Conference Program
July 29 – 31, 2026
2026 Program Organizers
- Alessandra Fogli — Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
- Pablo Kurlat — University of Southern California
The conference will take place on the first floor of Hanson Hall on the West Bank of the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus.
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
| Time | Event | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | Registration and Breakfast | |
| 9:30 AM | Why Do Households Save and Work? | Margherita Borella, Mariacristina De Nardi, Fang Yang, Johanna P. Torres Chain |
| 10:30 AM | Break | |
| 11:00 AM | The Macroeconomics of Intergenerational Mental Health Transmission | Boaz Abramson, Job Boerma, Diego Daruich, Aleh Tsyvinski |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch Break | |
| 1:00 PM | Labor Market Fluidity and Human Capital Accumulation | Niklas Engbom |
| 2:00 PM | Break | |
| 2:30 PM | Consumption Wedges: Measuring and Diagnosing Distortions | Sasha Indarte, Raymond Kluender, Ulrike Malmendier, Michael Stepner |
| 3:30 PM | Break | |
| 4:00 PM | IneQuality | Gideon Bornstein, Alessandra Peter |
| 5:00 PM | Break | |
| 6:00 PM | Dinner at the Weisman Art Museum |
Thursday, July 30, 2026
| Time | Event | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | Breakfast | |
| 9:30 AM | Strategic Complementarity = Persistence in Linear-Quadratic Mean Field Games | Fernando Alvarez, David Argente, Thomas J. Sargent |
| 10:30 AM | Break | |
| 11:00 AM | A Beckerian Theory of Taxation | Margaret Chen, Mikhail Golosov, Ilia Krasikov |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch Break | |
| 1:00 PM | Misallocation due to Incomplete Markets | David R. Baqaee, Ariel Burstein |
| 2:00 PM | Break | |
| 2:30 PM | Who Can Control Our Firms? National Security and Foreign Ownership Regulation | Rodrigo Adão, Olivier Kooi |
| 3:30 PM | Break | |
| 4:00 PM | The Value of Organizational Learning Technologies | Martin Beraja, Eduard Talamàs |
| 5:00 PM | Break | |
| 5:30 PM | Reception |
Friday, July 31, 2026
| Time | Event | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | Breakfast | |
| 9:30 AM | Pricing and Production Without The Invisible Hand | Joel P. Flynn, George Nikolakoudis, Karthik A. Sastry |
| 10:30 AM | Break | |
| 11:00 AM | HANKSSON | Florin O. Bilbiie, Sigurd Mølster Galaasen, Refet S. Gürkaynak, Mathis Mæhlum, Krisztina Molnár |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch Break | |
| 1:00 PM | The Spatial Distribution of Markups | Jonathan Becker, Chris Edmond, Virgiliu Midrigan, Daniel Yi Xu |
| 2:00 PM | Break | |
| 2:30 PM | Dynamic Investment and Product Market Rivalry: The Network Q Model | Maria Cecilia Bustamante, Bruno Pellegrino |
| 3:30 PM | Break | |
| 4:00 PM | Conference ends | |