SI 2023 Micro Data and Macro Models

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

July 17-20, 2023

Longfellow Room

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

Monday, July 17
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am	Pablo Ottonello, Brown University and NBER Thomas Winberry, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Investment, Innovation, and Financial Frictions
9:20 am	Break
9:30 am	Gideon Bornstein, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Sasha Indarte, University of Pennsylvania The Impact of Social Insurance on Household Debt
10:20 am	Break
10:40 am	Xavier Ragot, Sciences Po Francois Le Grand, ESSEC Business School Thomas Bourany, Columbia University Redistribution and the Wage-price Spirals: Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy
11:30 am	Break
11:40 am	Anmol Bhandari, University of Minnesota and NBER Thomas Bourany, Columbia University David Evans, University of Oregon Mikhail Golosov, The University of Chicago and NBER A Perturbational Approach for Approximating Heterogeneous-Agent Models
12:30 pm	Adjourn and Lunch
Tuesday, July 18
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am	Martin Beraja, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Nathan Zorzi, Dartmouth College On the Size of Stimulus Checks: How Much is too Much?
9:20 am	Break
9:30 am	Elena Andreou, University of Cyprus Maria Demetriadou, University of Cyprus Andreas Tryphonides, University of Cyprus The Cross Section of Household Preferences and the Marginal Propensity to Consume: Evidence from High Frequency Data (slides)
10:20 am	Break
10:40 am	Felipe N. Del Canto, Harvard University John R. Grigsby, Princeton University and NBER Eric Qian, Johns Hopkins University Conor Walsh, Columbia University and NBER Are Inflationary Shocks Regressive? A Feasible Set Approach
11:30 am	Break
11:40 am	Alan Olivi, University College London Vincent Sterk, University College London Dajana Xhani, Tilburg University Optimal Monetary Policy during a Cost-of-Living Crisis (slides)
12:30 pm	Adjourn and Lunch
Wednesday, July 19
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am	Pïerre Cahuc, Sciences Po Pauline Carry, Princeton University Franck P. Malherbet, THEMA - CNRS Pedro S. Martins, Nova School of Business and Economics Spillover Effects of Employment Protection
9:20 am	Break
9:30 am	Antoine Bertheau, Banque de France Marianna Kudlyak, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Birthe Larsen, Copenhagen Business School Morten Bennedsen, INSEAD Why Firms Lay Off Workers instead of Cutting Wages: Evidence from Matched Survey-Administrative Data (slides)
10:20 am	Break
10:40 am	Lutz Hendricks, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tatyana Koreshkova, Concordia University Oksana Leukhina, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Causes and Consequences of Student-College Mismatch
11:30 am	Break
11:40 am	Elisa Rubbo, The University of Chicago and NBER Fragmentation of Production and the Wage Distribution
12:30 pm	Adjourn and Lunch
Thursday, July 20
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Morning joint with Macro Perspectives
8:30 am	Lukas Nord, University of Pennsylvania Shopping, Demand Composition, and Equilibrium Prices
9:20 am	Break
9:30 am	Laura Pilossoph, Duke University and NBER Jane M. Ryngaert, University of Notre Dame Job Search, Wages, and Inflation (slides)
10:20 am	Break
10:40 am	Hanno Foerster, Boston College Robert Ulbricht, Boston College The Colocation Friction: Dual-Earner Job Search and Labor Market Outcomes
11:30 am	Break
11:40 am	Andrew Caplin, New York University and NBER Victoria Gregory, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Eungik Lee, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Søren Leth-Petersen, University of Copenhagen Johan Sæverud, University of Copenhagen Subjective Earnings Risk
12:30 pm	Adjourn and Lunch