2015 Philadelphia Workshop on Macroeconomics

The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Penn Institute for Economic Research -- PIER -- and the International Economic Review -- IER -- are pleased to announce that the Philadelphia Workshop on Macroeconomics will be held at the Steinberg Dietrich Hall, Room 215, University of Pennsylvania on April 10, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. and on April 11, 2015 at 9:00 a.m.

The organizers are Dirk Krueger and Iourrii Manovskii at Penn Economics, and Satyajit Chatterjee and Makoto Nakajima at the Federal Reserve Bank.

AGENDA

PAPERS:

"A Model of Secular Stagnation" by Gauti B. Eggertsson,  and Neil R. Mehrotra

"What Shifts the Beveridge Curve? Recruiting Intensity and Financial Shocks" by Alessandro Gavazza, Simon Mongey, and Gianluca Violante

"Sticky Leverage" by Joao Gomes, Urban Jermann and Lukas Schmid

"Micro Data and Macro Technology" by Ezra Oberfeld and Devesh Raval

"Work Incentives of Medicaid Beneficiaries and The Role of Asset Testing"
by Svetlana Pashchenkoy and Ponpoje Porapakkarm

"New Full-time Employment Taxes" by Casey B. Mulligan

"Multidimensional Skills, Sorting, and Human Capital Accumulation"  by Fabien Postel-Vinay and Jeremy Lise