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

Financial Heterogeneity and the Investment Channel of Monetary Policy
9:45 am

The Employment Effects of Monetary Policy: Macro-Evidence from Firm-level Data
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am

Regional Consumption Responses and the Aggregate Fiscal Multiplier
11:30 am

The Intertemporal Keynesian Cross
12:15 pm
Adjourn and Lunch
Tuesday, July 17
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

Saving Behavior Across the Wealth Distribution
9:45 am

From Saving Comes Having? Disentangling the Impact of Saving on Wealth Inequality
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am

Housing Wealth Effects: The Long View
11:30 am

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

Inferring Inequality with Home Production
9:45 am

Human Capitalists
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am

Is Marriage for White People? Incarceration, Unemployment, and the Racial Marriage Divide
11:30 am

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

Employer Credit Checks: Poverty Traps versus Matching Efficiency
9:45 am

Can the Unemployed Borrow? Implications for Public Insurance
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am

How do Firms Grow? The Life Cycle of Products Matters
11:30 am

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