MONDAY, JULY 18:

8:30 am

PRCR

Dan Sichel, Federal Reserve Board
Prices of Nails and Screws since 1700: What Can We Learn from Prices of Quotidian Products?

 

 

 

9:00 am

EFACR

Romain Ranciere, Paris School of Economics
Michael Kumhof, International Monetary Fund
Inequality, Leverage and Crises

 

 

 

 

POL

Filipe Campante, Harvard University
Davin Chor, Singapore Management University
The People Want the Fall of the Regime: Schooling, Political Protest and the Economy

 

 

 

9:45 am

EFACR

Damiano Sandri, International Monetary Fund
Fabian Valencia, International Monetary Fund
Balance-Sheet Shocks and Recapitalizations

 

 

 

 

PRCR

Mick Silver, International Monetary Fund
Residential Property Price Indices: Does Measurement Matter?

 

 

 

10:15 am

POL

William Easterly, New York University and NBER
Benevolent Autocrats

 

 

 

10:45 am

EFACR

Christopher D. Carroll, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
Jiri Slacalek, European Central Bank
Martin Sommer, International Monetary Fund
Wealth Effects, Credit Supply, and Precautionary Saving

 

 

 

11:00 am

PRCR

W. Erwin Diewert, University of British Columbia and NBER
Alternative Approaches to Measuring House Price Inflation

 

 

 

11:15 am

POL

Eric Chaney, Harvard University
Revolt on the Nile: Economic Shocks, Religion and Political Influence

 

 

 

11:30 am

EFACR

Edouard Challe, École Polytechnique
Xavier Ragot, PSE
Precautionary Saving over the Business Cycle

 

 

 

1:00 pm

PRCR

Alberto Cavallo, MIT
Argentina: Inflation and Lies

 

 

 

 

EFRSW

Roberto Pinheiro, University of Colorado at Boulder
Spatial Sorting: Why New York, Los Angeles and Detroit Attract the Greatest Minds as Well as the Unskilled
(Joint with Jan Eeckhout and Kurt Schmidheiny)

 

 

 

 

EFEL

Arvind Krishnamurthy, Northwestern University and NBER
Stefan Nagel, Stanford University and NBER
Dmitry Orlov, Stanford University
Sizing up Repo

 

 

 

1:15 pm

POL

Yann Algan, Science Po
Thierry Mayer, Sciences Po
Mathias Thoenig, Université de Lausanne
The Economic Incentives of Cultural Transmission

 

 

 

1:50 pm

EFEL

Haifang Huang, University of Alberta
Eric Stephens, Department of Economics, University of Alberta
From Housing Bust to Credit Crunch: Evidence from Small Businesses Loans

 

 

 

2:00 pm

EFRSW

Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University and NBER
Business Cycles with Endogenous Uncertainty
(Joint with Ruediger Bachmann)

 

 

 

2:15 pm

PRCR

Anne Hall, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Geographic Variation and the Adoption and Diffusion of Medical Technology

 

 

 

2:30 pm

POL

Ruben Durante, Brown University
Giovanna Labartino, Bocconi University
Roberto Perotti, Bocconi University and NBER
Academic Dynasties

 

 

 

2:55 pm

EFEL

Warren Hrung, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Jason Seligman, The Ohio State University
Responses to the Financial Crisis, Treasury Debt, and the Impact on Short-Term Money Markets

 

 

 

3:30 pm

PRCR

Ana Aizcorbe, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Ralph Bradley, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Bread Herauf, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Richard Kane, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Eli Liebman, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Sarah Pack, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Lyubov Rozental, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Alternative Price Indexes for Medical Care:  Evidence from the MEPS Survey

 

 

 

 

EFRSW

Robert Hall, Stanford University and NBER
Clashing Theories of Unemployment

 

 

 

 

POL

Brian Knight, Brown University and NBER
State Gun Policy and Cross-State Externalities: Evidence from Crime Gun Tracing

 

 

 

3:45 pm

EFEL

Carolin Pflueger, Harvard University
Luis M. Viceira, Harvard University and NBER
An Empirical Decomposition of Risk and Liquidity in Nominal and Inflation-Indexed Government Bonds

 

 

 

4:00 pm

PRCR

Abraham Dunn, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Adam Shapiro, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Eli Leibman, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Geographic Medical Expenditure Index: Implications for Productivity in Private Health Care Markets

 

 

 

4:30 pm

EFRSW

Randall Wright, University of Wisconsin at Madison and NBER
A Coasian Theory of Household Formation
(Joint with Ken Burdett, Mei Dong and Ling Sun)

 

TUESDAY, JULY 19:

 

8:30 am

PRCR

Eric J. Bartelsman, VU University Amsterdam
Christopher J. Kurz, Federal Reserve Board
Zoltan Wolf, VU University Amsterdam
Using Census Microdata to Forecast US Aggregate Productivity

 

 

 

9:00 am

EFACR

Yuliya Demyanyk, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Dmytro Hryshko, University of Alberta
Maria Luengo-Prado, Northeastern University
Bent Sorensen, University of Houston
Moving to a Job: The Role of Home Equity, Debt, and Access to Credit

 

 

 

 

POL

Nathan Nunn, Harvard University and NBER
Nancy Qian, Yale University and NBER
Aiding Conflict: the Unintended Conseqences of U.S. Food Aid on Civil War

 

 

 

9:45 am

EFACR

Kurt Mitman, University of Pennsylvania
Macroeconomic Effects of Bankruptcy and Foreclosure Policies

 

 

 

 

PRCR

David Byrne, Federal Reserve Board
Brian Kovak, Carnegie Mellon University
Ryan Michaels, University of Rochester
Measuring Import Price Inflation: New Evidence and Lessons from the Semiconductor Industry

 

 

 

10:15 am

POL

Carlos Berdejo, Loyola University
Daniel Chen, Duke University
Priming Ideology? Electoral Cycles without Electoral Incentives Among US Judges

 

 

 

10:45 am

EFACR

Roc Armenter, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Viktoria Hnatkovska, Georgetown University
The Rise of Corporate Savings

 

 

 

11:00 am

PRCR

D.S. Prasada Rao, University of Queensland
Alicia N. Rambaldi, University of Queensland
Howard E. Doran, University of Queensland
Complete Panels of Purchasing Power Parities: Analytical Properties and Empirical Results

 

 

 

11:15 am

POL

Stefano DellaVigna, University of California at Berkeley
Ruben Enikolopov
, New Economic School
Vera Mironova, University of Maryland
Maria Petrova, New Economic School
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya,
Paris School of Economics
Unintended Media Effcets in a Conflict Enviromnent: Serbian Radio and Croatian Nationalism

 

 

 

11:30 am

EFACR

Greg Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania
Giovanni L. Violante, New York University and NBER
A Model of the Consumption Response to Fiscal Stimulus Payments

 

 

 

1:00 pm

PRCR

Marcel Timmer, University of Groningen
Abdul Azeez Erumban, University of Groningen
Bart Los, University of Groningen
Gaaitzen de Vries, University of Groningen
Robert Stehrer, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies
Slicing Up Global Value Chains: The Role of China

 

 

 

 

EFEL

Hengjie Ai, Duke University
Mariano Max. Croce, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kai Li, Duke University
Toward a Quantitative General Equilibrium Asset Pricing Model with Intangible Capital

 

 

 

 

EFRSW

Gianluca Violante, New York University
Measuring Mismatch in the US Labor Market
(Joint with Aysegul Sahin, Joseph Song, and Giorgio Topa)

 

 

 

1:15 pm

POL

Robin Burgess, London School of Economics
Matthew Hansen, South Dakota State University
Benjamin Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Peter Potapov, South Dakota State University
Stefanie Sieber, London School of Economics
The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics

 

 

 

1:30 pm

EFBGZ

Philippe Aghion, Harvard University and NBER
Ufuk Akcigit, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Julia Cagé, Harvard University
William R. Kerr, Harvard University and NBER
Taxation, Corruption, and Growth

 

 

 

2:00 pm

EFRSW

Barbara Petrongolo, London School of Economics
How Local Are Labor Markets? Evidence from a Spatial Job Search Model
(Joint with Alan Manning)

 

 

 

2:15 pm

PRCR

Charles R. Hulten, University of Maryland and NBER
Janet X. Hao, The Conference  Board
Lixing Li, Peking University
Structural Change, Innovation, and the Growth of the Chinese Economy

 

 

 

2:30 pm

POL

Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago and NBER
Matilde Bombardini, University of British Columbia and NBER
Francesco Trebbi, University of British Columbia and NBER
Is it Whom You Know or What You Know? An Empirical Assessment of the Lobbying Process

 

 

 

 

EFBGZ

Russell Cooper, European University Institute and NBER
Hubert Kempf, Banque de France
Deposit Insurance without Commitment: Wall St. Versus Main St.

 

 

 

2:55 pm

EFEL

Tommaso Monacelli, Bocconi University
Vincenzo Quadrini, University of Southern California and NBER
Antonella Trigari, Universita Bocconi
Financial Markets and Unemployment

 

 

 

3:30 pm

PRCR

Sun Ling Wang, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Fred Gale, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Francis Tuan, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Agapi Somwaru, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Recent Trend in China’s Agricultural Productivity Growth at Province Level –  the Impact of the Infrastructure Investment and Policy Reform in China

 

 

 

 

POL

Paola Conconi, ECARES
Giovanni Facchini, Erasmus University
Maurizio Zanardi, ECARES
Policymakers’ Horizon and Trade Reforms

 

 

 

 

EFRSW

Ludo Visschers, Simon Fraser University
Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle
(Joint with Carlos Carrillo-Tudela)

 

 

 

3:45 pm

EFEL

Juan Carlos Gozzi Valdez, Brown University
Martin R. Goetz, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Liquidity Shocks, Local Banks, and Economic Activity: Evidence from the 2007-2009 Crisis

 

 

 

 

EFBGZ

Hans A. Holter, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

Accounting for Cross-Country Differences in Intergenerational Earning Persistence

 

 

 

4:30 pm

EFRSW

Thijs van Rens, CREI and Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Structural Unemployment
(Joint with Benedikt Herz)

 

 

 

4:45 pm

EFBGZ

Farzad Saidi, New York University
Networks, Finance, and Development: Evidence from Hunter-Gatherers

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20:

 

 

 

8:30 am

PRMP

Hale Utar, University of Colorado at Boulder
Luis B. Torres Ruiz, Banco de Mexico
International Competition and Industrial Evolution: Evidence from the Impact of Chinese Competition on Mexican Maquiladoras

 

 

 

9:00 am

EFACR

Greg Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania
Jose-Victor Rios-Rull, University of Minnesota and NBER
Business Cycles and Household Formation: The Micro v. the Macro Elasticity

 

 

 

 

EFBGZ

Alberto Alesina, Harvard University and NBER
Paola Giuliano, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
Nathan Nunn, Harvard University and NBER
The Origins of Gender Role: Women and the Plough

 

 

 

9:45 am

EFACR

Orazio Attanasio, University College London and NBER
Hamish Low, University of Cambridge
Virginia Sanchez Marcos, Universidad de Cantabria
Aggregating Elasticities: Intensive and Extensive Margins of Female Labor Supply

 

 

 

 

PRMP

Devesh Raval, University of Chicago
Estimation of a CES Production Function with Labor Augmenting Productivity

 

 

 

10:15 am

EFGBZ

Yann Algan, Sciences Po
Pierre Cahuc, Ecole Polytechnique
Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER
Teaching Practices and Social Capital

 

 

 

10:45 am

EFACR

Mark Huggett, Georgetown University
Greg Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania
The Money Value of a Man

 

 

 

11:00 am

PRMP

Nicola Gennaioli, CREI
Rafael La Porta, Dartmouth College and NBER
Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, EDHEC Business School and NBER
Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER
Human Capital and Regional Development

 

 

 

11:30 am

EFACR

Stefan Hoderlein, University of Mannheim
Lars Nesheim, University College London
Anna Simoni, Universita Bocconi
Heterogeneous Euler Equations: A Semi-parametric Structural Approach

 

 

 

 

EFBGZ

Eugenio Proto, Warwick University
Aldo Rustichini,
University of Minnesota
The Hump-Shaped Relation Between Income and Life Satisfaction

 

 

 

1:00 pm

EFEL

Francisco J. Buera, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
Benjamin Moll, Princeton University
Aggregate Implications of a Credit Crunch

 

 

 

 

EFRSW

Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Identifying Technology Shocks with Heterogeneous Inputs
(Joint with Luigi Bocola and Marcus Hagedorn)

 

 

 

1:15 pm

PRMP

John Asker and Allan Collard-Wexler, New York University and NBER
Jan De Loecker, Princeton University and NBER
Productivity Volatility and Misallocation

 

 

 

1:30 pm

EFRSW

Thomas Chaney, University of Chicago and NBER
The Network Structure of International Trade

 

 

 

1:50 pm

EFEL

Tarek Hassan, University of Chicago and NBER
Thomas Mertens, New York University
The Social Cost of Near-Rational Investment

 

 

 

2:00 pm

EFRSW

Eric Sims, University of Notre Dame
Reallocation and the Changing Nature of Economic Fluctuations
(Joint with Julio Garin and Michael Pries

 

 

 

2:30 pm

PRMP

Gita Gopinath, Harvard University and NBER
Brent Neiman, University of Chicago and NBER
Trade Adjustment and Productivity in Large Crises

 

 

 

2:45 pm

EFBGZ

Robert E. Lucas, University of Chicago and NBER
Benjamin Moll, Princeton University
Knowledge Growth and the Allocation of Time

 

 

 

2:55 pm

EFEL

Max Croce, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thien Nguyen, University of Pennsylvania
Lukas Schmid, Duke University
Fiscal Policy and the Distribution of Consumption Risk

 

 

 

3:30 pm

EFRSW

William Hawkins, University of Rochester
Do Large Firm Bargaining Models Amplify and Propagate Technology Shocks?

 

 

 

3:45 pm

EFEL

Brent Glover, University of Pennsylvania
Joao Gomes, University of Pennsylvania
Amir Yaron, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Corporate Taxes, Leverage, and Business Cycles

 

 

 

 

PRMP

Chris Edmond, University of Melbourne and NBER
Virgiliu Midrigan, New York University and NBER
Daniel Xu, New York University and NBER
Competition and Markups: Micro Evidence and Aggregate Implications

 

 

 

4:00 pm

EFBGZ

Kiminori Matsuyama, Northwestern University
Endogenous Ranking and Equilibrium Lorenz Curve Among (ex-ante) Identical Countries

 

 

 

4:30 pm

EFRSW

Limor Golan, Carnegie Mellon University
Estimating the Parental Returns to Time Investment in Children Using a Life Cycle Dynastic Model
(Joint with George-Levi Gayle and Mehmet Soytas)

 

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 21:

 

 

 

8:30 am

PRDP

Michael Kremer, Harvard University and NBER
Jean Lee, Harvard University
Jonathan Robinson, University of California, Santa Cruz
Olga Rostapshova, Harvard University
The Return to Capital for Small Retailers in Kenya: Evidence from Inventories

 

 

 

8:45 am

ML

Lawrence Christiano, Northwestern University and NBER
Introduction: Perturbation and projection methods for solving DSGE models.

 

 

 

9:00 am

EFACR

Giacomo DeGiorgi, Stanford University and NBER
Anders Frederiksen, Aarhus University
Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University and NBER
Keeping Up with the Jensens? Evidence on Peer Effects on Consumption Using Danish Administrative Data

 

 

 

 

EFBGZ

Matteo Cervellati, University of Bologna
Uwe Sunde, University of St. Gallen
Disease Environment and Civil Conflicts

 

 

 

9:20 am

PRDP

Erica Field, Harvard University and NBER
Rohini Pande, Harvard University and NBER
John Papp, Princeton University
Natalia Rigol, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Term Structure of Debt and Entrepreneurship: Experimental Evidence from Microfinance

 

 

 

9:45 am

EFACR

Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, Northwestern University and NBER
Consumer Credit: Learning Your Customer's Default Risk from What (S)he Buys

 

 

 

 

MPF

Ali Shourideh, University of Minnesota
Optimal Taxation of Entrepreneurial Income: A Mirrleesian Approach to Capital Accumulation

 

 

 

10:15 am

EFBGZ

Stelios Michalopoulos, Tufts University
Elias Papaioannou, Dartmouth College and NBER
The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble of Africa

 

 

 

10:30 am

PRDP

Erica Field and Rohini Pande, Harvard University and NBER
John Papp, Princeton University
Natalia Rigol, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Term Structure of Debt and Entrepreneurship:
Experimental Evidence from Microfinance

 

 

 

10:45 am

EFACR

Tullio Jappelli, University of Napoli
Mario Padula, Universita' "Ca' Foscari" Venezia
Investment in Financial Literacy and Saving Decisions

 

 

 

 

ML

Lawrence Christiano, Northwestern University and NBER
Applications: Interdeterminacy and sunspots.

 

 

 

11:00 am

MPF

Casey Rothschild, Middlebury College
Florian Scheuer, Stanford University an NBER
Optimal Taxation with Rent

 

 

 

11:20 am

PRDP

Tavneet Suri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
William Jack, Georgetown University
The Risk Sharing Benefits of Mobile Money

 

 

 

11:30 am

EFACR

Alexander Bick, Frankfurt University
Sekyu A. Choi, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Life-Cycle Consumption: Can Single Agent Models

 

 

 

 

EFBGZ

Omer Ozak, Brown University
Distance to the Technological Frontier and Economic Development

 

 

 

1:00 pm

EFRSW

Richard Rogerson, Princeton University and NBER
Labor Supply, Frictions and the Business Cycle
(Joint with Per Krusell, Toshi Mukoyama and Aysegul Sahin)

 

 

 

 

MPF

Mark Aguiar, University of Rochester and NBER
Manuel Amador, Stanford University and NBER
Fiscal Policy in Debt-Constrained Economics

 

 

 

1:15 pm

PRDP

Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University
Andrew Foster, Brown University
Are Indian Farms Too Small? Mechanization, Agency Costs, and Farm Efficiency

 

 

 

1:30 pm

EFBGZ

Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Mikhail Golosov, Yale University and NBER
Aleh Tsyvinski, Yale University and NBER
Pierre Yared, Columbia University
A Dynamic Theory of Resource War

 

 

 

 

ML

Lawrence Christiano, Northwestern University and NBER
Applications: Financial frictions.

 

 

 

1:45 pm

MPF

Nezih Guner, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Gustavo Ventura, Arizona State University
Remzi Kaygusuz, Sabanci University
Taxation and Household Labor Supply

 

 

 

2:00 pm

EFRSW

Pricila Maziero, University of Pennsylvania
Optimal Insurance of Search Risk
(Joint with Mike Golosov and Guido Menzio)

 

 

 

2:05 pm

PRDP

Lakshmi Iyer, Harvard University
Xin Meng, Australian National University
Nancy Qian, Yale University and NBER
Xiaoxue Zhao, Yale University
The General Equilibrium Effects of Chinese Urban Housing Reforms on the Urban Wage Structure

 

 

 

2:45 pm

EFBGZ

Vincenzo Galasso, UniversitĂ¡ Bocconi
Paola Profeta,  UniversitĂ¡ Bocconi
When the State Mirrors the Family: The Design of Pension Systems

 

 

 

3:00 pm

MPF

Camille Landais, Stanford University
Pascal Michaillat, London School of Economics
Emmanuel Saez, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Optimal Unemployment Insurance Over the Business Cycle

 

 

 

3:15 pm

PRDP

Mark J. Roberts, Pennsylvania State University and NBER
Daniel Xu, New York University and NBER
Firm Quality, Productivity, and Capability Among Chinese Exporters

 

 

 

3:30 pm

EFRSW

Theodore Papageorgiou, Pennsylvania State University
Large Firms and Internal Labor Markets

 

 

 

 

ML

Lawrence Christiano, Northwestern University and NBER
Applications: Ramsey optimal policy.

 

 

 

3:45 pm

MPF

Claudio Michelacci, CEMFI
Hernan Ruffo, CEMFI
Optimal Life Cycle Unemploument Insurance

 

 

 

4:00 pm

EFBGZ

Francesco Lancia, University of Bologna
Alessia Russo, University of Modena
A Dynamic Politico-Economic model of Intergenerational Contract


 

4:05 pm

PRDP

Amit Khandelwal, Columbia University and NBER
Peter K. Schott, Yale University and NBER
Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University and NBER
When Institutional Reform is Embedded in Trade Liberalization: Evidence from Chinese Exporters

 

 

 

4:30 pm

EFRSW

Rafael Lopes de Melo, University of Chicago
Mismatch, Human Capital Specificity and the Business Cycle

 

 

 

FRIDAY, JULY 22:

 

 

 

8:45 am

HF

Alexander W. Butler, Rice University
Jess Cornaggia, Indiana University
Umit Gurun, University of Texas at Dallas
Substitution Between Sources of Finance in Consumer Capital Markets

 

 

 

 

ML

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Why Non Linear/Non-Gausian DSGE Models? Recursive preferences, stochastic volatility, large shocks.

 

 

 

9:00 am

EFACR

Hui Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Michael Michaux, University of Southern California
Nikolai Roussanov, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Houses as ATMs? Mortgage Refinancing and Macroeconomic Uncertainty

 

 

 

 

PEPF

Marco Battaglini, Princeton University and NBER
Stephen Coate, Cornell University and NBER
Fiscal Policy and Unemployment

 

 

 

 

PEPF

Marina Azzimonti, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia 
Eva de Francisco, Towson University
Vincenzo Quadrini, University of Southern California and NBER
Financial Globalization and the Raising of Public Debt

 

 

 

 

PRIT

John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER
Guy Michaels, London School of Economics
Ashwini Natraj, London School of Economics
Has ICT Polarized Skill Demand?

 

 

 

9:45 am

EFACR

Stefan Hoderlein, University of Mannheim
Assessing the Concavity of Consumption Functions Using Microdata: Theory and Evidence in a Heterogeneous Population

 

 

 

 

PRIT

Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER
Daniel Knoepfle, Stanford University
Jonathan Levin, Stanford University and NBER
Neel Sundaresan, eBay
Sales Taxes and Internet Commerce

 

 

 

10:00 am

HF

Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University and NBER
Markus Noeth, Universitat Hamburg
Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
The Market for Financial Advice: an Audit Study

 

 

 

10:45 am

EFACR

Christian Broda, University of Chicago and NBER
Jonathan Parker,  Northwestern University and NBER
The Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008 and the Aggregate Demand for Consumption

 

 

 

 

ML

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Perturbation theory I

 

 

 

11:00 am

HF

Falko Fecht, EBS Business School
Andreas Hackethal and Yigitcan Karabulut, Goethe University Frankfurt
Is Proprietary Trading Detrimental to Retail Investors?

 

 

 

 

PRIT

Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER
Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie: The Supply of New Recorded Music Since Napster

 

 

 

11:10 am

PEPF

Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Georgy Egorov, Northwestern University and NBER
Konstantin Sonin, NES
A Political Theory of Populism

 

 

 

11:30 am

EFACR

Paolo Surico, London Business School
Kanishka Misra, London Business School
Heterogeneous Responses and the Aggregate Impact of the 2001 Income Tax Rebates

 

 

 

11:45 am

PRIT

Ravi Bapna, University of Minnesota
Alok Gupta, University of Minnesota
Sarah Rice, University of Connecticut
Arun Sundararajan, New York University
Trust, Reciprocity and the Strength of Social Ties: An Online Social Network Based Field Experiment

 

 

 

12:30 pm

EFRSW

Julen Esteban-Pretel, GRIPS
Life-Cycle Labor Search with Stochastic Match Quality
(Joint with Junichi Fujimoto)

 

 

 

12:45 pm

HF

Justine Hastings, Brown University and NBER
Jesse M. Shapiro, University of Chicago and NBER
Mental Accounting and Consumer Choice:
Evidence from Commodity Price Shocks

 

 

 

1:00 pm

PEPF

Monica Martinez-Bravo, John Hopkins University
Gerard Padro i Miquel, London School of Economics and NBER
Nancy Qian, Yale University and NBER
Yang Yao, Pennsylvania State University
The Impact of Limited Democracy in Rural China

 

 

 

 

PEPF

Eric Weese, Yale University
Inefficient Boundaries

 

 

 

1:15 pm

PRIT

Randall Lewis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Justin Rao, Yahoo! Research Labs
David Reiley, Yahoo! Research Labs
Here, There, and Everywhere: Correlated Online Behaviors Can Lead to Overestimates of the Effects of Advertisings

 

 

 

 

PRIT

Jeffery S. McCullough, University of Minnesota
Stephen Parente, University of Minnesota
Robert Town, University of Minnesota and NBER
The Effect of Health Information Technology on Patient Outcomes

 

 

 

1:30 pm

EFRSW

Jan Eeckhout, University College London
Assortative Matching and the Size of the Firm
(Joint with Philipp Kircher)

 

 

 

 

ML

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Perturbation theory II. Projection methods

 

 

 

1:45 pm

HF

Andrew Hertzberg, Columbia University
Exponential Individuals, Hyperbolic Households

 

 

 

2:15 pm

PRIT

Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Social Networks, Personalized Advertising, and Privacy Controls

 

 

 

 

PRIT

Christopher Forman, Georgia Institute of Technology
Nicolas van Zeebroech, Solvay Brussels School
From Wires to Partners: How the Internet has Fostered R&D Collaborations Within Firms

 

 

 

2:30 pm

EFRSW

Rasmus Lentz, University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER
An Empirical Model of Wage Dispersion with Sorting
(Joint with Jesper Bagger)

 

 

 

3:00 pm

HF

Tullio Jappelli, University of Napoli
Mario Padula, Universita Ca' Foscari di Venezia
Investment in Financial Literacy and Saving Decisions

 

 

 

 

PEPF

Marco Bassetto, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and NBER
Leslie McGranahan, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
On the Relationship Between Mobility, Population Growth, and Capital Spending in the United States

 

 

 

3:15 pm

PRIT

Marco Di Maggio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marshall Van Alstyne, Boston University
Information Sharing & Performance: Evidence from a Japanese Bank

 

 

 

 

PRIT

Robert Seamans, New York University
Feng Zhu, University of Southern California
Technology Shocks in Multi-Sided Markets: The Impact of Craigslist on Local Newspapers

 

 

 

3:30 pm

ML

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Models with Heterogenous Agents

 

 

 

4:00 pm

HF

Johan Almenberg, Swedish Ministry of Finance
Artashes Karapetyan, Norges Bank
The Hidden Costs of Hidden Debt


 

4:15 pm

PRIT

Robert Groves, U.S. Census Bureau
Katharine Abraham, Council of Economic Advisors
Hal Varian, Google
Panel: Official Statistics in the Age of Nano Data

 

 

 

SATURDAY, JULY 16:

 

 

 

9:00 am

PRIT

Anuj Kumar, Carnegie Mellon University
Michael Smith, Carnegie Mellon University
Rahul Telang, Carnegie Mellon University
Information Discovery and the Long Tail of Motion Picture Content

 

 

 

 

SAV

Dimitrios Christelis, University of Salerno
Dimitris Georgarakos, Goethe University Frankfurt
Tullio Jappelli, University of Naples Federico II
Wealth Shocks, Unemployment Shocks and Consumption in the Wake of the Great Recession

 

 

 

9:45 am

PRIT

Susan Athey, Harvard University and NBER
Emilio Calvano, Bocconi University
Joshua Gans, University of Melbourne
The Impact of the Internet on Advertising Markets for News Media

 

 

 

10:30 am

SAV

Sule Alan, University of Cambridge
Tom Crossley, University of Cambridge
Hamish Low, University of Cambridge
Household Consumption Behaviour in Recessions

 

 

 

11:00 am

PRIT

Michael Luca, Boston University
Reviews, Reputation, and Revenue: The Case of Yelp.com

 

 

 

11:30 am

SAV

James Poterba  Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Steven Venti, Dartmouth College and NBER
David Wise, Harvard University and NBER
The Asset Cost of Poor Health

 

 

 

11:45 am

PRIT

Sara Fisher Ellison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Christopher Snyder, Dartmouth College and NBER
An Empirical Study of Pricing Strategies in an Online Market with High-Frequency Price Information

 

 

 

1:15 pm

PRIT

Timothy F. Bresnahan, Stanford University and NBER
Pai-Ling Yin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tim Landvoigt, Stanford University
Information Acquisition and Consumer Choice

 

 

 

1:30 pm

SAV

Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago and NBER
Adair Morse, University of Chicago
Consumption Contagion: Does the Consumption of the Very Rich Drive the Consumption of the Less Rich?

 

 

 

2:15 pm

PRIT

Benjamin Shiller, Brandeis University
Digital Downloads and the Prohibition of Resale Markets for Information Goods

 

 

 

2:30 pm

SAV

Song Han, Federal Reserve Board
Benjamin Keys, Federal Reserve Board
Geng Li, Federal Reserve Board
Credit Supply to Bankrupt Consumers: Evidence from Credit Card Mailings

 

 

 

3:15 pm

PRIT

Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Harvard University
Andreea Gorbatai, Harvard University
Testing Colemanʼs Social-Norm Enforcement Mechanism: Evidence from Wikipedia