SI 2019 Macro Perspectives

Philipp Kircher, Guido Menzio, and Giuseppe Moscarini, Organizers

July 15-19, 2019

Longfellow Room

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

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 15
12:00 n
Lunch
1:00 pm
David W. Berger, Duke University and NBER
Kyle F. Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota and NBER
Simon Mongey, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER

Labor Market Power
2:00 pm
Gregor Jarosch, Duke University and NBER
Jan Sebastian Nimczik, ESMT Berlin
Isaac Sorkin, Stanford University and NBER

Granular Search, Market Structure, and Wages
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Ilse Lindenlaub, Yale University and NBER
Fabien Postel-Vinay, University College London

The Worker-Job Surplus
4:30 pm
Chao Fu, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Shoya Ishimaru, University of Wisconsin - Madison
John Kennan, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER

Government Expenditure on the Public Education System
5:30 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 16
12:00 n
Lunch
1:00 pm
Robert E. Hall, Stanford University and NBER
Marianna Kudlyak, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Job-Finding and Job-Losing: A Comprehensive Model of Heterogeneous Individual Labor-Market Dynamics
2:00 pm
Andreas I. Mueller, University of Zurich
Johannes Spinnewijn, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Giorgio Topa, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Job Seekers' Perceptions and Employment Prospects: Heterogeneity, Duration Dependence and Bias
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Benjamin Lester, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Giorgio Topa, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
David Rivers, Western University

Job Referrals and Hiring Frictions
4:30 pm
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Federico Mandelman, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Yang Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Francesco Zanetti, University of Oxford

Search Complementarities, Aggregate Fluctuations, and Fiscal Policy
5:30 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 17
12:00 n
Lunch
1:00 pm
Michael W. Elsby, The University of Edinburgh
Axel N.O. Gottfries, The University of Edinburgh

Firm Dynamics, On-the-Job Search and Labor Market Fluctuations
2:00pm
Titan M. Alon, University of California, San Diego
Sena E. Coskun Dalgic, University of Nuremberg
Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University

Trends in Work and Leisure: It's a Family Affair
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Simon Jäger, Princeton University and NBER
Benjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Josef Zweimüller, University of Zurich

Marginal Jobs and Job Surplus: A Test of the Efficiency of Separations
4:30 pm
André Kurmann, Drexel University
Erika McEntarfer, Stanford University

Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in the United States: New Evidence from Worker-Firm Linked Data
5:30 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Thursday, July 18
12:00 n
Lunch
1:00 pm
Limor Golan, Washington University in St. Louis
Jonathan James, California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
Carl Sanders, Washington University in St. Louis

What Explains the Racial Gaps in Task Assignment and Pay Over the Life Cycle?
2:00 pm
Iacopo Morchio Mr, University of Bristol
Christian A. Moser, Columbia University and NBER

The Gender Gap: Micro Sources and Macro Consequences
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Princeton University and NBER
Shengxing Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business

Intangibles, Inequality and Stagnation
4:30 pm
Fabiano Schivardi, Luiss University
Tom G. Schmitz, Queen Mary University of London

The IT Revolution and Southern Europe's Two Lost Decades
5:30 pm
Adjourn
Friday, July 19
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am
Satoshi Tanaka, The University of Queensland
Lawrence F. Warren, U.S. Census Bureau
David G. Wiczer, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Earnings Growth, Job Flows and Churn
9:30 am
Jesper Bagger, The University of Edinburgh
Manolis Galenianos, Royal Holloway, University of London (RH)
Ija Trapeznikova, Royal Holloway, University of London (RH)

On the Dynamics of Firm Employment
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am
Maximiliano Dvorkin, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Alexander Monge-Naranjo, European University Institute

On the Dynamics of Occupational Choice, Human Capital and Inequality
12:00 n
Leo Kaas, Goethe University Frankfurt

Block-Recursive Equilibria in Heterogeneous Agent Models
1:00 pm
Lunch and Adjourn