SI 2019 Behavioral Macro

Andrew Caplin and Michael Woodford, Organizers

July 12, 2019

Skyline Room

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

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, July 12
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am
Pedro Bordalo, University of Oxford
Nicola Gennaioli, Bocconi University
Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER
Stephen J. Terry, University of Michigan and NBER

Real Credit Cycles
Discussant: Alp Simsek, Yale University and NBER
9:30 am
Arna Olafsson, Copenhagen Business School
Michaela Pagel, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER

The Retirement-Consumption Puzzle: New Evidence from Personal Finances
Discussant: Pascal J. Noel, University of Chicago and NBER
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am
Jessica Wachter, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Michael J. Kahana, University of Pennsylvania

A Retrieved-Context Theory of Financial Decisions (slides)
Discussant: Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch
Afternoon joint with Monetary Economics in the Charles Room
1:00 pm
Charles Suites
George-Marios Angeletos, Northwestern University and NBER
Karthik Sastry, Princeton University and NBER

Managing Expectations without Rational Expectations (slides)
Discussant: Gauti B. Eggertsson, Brown University and NBER
2:00 pm
Break
2:30 pm
Charles Suites
Stefano Eusepi, University of Texas at Austin
Marc Giannoni, Barclays Corporate and Investment Bank
Bruce Preston, University of Melbourne

On the Limits of Monetary Policy
Discussant: Athanasios Orphanides, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3:30 pm
Charles Suites
Stefan Nagel, University of Chicago and NBER
Zhengyang Xu, City University of Hong Kong

Asset Pricing with Fading Memory
Discussant: Stefano Giglio, Yale University and NBER
4:30 pm
Adjourn