Youtube Livestream Links:
DAY ONE: https://youtu.be/cV-d-WruTNM
DAY TWO: https://youtu.be/pGp-_akwT_o
Second Annual MEBDI Fall Conference
on Big Data in Macroeconomics
October 14-15, 2022
Upham Hotel
Santa Barbara
Friday, October 14
(Pacific Times)
8:30 Breakfast
9:00 Spending and Job Search Impacts of Expanded Unemployment Benefits: Evidence from Administrative Micro Data
Joe Vavra (with Peter Ganong, Fiona Greig, Max Liebeskind, Pascal Noel, Daniel Sullivan)
9:45 Pandemic Control in ECON-EPI Networks
Alessandra Fogli (with Marina Azzimonti, Fabrizio Perri, Mark Ponder)
10:30 Coffee Break
10:50 The Dual US Labor Market Uncovered
Aysegul Sahin (with Hie Joo Ahn, Bart Hobijn)
11:25 The Anatomy of Sorting – Evidence from Danish Data
Rasmus Lentz (with Suphanit Piyapromdee, Jean-Marc Robin)
12:20 Lunch
1:40 Minimum Wages and Labor Markets in the Twin Cities
Loukas Karabarbounis (with Jeremy Lise and Anusha Nath)
2:25 Resource Curse or Blessing? Sovereign Risk in Resource-Rich Emerging Economies
Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria (with Franz Hamann, Juan Camilo Mendez-Vizcaino, Enrique Mendoza)
3:10 End of meetings
7:45 Dinner
Saturday, October 15
(Pacific Times)
8:30 Breakfast
9:00 America’s Missing Entrepreneurs
Eric Zwick (with Raj Chetty, John Van Reenen, Owen Zidar)
9:45 The International Price of Remote Work
Alberto Cavallo, (with Agostina Brinatti, Javier Cravino, Andres Drenik)
10:30 Coffee Break
10:50 Empirical Measures of Income Risk
Stephane Bonhomme (with Manuel Arellano, Richard Blundell, Tincho Almuzara)
11:25 Decomposing Passthrough: Labor Market Power, Technology and Adjustment Costs
Ming Xu (with Mons Chan, Sergio Salgado)
12:20 Lunch
1:40 Simple Allocation Rules and Optimal Portfolio Choice Over the Lifecycle
Julia Fonseca (with Victor Duarte, Aaron Goodman and Jonathan Parker)
2:25 Countercyclical Income Risk and Portfolio Choices: Evidence from Sweden
Sylvain Catherine (with Paolo Sodini, Yapei Zhang)
3:10 End of meetings
7:00 Dinner
Organizers: Fatih Guvenen, Loukas Karabarbounis, Peter Rupert