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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2015 Macro Perspectives

Philipp Kircher, Guido Menzio, and Giuseppe Moscarini, Organizers

July 13-17, 2015

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

PROGRAM

 

Monday, July 13


12:00 noon


Lunch


1:00 pm


Marcus Hagedorn, Institute for Advanced Studies
Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Kurt Mitman, Institute for International Economic Studies
Labor Market Implications of Unemployment Benefit Extensions


2:00 pm


Jan Eeckhout, University College London
Ilse Lindenlaub, European University Institute
Unemployment Cycles


3:00 pm


Break


3:30 pm


Kyle F. Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota
Gordon M. Phillips, University of Southern California and NBER
How Credit Constraints Impact Job Finding Rates, Sorting & Aggregate Output


4:30 pm


Rachel Ngai, London School of Economics
Kevin Sheedy, London School of Economics
Moving House


5:30 pm


Adjourn


Tuesday, July 14


12:00 noon


Lunch


1:00 pm


Gregor Jarosch, University of Chicago
Laura Pilossoph, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Statistical Discrimination and Duration Dependence in the Job Finding Rate


2:00 pm


Robert E. Hall, Stanford University and NBER
Sam Schulhofer-Wohl, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Measuring Job-Finding Rates and Matching Efficiency with Heterogeneous Jobseekers


3:00 pm


Break


3:30 pm


Fernando E. Alvarez, University of Chicago and NBER
Katarina Borovickova, New York University
Robert Shimer, University of Chicago and NBER
The Proportional Hazard Model: Estimation and Testing using Price Change and Labor Market Data


4:30 pm


James D. Hamilton, University of California at San Diego and NBER
Hie Joo Ahn, University of California at San Diego
Heterogeneity and Unemployment Dynamics


5:30 pm


Adjourn


Wednesday, July 15


12:00 noon


Lunch


1:00 pm


Jae Song, Social Security Administration
David J. Price
Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota and NBER
Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
Till M. von Wachter, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
Firming Up Inequality


2:00 pm


Jeremy Lise, University College London
Fabien Postel-Vinay
Multidimensional Skills, Sorting, and Human Capital Accumulation


3:00 pm


Break


3:30 pm


Chiara Fratto, University of Chicago
Harald Uhlig, University of Chicago and NBER
Accounting for Post-Crisis Inflation and Employment: A Retro Analysis


4:30 pm


Oleg Itskhoki, Princeton University and NBER
Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University and NBER
Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Dynamics with Heterogenous Firms


5:30 pm


Adjourn

Thursday, July 16


12:00 noon


Lunch


1:00 pm


Patrick Kehoe, University of Minnesota and NBER
Virgiliu Midrigan, New York University and NBER
Elena Pastorino, University of Minnesota
Debt Constraints and Employment


2:00 pm


Mikhail Golosov, Princeton University and NBER
Luigi Iovino, Bocconi University
Social Insurance, Information Revelation, and Lack of Commitment


3:00 pm


Break


3:30 pm


Stephane Bonhomme, University of Chicago
Thibaut Lamadon, University College London
Elena Manresa, MIT
A Distributional Framework for Matched Employer Employee Data


4:30 pm


Rafael Lopes de Melo, University of Chicago
Theodore Papageorgiou, McGill University
Occupational Choice, Human Capital and Learning: A Multi-Armed Bandit Approach


5:30 pm


Adjourn

Friday, July 17


8:00 am


Coffee and pastries


8:30 am


Axel N.O. Gottfries, University of Cambridge
Coen N. Teulings, University of Cambridge
What does the data say about wage setting and job search?


9:30 am


Ioana Marinescu, University of Chicago and NBER
Ronald Wolthoff, University of Toronto
Opening the Black Box of the Matching Function: the Power of Words


10:30 am


Break


11:00 am


Michele Belot, University of Edinburgh
Philipp Kircher, University of Pennsylvania
Paul Muller, VU Amsterdam
Does Searching Broader Improve Job Prospects? - Evidence from Variations of Online Search


12:00 noon


Jason Faberman, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Andreas I. Mueller, Columbia University and NBER
Aysegul Sahin, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Giorgio Topa, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Job Search Behavior among the Employed and Non-Employed


1:00 pm


Adjourn and lunch