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	Why Do Spatial Wage Gaps Persist? Evidence from the Enduring Divide between East and West Germany
2:00 pm	Agglomeration and Sorting (slides)
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	The Benefits of Labor Mobility in a Currency Union
4:30 pm	Labor Market Flows and Development
5:30 pm	Adjourn
Tuesday, July 17
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Changing Business Cycles: The Role of Women's Employment (slides)
2:00 pm	The Role in the Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath of the Collapse and Restoration of Confidence (slides)
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Myopia and Anchoring
4:30 pm	Labor Market Search Without Rational Expectations
5:30 pm	Adjourn
Wednesday, July 18
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Learning from Coworkers
2:00 pm	Knowledge Diffusion in the Workplace
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	High Wage Workers Work for High Wage Firms
4:30 pm	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	Firm Wages in a Frictional Labor Market
2:00 pm	Wages and Outside Options: A Direct Measure of Worker Bargaining Power
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	The Nature of Firm Growth
4:30 pm	What hides behind the German Labor Market Miracle?
5:30 pm	Adjourn
Friday, July 20
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am	Frictional Unemployment with Stochastic Bubbles
9:30 am	Learning, On-the-Job Search and Wage-Tenure Contracts
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Optimal Taxation, Marriage, Home Production,and Family Labour Supply
12:00 pm	Labor Market Screening and Social Insurance Program Design for the Disabled
1:00 pm	Lunch and Adjourn