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	Investment, Innovation, and Financial Frictions
9:20 am	Break
9:30 am	The Impact of Social Insurance on Household Debt
10:20 am	Break
10:40 am	Redistribution and the Wage-price Spirals: Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy
11:30 am	Break
11:40 am	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	On the Size of Stimulus Checks: How Much is too Much?
9:20 am	Break
9:30 am	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	Are Inflationary Shocks Regressive? A Feasible Set Approach
11:30 am	Break
11:40 am	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	Spillover Effects of Employment Protection
9:20 am	Break
9:30 am	Why Firms Lay Off Workers instead of Cutting Wages: Evidence from Matched Survey-Administrative Data (slides)
10:20 am	Break
10:40 am	Causes and Consequences of Student-College Mismatch
11:30 am	Break
11:40 am	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	Shopping, Demand Composition, and Equilibrium Prices
9:20 am	Break
9:30 am	Job Search, Wages, and Inflation (slides)
10:20 am	Break
10:40 am	The Colocation Friction: Dual-Earner Job Search and Labor Market Outcomes
11:30 am	Break
11:40 am	Subjective Earnings Risk
12:30 pm	Adjourn and Lunch