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