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

Conference Code of Conduct

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
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, Harvard University
Laura Pilossoph, Duke University
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, Princeton 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, University of Minnesota
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