New York/Philadelphia Workshop on Quantitative Macroeconomics

9:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

10:00 a.m.

The U-Shapes of Occupational Mobility

• Fane Groes, University of Copenhagen
• Philipp Kircher, University of Pennsylvania
• Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania
• Discussant: Theodore Papageorgiou, Pennsylvania State University

11:00 a.m.

Coffee Break

11:15 a.m.

The Cyclicality of the User Cost of Labor with Search and Matching

• Marianna Kudlyak, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
• Discussant: Ayşegül Şahin, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

12:15 p.m.

Lunch

1:15 p.m.

Worker Flows and Job Flows: A Quantitative Investigation

• Shigeru Fujita, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
• Makoto Nakajima, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
• Discussant: Murat Tasci, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

2:15 p.m.

Coffee Break

2:30 p.m.

Financial Crises and Labor Market Turbulence

• Sangeeta Pratap, Hunter College & Graduate Center, City University of New York
• Erwan Quintin, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
• Discussant: Jason Faberman, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

3:30 p.m.

Coffee Break

3:45 p.m.

Comparative Advantage and Cyclical Employment

• Mark Bils, University of Rochester
• Yongsung Chang, University of Rochester
• Sun-Bin Kim, Korea University
• Discussant: Valerie Ramey, UC San Diego

4:45 p.m.

Coffee Break

5:00 p.m.

Do Falling Iceberg Costs Account for U.S. Export Growth?

• George Alessandria, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
• Horag Choi, University of Auckland
• Discussant: Alexander Monge, Pennsylvania State University