Macro sessions will be in Room 2111 in North Hall.
9:00 am - 9:30 am: Arrival and sign-in. (Coffee and bagels will be provided!)
9:30 am - 10:00 am: Welcome and overview.
10:00 am - 10:45 am: Strategic Role of Inventories in Shaping Market Power. Hiroyuki Kubota, UCLA
10:45 am - 11:30 am: Degrees of Structural Transformation: How College Expansion Reshapes Local Skill Composition Across the Schooling Ladder. Maddison Erbabian, UCSD
11:30 am - 12:15 pm: Central Bank Digital Currency and Bank Intermediation. Andrew Wu, UCSD
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm: Lunch (provided)
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm: Long-Term Effects of Slum Upgrading on Climate Resilience and Urban Growth. Juliana Pinillos Perdomo, USC
2:15 pm - 3:00 pm: Firm in the Clouds: Supplier Market Power and Technology Adoption in Cloud Computing. Nicholas Emery-Xu, UCLA
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm: Human Capital Expansion and the Rat Race for Good Jobs. Fanwen Zhu, UCLA
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm: Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Recursive Preferences: The Limits of Immiseration. Kehui Leng, USC
4:45 pm - 5:30 pm: Voting and award presentation