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, Center for Research in Economics and Statistics

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, Simon Fraser University
Amartya Lahiri, University of British Columbia

Convergence Across Castes (slides)
4:15 pm
Adjourn