SI 2022 Behavioral Macro

Andrew Caplin and Michael Woodford, Organizers

July 15, 2022

Skyline Room

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, July 15
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am
Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER
Nicola Gennaioli, Bocconi University
Pedro Bordalo, University of Oxford
Giovanni Burro, Bocconi University
Katherine B. Coffman, Harvard University

Imagining the Future: Memory, Simulation and Beliefs about Covid
Discussant: Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
9:30 am
Benjamin Loos, University of New South Wales
Steffen Meyer, Aarhus University
Michaela Pagel, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER

Consumption out of Fictitious Capital Gains and Selective Inattention
Discussant: Chen Lian, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am
Jamie Hentall-MacCuish, HEC Paris

Costly Attention and Retirement
Discussant: Andrew Caplin, New York University and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
Joel P. Flynn, Yale University
Karthik Sastry, Princeton University and NBER

The Macroeconomics of Narratives
Discussant: Robert J. Shiller, Yale University and NBER
2:00 pm
Break
2:30 pm
Laura V. Gati, European Central Bank

Monetary Policy & Anchored Expectations - An Endogenous Gain Learning Model
Discussant: Bruce Preston, University of Melbourne
3:30 pm
Nicholas C. Barberis, Yale University and NBER
Lawrence J. Jin, Cornell University and NBER

Model-free and Model-based Learning as Joint Drivers of Investor Behavior
Discussant: Michael Woodford, Columbia University and NBER
4:30 pm
Adjourn