Tuesday, July 30

Equilibrium Labor Turnover, Firm Growth and Unemployment

Dale Mortensen (Northwestern), Melvyn Coles (University of Essex)

Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment in the Great Recession: The Role of Macro Effects

Iourii Manovskii (University of Pennsylvania), Marcus Hagedorn (Institute for Advanced Studies), Fatih Karahan (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), Kurt Mitman (University of Pennsylvania)

Women's Emancipation through Education: A Macroeconomic Analysis

Michelle Rendall (University of Zurich), Fatih Guvenen (University of Minnesota and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)

Wednesday, July 31

Sparse Dynamic Programming and Aggregate Fluctuations

Xavier Gabaix (NYU Stern)

Economic Development and the Organization of Production

Nicolas Roys (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Ananth Seshadri (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Segmented Housing Search

Johannes Stroebel (University of Chicago Booth), Martin Schneider (Stanford/NBER), Monika Piazzesi (Stanford/NBER)

Price Setting with Customer Retention Concerns

Luigi Paciello, Andrea Pozzi, Nicholas Trachter (all Einaudi Institute)

Thursday, August 1

Uncertainty Shocks, Asset Supply and Pricing over the Business Cycle

Cosmin Ilut, Francesco Bianchi (Duke), Martin Schneider (Stanford/NBER)

Rising Intangible Capital, Shrinking Debt Capacity, and the US Corporate Savings Glut

Dalida Kadyrzhanova (University of Maryland), Antonio Falato, Jae Sim (Federal Reserve Board)

Is There "Too Much" Inequality in Health Spending Across Income Groups?

Roozbeh Hosseini (Arizona State), Laurence Ales (Carnegie Mellon), Larry Jones (University of Minnesota/Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)

Old, Sick, Alone and Poor: A Welfare Analysis of Old-age Social Insurance Programs

Karen Kopecky, Tony Braun (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta), Tatyana Koreshkova (Concordia/CIREQ)

Friday, August 2

Extensive and Intensive Investment over the Business Cycle

Boyan Jovanovic (NYU), Peter Rousseau (Vanderbilt)

Fiscal Rules and Discretion under Persistent Shocks

Pierre Yared, Marina Halac (Columbia)

Crisis and Commitment: Inflation Credibility and the Vulnerability to Sovereign Debt Crises

Mark Aguiar (Princeton), Manuel Amador (Stanford), Emmanuel Farhi, Gita Gopinath (Harvard)

Bailouts, Time Inconsistency, and Optimal Regulation

Patrick Kehoe, V. V. Chari (University of Minnesota/Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)