9.15am breakfast, opening remarks at 9:50am
First session
Chair: Patricia Gomez-Gonzalez (Fordham University)
10:00-10:50am: Neville Francis (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
State-dependent Adjustment Cost and Labor Dynamics in Recessions: Evidence using FGTS Policy in Brazil (with Calebe Figueiredo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Discussant: Hernan J. Moscoso Boedo (University of Cincinnati)
11:00-11:50am: Yoon Jo (Columbia University)
Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in the United States
Discussant: Sebastian Heise (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
11:50am - 12:10pm: Coffee
12:10-1:00pm: Maya Eden (Brandeis University)
The Macroeconomic Effects of Automation: Does Capital Aggregation Matter? (with Paul Gaggl, University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Discussant: Ezra Oberfield (Princeton University)
Keynote and Lunch
1:00-1:45pm Lunch
1:45-2:45pm Raquel Fernandez (NYU)
Universal Basic Income: A Dynamic Assessment (with Diego Daruich, St. Louis Fed)
2:45-3:10pm: Coffee
Second session
Chair: Michael Waugh (NYU Stern)
3:10-4 pm : David Wiczer (Stony Brook University)
Earnings Growth, Job Flows, and Churn (with Satoshi Tanaka, University of Queensland and Lawrence Warren, US Census Bureau)
Discussant: Isabel Cairo (Federal Reserve Board)
4:10-5pm : Benjamin Pugsley (University of Notre Dame)
Demographic Origins of the Start-up Deficit (with Fatih Karahan, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Aysegul Sahin, University of Texas at Austin)
Discussant: Christopher Huckfeldt (Cornell University)
5:10 pm Thanks and adjourn for reception