I-85 Macroeconomics Workshop

Fourth I-85 Macro Workshop

August 7th - September 4th, 2020

Zoom

Registration:

Please sign up here and provide name and email address to receive instruction on how to attend workshop.

Note: if you register once for one of the meetings, you are register for all of them. You do not need to re-register again.

Program:

Friday August 7, 2020 (Chair: Toni Braun)

1:00pm-1:45pm: How important is health inequality for lifetime earnings inequality?, Roozbeh Hosseini

1:45pm-2:30pm: Self Employment as Active Labor Policy, Zoe Xie

Friday August 21, 2020 (Chair: Paul Gaggl)

1:00pm-1:45pm: Macroeconomic effects of household leverage regulations after the crisis, Malin Hu

1:45pm-2:30pm: A general theory of tax-smoothing, Anastasios Karantounias

Friday August 28, 2020 (Chair: Roozbeh Hosseini)

1:00pm-1:45pm: Mandatory savings, informality and liquidity, Carla Moreno

1:45pm-2:30pm: Domestic outsourcing, Scott Spitze

Friday September 4, 2020 (Chair: Aspen Gorry)

1:00pm-1:45pm: Occupational shopping of youth: the strength of a workers’ competitive advantage, Guanghua Wang

1:45pm-2:30pm: Optimal macroprudential and monetary policy in the presence of financial constraints, Aliaksandr Zaretski

Format:

Presenters will have two options for presentation style:

1. 30 minutes with interruptions for "clarifying questions only" followed by 15 minutes of general discussion.

2. Minnesota Style: 45 minutes to present with questions interspersed throughout.

The chair will ask that the speaker state their preferred format before they start and will enforce the clock.

We encourage people to use the chat function. If presenters have coauthors they are welcome to respond.

The chair will also monitor the chats.

Organizers:

Toni Braun (Atlanta Fed)

Paul Gaggl (UNC Charlotte)

Aspend Gorry (Clemson University)

Roozbeh Hosseini (University of Georgia)

Juan Rubio-Ramirez (Emory University)