreira, Northwestern University and NBER

How do Firms Grow? The Life Cycle of Products Matters
11:30 am
Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Harald Uhlig, University of Chicago and NBER

Neoclassical Growth with Long-Term One-Sided Commitment Contracts (slides)
12:15 pm
Adjourn and Lunch