SI 2024 Micro Data and Macro Models

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

July 15-18, 2024

Longfellow BC

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 15
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am
Simon Mongey, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER
Michael E. Waugh, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER

Pricing Inequality
9:20 am
Break
9:30 am
David Argente, Yale University and NBER
Sara Moreira, Northwestern University and NBER
Ezra Oberfield, Cornell University and NBER
Venky Venkateswaran, New York University and NBER

Scalable Expertise
10:20 am
Break
10:40 am
Mons Chan, Queen's University
Guangbin Hong, University of Chicago
Joachim Hubmer, University of Pennsylvania
Serdar Ozkan, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Sergio Salgado, University of Pennsylvania

Scalable vs. Productive Technologies
11:30 am
Break
11:40 am
Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University and NBER
Matthew Smith, Department of the Treasury
Owen M. Zidar, Princeton University and NBER
Eric Zwick, University of Chicago and NBER

Tax Policy and Investment in a Global Economy
12:30 pm
Adjourn and Lunch
Tuesday, July 16
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am
Adrien Auclert, Stanford University and NBER
Matthew Rognlie, Northwestern University and NBER
Ludwig Straub, Harvard University and NBER
Tomas Tapak, Stanford University

When do Endogenous Portfolios Matter for HANK?
9:20 am
Break
9:30 am
Bence Bardóczy, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Gideon Bornstein, University of Pennsylvania
Chiara Maggi, International Monetary Fund
Sergio Salgado, University of Pennsylvania

Monopsony Power and the Transmission of Monetary Policy
10:20 am
Break
10:40 am
Peter Ganong, University of Chicago and NBER
Pascal J. Noel, University of Chicago and NBER
Christina Patterson, University of Chicago and NBER
Joseph S. Vavra, University of Chicago and NBER
Alex Weinberg, University of Chicago

Earnings Instability
11:30 am
Break
11:40 am
Alexander Bick, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Adam Blandin, Vanderbilt University
Richard Rogerson, Princeton University and NBER

Hours Worked and Lifetime Earnings Inequality (slides)
12:30 pm
Adjourn and Lunch
Wednesday, July 17
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am
Joseph S. Briggs, Goldman Sachs
Ciaran Rogers, HEC Paris
Christopher Tonetti, Stanford University and NBER

Risky Insurance: Life-cycle Insurance Portfolio Choice with Incomplete Markets (slides)
9:20 am
Break
9:30 am
Andres Drenik, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Juan Herreño, University of California, San Diego
Pablo Ottonello, University of Maryland and NBER
Aimé Bierdel, Columbia University

Illiquid Lemon Markets and the Macroeconomy
10:20 am
Break
10:40 am
Vladimir Asriyan, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Alexandre N. Kohlhas, University of Oxford

The Macroeconomics of Data
11:30 am
Break
11:40 am
Masao Fukui, Boston University
Niels Joachim Gormsen, University of Chicago and NBER
Kilian Huber, University of Chicago and NBER

Sticky Discount Rates
12:30 pm
Adjourn and Lunch
Thursday, July 18
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:29 am
Joint morning session with Macro Perspectives
8:30 am
Serdar Birinci, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Fatih Karahan, Amazon
Yusuf Mercan, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Kurt Gerrard T. See, Bank of Canada

Labor Market Shocks and Monetary Policy
9:20 am
Break
9:30 am
Mary Ann Bronson, Georgetown University
Deniz Sanin, University of South Carolina

Optimal Parental Leave Policy Design
10:20 am
Break
10:40 am
Dean Corbae, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Andrew Glover, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Michael Nattinger, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Equilibrium Evictions (slides)
11:30 am
Break
11:40 am
Joel P. Flynn, Yale University
George Nikolakoudis, Princeton University
Karthik Sastry, Princeton University and NBER

A Theory of Supply Function Choice and Aggregate Supply
12:30 pm
Adjourn and Lunch