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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2014 Macro Perspectives

Richard Rogerson, Robert Shimer, and Randall Wright, Organizers

July 14-18, 2014

Charles Room A

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

 PROGRAM

 

Monday, July 14:

12:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm

Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University and NBER
Fabien Postel-Vinay, University of Bristol
Did the Job Ladder Fail After the Great Recession?

2:00 pm

Rob Shimer, University of Chicago and NBER
Decomposing Duration Dependence in the Job Finding Rate in a Stopping Time Model
(with Fernando Alvarez and Katarina Borovickova)

3:00 pm

Break

3:30 pm

Nicola Fuchs-Schuendeln
Labor Supply Along the Intensive and Extensive Margin: Cross Country Facts and Time Trends by Gender
(with Alexander Bick and Bettina Brueggemann)

4:30 pm

Rachel Ngai, London School of Economics
Barbara Petrongolo,
Queen Mary University London
Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy
 

5:30 pm

Adjourn


Tuesday, July 15:


12:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm

Rasmus Lentz, University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER
Labor Market Friction, Firm Heterogeneity, and Aggregate Employment and Productivity

2:00 pm

John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
Cyclical Reallocation of Workers Across Large and Small Employers
 (with Henry Hyatt Erika McEntafer)

3:00 pm

Break

3:30 pm

Georg Duernecker, University of Mannheim
Berthold Herrendorf, Arizona State University
On the Allocation of Time

4:30 pm

Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, Carnegie Mellon University
Lu Zhang, Ohio State University and NBER
Unemployment Crises


5:30 pm

Adjourn


Wednesday, July 16

12:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm

Gabriel I. Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University and NBER
Loukas Karabarbounis, University of Chicago and NBER
The Cyclicality of the Opportunity Cost of Employment
 

2:00 pm

Felix Koenig, London School of Economics
Alan Manning, London School of Economics
Barbara Petrongolo,
Queen Mary University London
Reservation Wages and the Wage Flexibility Puzzle

3:00 pm

Break

3:30 pm

Thibaut Lamadon, University College London
Productivity Shocks, Dynamic Contracts and Income Uncertainty

4:30 pm

Jan Eeckhout, University College London
Nezih Guner, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Optimal Spatial Taxation

5:30 pm

Adjourn

6:00 pm

Clambake, Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge, MA



Thursday, July 17

12:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm

Marcus Hagedorn, Institute for Advanced Studies
Tzuo Hann Law, University of Pennsylvania
Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Identifying Equilibrium Models of Labor Market Sorting
 

2:00 pm

Ilse Lindenlaub, European University Institute
Sorting Multidimensional Types: Theory and Application
 

3:00 pm

Break

3:30 pm

Anton Cheremukhin, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria, Ohio State University
Antonella Tutino, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
A Theory of Targeted Search
 

4:30 pm

Florian Hoffmann, University of British Columbia
Shouyong Shi,
Pennsylvania State University
Sectoral Shift, Job Mobility and Wage Inequality

5:30pm


Adjourn


7:00 pm


Group dinner with workshop participants

Friday, July 18:

Joint meeting with the Aggregate Implications of Micro Consumption Behavior group

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

9:00 am

Kyle Herkenhoff, University of California at Los Angeles
The Impact of Consumer Credit Access on Unemployment

10:00 am

Guido Menzio, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Large and Small Sellers: A Theory of Equilibrium Price Dispersion with Sequential Search
(with Nicholas Trachter)


11:00 am


Break


11:15 am


Sekyu Choi, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Javier Fernandez-Blanco, University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Unemployment Duration and Worker Turnover

12:15 pm

Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota and NBER
Burhanettin Kuruscu, University of Texas at Austin
Satoshi Tanaka, The University of Queensland
David G. Wiczer
Occupational Switching and Self-Discovery in the Labor Market

1:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

2:15 pm

John Sabelhaus, Federal Reserve Board
Survey of Consumer Finances 2016 Redesign: Presentation and Conversation (slides)