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PHILADELPHIA WORKSHOP ON MACROECONOMICS, 2015
April 10-11, 2015
Location: University of Pennsylvania, Steinberg/Dietrich Hall, Room 215, 3620 Locust Walk
Sponsors: Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, The Penn Institute
of Economic Research and the International Economic Review
Friday April 10, 2015
Welcome: 1:55 PM
2:00 – 3:15
Gauti Eggertsson and Neil Mehrotra, “A Model of Secular Stagnation”
Discussant: Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde
Break: 3:15-3:30
3:30-4:45
Joao Gomes, and Urban Jermann “Sticky Leverage”
Discussant: Julia K. Thomas
5:00-6:15
Break: 4:45-5:00
Alessandro Gavazza, Simon Mongey and Gianluca Violante,“What Shifts the Beveridge
Curve? Recruiting Intensity and Financial Shocks”
Discussant: Russell Cooper
DINNER 6:45 @ Distrito – Authors, Discussants and Guests
Saturday April 11, 2015
Continental Breakfast 8:00-9:00 AM
9:00 – 10:00
Distinguished Speaker, Thomas Sargent
10:15-11:30
Break: 10:00-10:15
Ezra Oberfield and Devesh Raval, “Micro Data and Macro Technology”
Discussant: Ryan Michaels
11:45-1:00
Break: 11:30 – 11:45
Fabien Postel-Vinay TBA
Discussant: Rasmus Lentz
1:30-2:45
BOX LUNCH 1:00-1:30
Svetlana Pashchenko and Ponpoje Porapakkarm,“Work Incentives and Medicaid
Beneficiaries and the Role of Asset Testing”
Discussant Karen Kopecky
3:00-4:15
Break 2:45-3:00
Casey Mulligan TBA
Discussant Bjorn Bruggeman
Break and Adjourn 4:30