SI 2022 Micro Data and Macro Models

Erik Hurst, Greg Kaplan, and Giovanni L. Violante, Organizers

July 18-21, 2022

Longfellow Room

Format: 50 min per paper including questions, with a 10 min break between papers

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 18
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am
Edmund Crawley, Federal Reserve Board
Martin Blomhoff Holm, University of Oslo
Håkon Tretvoll, Statistics Norway

A Parsimonious Model of Idiosyncratic Income (slides)
9:20 am
Break
9:30 am
Greg Kaplan, University of Chicago and NBER
Giovanni L. Violante, Princeton University and NBER

The Marginal Propensity to Consume in Heterogeneous Agent Models
10:20 am
Break
10:30 am
Gizem Kosar, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Davide Melcangi, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Laura Pilossoph, Duke University
David G. Wiczer, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta & IZA

Stimulus through Insurance: The Marginal Propensity to Repay Debt
11:20 am
Break
11:30 am
Jacob Orchard, Federal Reserve Board
Valerie A. Ramey, Stanford University and NBER
Johannes Wieland, University of California, San Diego and NBER

Micro MPCs and Macro Counterfactuals: The Case of the 2008 Rebates
12:20 pm
Adjourn and Lunch
Tuesday, July 19
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am
Kyle P. Dempsey, Ohio State University
Felicia Ionescu, Federal Reserve Board

Borrowing Premia in Unsecured Credit Markets
9:20 am
Break
9:30 am
Boaz Abramson, Columbia University

The Welfare Effects of Eviction and Homelessness Policies (slides)
10:20 am
Break
10:30 am
Jeremy Greenwood, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Karen Kopecky, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Nezih Guner, CEMFI

The Downward Spiral
11:20 am
Break
11:30 am
Andres Drenik, University of Texas at Austin
Ryan Kim, Johns Hopkins University
Hassan Afrouzi, Columbia University and NBER

Growing by the Masses: Revisiting the Link between Firm Size and Market Power
12:20 pm
Adjourn and Lunch
Wednesday, July 20
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am
Eduardo Dávila, Yale University and NBER
Andreas Schaab, Princeton University

Welfare Assessments with Heterogeneous Individuals
9:20 am
Break
9:30 am
Andreas Fagereng, BI Norwegian Business School
Matthieu Gomez, Columbia University
Émilien Gouin-Bonenfant, Columbia University
Martin Blomhoff Holm, University of Oslo
Benjamin Moll, London School of Economics
Gisle Natvik, BI Norwegian Business School

Asset-Price Redistribution
10:20 am
Break
10:30 am
Beatriz Gonzalez, Banco de España
Galo Nuño, Banco de España
Dominik Thaler, Banco de España
Silvia Albrizio, International Monetary Fund

Firm Heterogeneity, Capital Misallocation and Optimal Monetary Policy
11:20 am
Break
11:30 am
Alisdair McKay, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Christian K. Wolf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Optimal Policy Rules in HANK
12:20 pm
Adjourn and Lunch
Thursday, July 21
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Joint Session with Macro Perspectives
8:30 am
Kunal Sangani, Harvard University

Markups Across the Income Distribution: Measurement and Implications (slides)
9:20 am
Break
9:30 am
Shubhdeep Deb, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Jan Eeckhout, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Aseem Patel, Sciences Po, Paris
Lawrence Warren, U.S. Census Bureau

What Drives Wage Stagnation: Monopsony or Monopoly?
10:20 am
Break
10:30 am
Erin L. Wolcott, Middlebury College

Did Racist Labor Policies Reverse Equality Gains for Everyone?
11:20 am
Break
11:30 am
Alexander Bick, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Adam Blandin, Vanderbilt University
Karel Mertens, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Work from Home Before and After the COVID-19 Outbreak
12:20 pm
Adjourn and Lunch