2nd Annual MEBDI Fall Conference on Big Data in Macroeconomics
October 14-15, 2022 | Upham Hotel Santa Barbara
The conference was held in Santa Barbara on October 14-15, 2022 in collaboration with the Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance at UCSB.
Watch the Youtube Video of the Presentations at the Conference:
DAY ONE: https://youtu.be/R8Z7RHwWS1Y
DAY TWO: https://youtu.be/pGp-_akwT_o
Organizers: Fatih Guvenen, Loukas Karabarbounis, Peter Rupert
Conference Schedule
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