26th May 2021

(Times in British Summer Time)

13:55-14:00 Introduction

14:00-14:45 Juraj Briskar (Edinburgh). Can industry-wide wage bargaining improve output, employment and inequality? Discussant: Jesper Bagger 

14:45-15:30 Michael Simmons (RHUL). Pre-layoff search Discussant: Carlos Carrillo-Tudela

16:00-16:45 Francisca Sara-Zaror (Chicago). Expected Inflation and Welfare: The Role of Consumer Search Discussant: Kieran Larkin

16:45-17:30  Hugo van Buggenum (Tilburg). Private Assets and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies Discussant: Tai-Wei Hu

18:00-18:45 Adrien Bilal (Chicago). Outsourcing, Inequality and Aggregate Output Discussant: Richard Audoly

18:45-19:30 Paolo Martellini (Mineapolis FED). Local Labor Markets and Aggregate Productivity Discussant: Christoph Hedtrich

27th May 2021

13:55-14:00 Introduction

14:00-14:45 Max Bres (EUI). Age-composition of Demand and Secular Stagnation Discussant: Yikai Wang

14:45-15:30 Lukas Nord (EUI). Joint Search over the Life Cycle Discussant: Ben Griffy

16:00-16:45 Nicola Rosaia (Harvard). Competing Platforms and Transport Equilibrium: Evidence from New York City Discussant: Manolis Galenianos

16:45-17:30 Rachel Scarfe (Edinburgh). Flexibility or certainty? The aggregate effects of casual and zero-hours jobs on labour markets Discussant: Etienne Lale

18:00-18:45 Pengpeng Xiao (Yale). Wage and Employment Discrimination by Gender in Labor Market Equilibrium Discussant: Christian Moser

18:45-19:30 Masao Fukui (MIT). A Theory of Wage Rigidity and Unemployment Fluctuations with On-the-Job Search Discussant: Sekyu Choi