SI 2018 Macro Perspectives

Philipp Kircher, Guido Menzio, and Giuseppe Moscarini, Organizers

July 16-20, 2018

Longfellow Room

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

Monday, July 16
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Sebastian Heise, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Tommaso Porzio, Columbia University and NBER Why Do Spatial Wage Gaps Persist? Evidence from the Enduring Divide between East and West Germany
2:00 pm	Yujiang River Chen, University of Cambridge Coen N. Teulings, Utrecht University Agglomeration and Sorting (slides)
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Christopher House, University of Michigan and NBER Christian Proebsting, École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne Linda Tesar, University of Michigan and NBER The Benefits of Labor Mobility in a Currency Union
4:30 pm	Kevin Donovan, Yale University and NBER Jianyu Lu, Central Bank of Chile Todd Schoellman, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Labor Market Flows and Development
5:30 pm	Adjourn
Tuesday, July 17
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Stefania Albanesi, University of Miami and NBER Changing Business Cycles: The Role of Women's Employment (slides)
2:00 pm	Robert E. Hall, Stanford University and NBER The Role in the Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath of the Collapse and Restoration of Confidence (slides)
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	George-Marios Angeletos, Northwestern University and NBER Zhen Huo, Yale University Myopia and Anchoring
4:30 pm	John Conlon, Carnegie Mellon University Laura Pilossoph, Duke University and NBER Matthew J. Wiswall, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER Basit Zafar, University of Michigan and NBER Labor Market Search Without Rational Expectations
5:30 pm	Adjourn
Wednesday, July 18
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Gregor Jarosch, Duke University and NBER Ezra Oberfield, Cornell University and NBER Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago and NBER Learning from Coworkers
2:00 pm	Kyle F. Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota and NBER Jeremy Lise, Cornell University Guido Menzio, New York University and NBER Gordon M. Phillips, Dartmouth College and NBER Knowledge Diffusion in the Workplace
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Katarína Borovičková, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Robert Shimer, University of Chicago and NBER High Wage Workers Work for High Wage Firms
4:30 pm	Axel Anderson, Georgetown University Lones Smith, University of Wisconsin The Comparative Statics of Sorting
5:30 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Thursday, July 19
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Leena Rudanko, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Firm Wages in a Frictional Labor Market
2:00 pm	Simon Jaeger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Benjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Samuel G. Young, Arizona State University Josef Zweimueller, University of Zurich Wages and Outside Options: A Direct Measure of Worker Bargaining Power
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Benjamin Pugsley, University of Notre Dame Petr Sedlacek, University of Oxford Vincent Sterk, University College London The Nature of Firm Growth
4:30 pm	Benjamin Hartung, University of Bonn Philip Jung, University of Bonn Moritz Kuhn, University of Mannheim What hides behind the German Labor Market Miracle?
5:30 pm	Adjourn
Friday, July 20
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am	Guillaume Vuillemey, HEC Paris Etienne Wasmer, Sciences Po Paris Frictional Unemployment with Stochastic Bubbles
9:30 am	Kevin Fawcett, University of Toronto Shouyong Shi, Queen's University Learning, On-the-Job Search and Wage-Tenure Contracts
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	George-Levi Gayle, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER Andrew J. Shephard, University of Pennsylvania Optimal Taxation, Marriage, Home Production,and Family Labour Supply
12:00 pm	Naoki Aizawa, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER Soojin Kim, Georgia State University Serena Rhee, Chung-Ang University Labor Market Screening and Social Insurance Program Design for the Disabled
1:00 pm	Lunch and Adjourn