SI 2021 Macro Perspectives

Philipp Kircher, Guido Menzio, and Giuseppe Moscarini, Organizers

July 21-23, 2021

on Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Wednesday, July 21
10:50 am
Welcome
11:00 am
Rachel Ngai, London School of Economics
Claudia Olivetti, Dartmouth College and NBER
Barbara Petrongolo, University of Oxford

Structural Transformation and U-Shaped Female Employment (slides)
11:40 am
Break
11:50 am
Thibaut Lamadon, University of Chicago and NBER
Jeremy Lise, University of Minnesota
Costas Meghir, Yale University and NBER
Jean-Marc Robin, University College London

Production, Amenities and Search Frictions with Two Sided Heterogeneity (slides)
12:30 pm
Break
1:10 pm
Masao Fukui, Boston University

A Theory of Wage Rigidity and Unemployment Fluctuations with On-the-Job Search
1:50 pm
Break
2:00 pm
Jesper Bagger, University of Edinburgh
François Fontaine, Paris School of Economics
Manolis Galenianos, Royal Holloway, University of London
Ija Trapeznikova, Royal Holloway, University of London

Vacancies, Employment Outcomes and Firm Growth: Evidence from Denmark
2:40 pm
Adjourn
Thursday, July 22
11:00 am
Ruediger Bachmann, University of Notre Dame
Christian Bayer, University of Bonn
Heiko Stüber, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Felix Wellschmied, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Monopsony Makes Firms not only Small but also Unproductive: Why East Germany has not Converged
11:40 am
Break
11:50 am
Victoria Gregory, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Guido Menzio, New York University and NBER
David G. Wiczer, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta & IZA

The Alpha Beta Gamma of the Labor Market
12:30 pm
Break
1:10 pm
Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, University of Essex
Alex J. Clymo, University of Essex
Melvyn Coles, University of Essex

Equilibrium Job Turnover and the Business Cycle
1:50 pm
Break
2:00 pm
Antoine Bertheau, Norwegian School of Economics
Simon Jäger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Pïerre Cahuc, Sciences Po
Rune M. Vejlin, Aarhus University

Turnover Costs Are Large: Evidence from Unexpected Worker Separations
2:40 pm
Adjourn
Friday, July 23
11:00 am
Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER
Kazuatsu Shimizu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yona Rubinstein, London School of Economics

Task Based Discrimination (slides)
11:40 am
Break
11:50 am
Serdar Birinci, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Kurt Gerrard See, Bank of Canada
Shu Lin Wee, Bank of Canada

Job Applications and Labor Market Flows (slides)
12:30 pm
Break
1:10 pm
Joachim Hubmer, University of Pennsylvania
Pascual Restrepo, Boston University and NBER

Not a Typical Firm: The Joint Dynamics of Firms, Labor Shares, and Capital–Labor Substitution (slides)
1:50 pm
Break
2:00 pm
Simon Mongey, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER
Chris Edmond, University of Melbourne

Unbundling Labor (slides)
2:40 pm
Adjourn