JUNIOR MACROECONOMICS CONFERENCE

NOVEMBER 3-4, 2017

12:00p-1:00p	Lunch
1:00p-2:00p	Domenico Ferraro Arizona State University The Countercyclical Tax Multiplier
2:00p-2:10p	Break
2:10p-3:10p	Kurt Mitman Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University The Impact of Unemployment Benefit Extensions on Employment: The 2014 Employment Miracle? (with Iourii Manovskii and Marcus Hagedorn)
3:10p-3:20p	Break
3:20p-4:20p	Claudia Macaluso W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Skill remoteness and post-layoff labor market outcomes
4:20p-4:30p	Break
4:30p-5:30p	Chris Huckfeldt Cornell University Unemployment Fluctuations, Match Quality, and the Wage Cyclicality of New Hires (with Mark Gertler and Antonella Trigari)

9:00a-9:30a	Continental Breakfast
9:30a-10:30a	Laura Pilossoph Federal Reserve Bank of New York Assortative Matching and Household Income Inequality: A Structural Approach (with Shu Lin Wee)
10:30a-10:40a	Break
10:40a-11:40a	Sebastian Dyrda University of Toronto Taxes, Regulations of Businesses and Evolution of Income Inequality in the US (with Ben Pugsley)
11:40a-11:50a	Break
11:50p-12:50p	Fatih Karahan Federal Reserve Bank of New York Sources of Inequality in Earnings Growth Over the Life Cycle (with Serdar Ozkan and Jae Song)
12:50p-2:00p	Lunch
2:00p-3:00p	Stephie Fried Arizona State University The Role of Energy Capital in Accounting for Africa's Recent Growth Resurgence (with David Lagakos)
3:00p-3:10p	Break
3:10p-4:10p	Julieta Caunedo Cornell University Capital Obsolescence and Agricultural Productivity (with Elisa Keller)
4:10p-4:20p	Break
4:20p-5:20p	Simon Mongey Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Market Structure and Monetary Non-neutrality

Conference Organizers: Alexander Bick and Domenico Ferraro - Arizona State University