NEW DATA AND NEW QUESTIONS: IMPLICATIONS FOR MACROECONOMICS CONFERENCE

NOVEMBER 4-5, 2016

12:00p-1:00p	Lunch
1:00p-2:00p	Alberto Cavallo – MIT The Billion Prices Project: Using Online Prices for Measurement and Research (with Roberto Rigobon)
2:00p-2:10p	Break
2:10p-3:10p	Scott Baker – Northwestern University Shopping for Lower Sales Tax Rates (with Lorenz Kueng)
3:10p-3:20p	Break
3:20p-4:20p	Bettina Brüggemann – McMaster University Hours Worked in Europe and the U.S.: New Data, New Answer (with Alexander Bick and Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln)
4:20p-4:30p	Break
4:30p-5:30p	Kevin Donovan – University of Notre Dame Labor Force Transitions and Occupational Attachment Across Countries (with Jianyu Lu and Todd Schoellman)

9:00a-9:30a	Continental Breakfast
9:30a-10:30a	Moritz Kuhn – University of Bonn Wealth and Income Inequality in the U.S. 1948-2013 (with Moritz Schularick and Ulrike Steins)
10:30a-10:40a	Break
10:40a-11:40a	Olivier Coibion – University of Texas, Austin How Do Firms Form their Expectations? (with Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Saten Kumar)
11:40a-11:50a	Break
11:50p-12:50p	Rüdiger Bachmann – University of Notre Dame What Drives Aggregate Investment? Evidence from German Survey Data (with Peter Zorn)
12:50p-2:00p	Lunch
2:00p-3:00p	Lucia Foster – US Census Bureau Examining Macro Questions Using Census Bureau Data
3:00p-3:10p	Break
3:10p-4:10p	Kyle Herkenhoff – University of Minnesota The Impact of Consumer Credit Access on Employment, Earnings and Entrepreneurship (with Gordon Phillips, and Ethan Cohen-Cole)
4:10p-4:20p	Break
4:20p-5:20p	Marianna Kudlyak – Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco The Intensity of Job Search and Search Duration (with Jason Faberman)