SI 2022 Income Distribution and Macroeconomics

Roland Bénabou, Raquel Fernández, and Oded Galor, Organizers

July 19-20, 2022

University Room BC

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Tuesday, July 19
12:00 pm	Lunch
	Chair/Moderator: Amartya Lahiri, University of British Columbia
1:00 pm	Alan J. Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Daniel Murphy, University of Virginia Demand Stimulus as Social Policy
1:45 pm	Elisa Giannone, Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) Corina Boar, New York University and NBER Consumption Segregation
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Diego Daruich, University of Southern California Eric Chyn, University of Texas at Austin and NBER An Equilibrium Analysis of the Effects of Neighborhood-based Interventions on Children
3:30 pm	Thomas Blanchet, University of California, Berkeley Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Real-Time Inequality (slides)
4:15 pm	Adjourn
Wednesday, July 20
12:00 pm	Lunch
	Chair/Moderator: Giacomo Ponzetto, CREI
1:00 pm	Martin Beraja, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Andrew Kao, Harvard University David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER Noam Yuchtman, University of Oxford AI-tocracy
1:45 pm	Federico Boffa, Free University of Bolzano Vincenzo Mollisi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto, CREI Do Incompetent Politicians Breed Populist Voters? Evidence from Italian Municipalities (slides)
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Felipe Valencia Caicedo, University of British Columbia Juan Felipe Riano Rodriguez, Georgetown University Collateral Damage: The Legacy of the Secret War in Laos (slides)
3:30 pm	Viktoria Hnatkovska, University of British Columbia Chenyu Hou, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Amartya Lahiri, University of British Columbia Convergence Across Castes (slides)
4:15 pm	Adjourn