09:30–10:30
No Flying Cars but 140 IPAs: Productivity Growth in the Brand Economy
With Gagnon, Gruber, and Hottman.
Rob Vigfusson
Discussant: Nicolas Vincent
Conference program
Northwestern Macro Conference
Friday, May 18, 2018
10:30–11:30
Secular Stagnation, Technological Change and the Relationship with Productivity
Michelle Alexopolous
Discussant: Titan Alon
11:30–12:30
Intermediation as Rent Extraction
Guido Menzio
Discussant: Ralf Meisenzahl
13:30–14:30
Mortgage Choices and Rapid Housing Price Appreciation
With Barlevy.
Jonas Fisher
Discussant: Sena Coskun
14:30–15:30
Discretion Rather than Rules: Equilibrium Uniqueness and Forward Guidance with Inconsistent Optimal Plans
With Weber.
Jeff Campbell
Discussant: Roc Armenter
15:30–16:30
Economic Agents as Imperfect Problem Solvers
Cosmin Ilut
Discussant: Martin Bodenstein
16:30–17:30
Growing Productivity without Growing Wages: The Micro-Level Anatomy of the Aggregate Labor Share Decline
With Vincent.
Matthias Kehrig
Discussant: Chris Gust
Saturday, May 19, 2018
09:30–10:30
Stock Market Cross-Section Skewness and Business Cycle Fluctuations
Thiago Ferreira
Discussant: Victor Luo
10:30–11:30
Competitive or Random Search
With Maibom and Moen.
Rasmus Lentz
Discussant: Ben Johannsen
11:30–12:30
A Monetary-Fiscal Theory of the Price Level
David Miller
Discussant: Gideon Bornstein
13:30–14:30
Synchronization and Bias in a Simple Macroeconomic Model
Assaf Patir
Discussant: Joao Guerriero
14:30–15:30
Bubbly Recessions
Toan Phan
Discussant: Riccardo Masolo