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IZA Workshop: The Role of Search and Matching in Macroeconomics: A Retrospective

Organizers: Michael C. Burda (Humboldt University Berlin and IZA), Marianna Kudlyak (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Hoover Institution and IZA), Simon Trenkle (IZA)
Location:ONLINE
Date:November 18, 2021 - November 19, 2021

Event Manager:

Viola Hartmann (IZA)

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+++ presentation: 30 min incl. Q&A +++


Thursday, November 18:

 
15:15 - 15:30   Welcome and Introduction
 
 
        Session A
  Chair: Michael C. Burda (Humboldt University Berlin and IZA)
 
15:30 - 16:00   Yusuf Mercan (University of Melbourne), Benjamin Schoefer (UC Berkeley and IZA), Petr Sedlacek (University of New South Wales)
  "A Congestion Theory of Unemployment Fluctuations"
 
   
 
16:00 - 16:30   Christian Merkl (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and IZA), Anja Bauer (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg), Heiko Stüber (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg and IZA)
  "Labor Market Dynamics: The Role of Matching Efficiency and Quits"
 
   
 
16:30 - 17:00   Shu Lin Wee (Bank of Canada), Serdar Birinci (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis), Kurt Gerrard See (Bank of Canada)
  "Job Applications and Labor Market Flows"
 
 
17:00 - 17:15   Break / Breakout Session
 
 
        Session B
  Chair: Simon Trenkle (IZA)
 
17:15 - 17:45   Nezih Guner (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and IZA), Alessandro Ruggieri (University of Nottingham)
  "Misallocation and Inequality"
 
   
 
17:45 - 18:15   Moritz Kuhn (University of Bonn and IZA), Iourii Manovskii (University of Pennsylvania), Xincheng Qiu (University of Pennsylvania)
  "The Geography of Job Creation and Job Destruction"
 
   
 
18:15 - 18:45   Chiara Lacava (Goethe University Frankfurt)
  "Matching and Sorting across Regions"
 
   
 
 
18:45 - 19:00   Break / Breakout Session
 
 
19:00 - 20:00   Keynote
  Chair: Simon Trenkle (IZA)
 
    Robert E. Hall (Robert and Carole McNeil Joint Hoover Senior Fellow and Professor of Economics, Stanford University)
  "Search-and-Matching Perspectives on Business-Cycle Recoveries"
 

Friday, November 19:

 
        Session C
  Chair: Michael C. Burda (Humboldt University Berlin and IZA)
 
15:30 - 16:00   Richard Rogerson (Princeton University), Andres Erosa (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Luisa Fuster (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Gueorgui Kambourov (University of Toronto)
  "Occupations, Life Cycle Wage Growth and Inequality"
 
16:00 - 16:30   Marianna Kudlyak (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Hoover Institution and IZA), Mark Bils (University of Rocherster), Paulo Lins (University of Rocherster)
  "The Quality-Adjusted Cyclical Price of Labor"
 
16:30 - 17:00   Benjamin Schoefer (UC Berkeley and IZA)
  "The Financial Channel of Wage Rigidity"
 
 
17:00 - 17:15   Break / Breakout Session
 
 
        Session D
  Chair: Simon Trenkle (IZA)
 
17:15 - 17:45   Pieter A. Gautier (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and IZA), James Albrecht (Georgetown University and IZA), Xiaoming Cai (Peking University), Susan Vroman (Georgetown University and IZA)
  "On the Foundtions of Competitive Search Equilibrium with and without Market Makers"
 
   
 
17:45 - 18:15   Cynthia Doniger (Federal Reserve Board), Desmond Toohey (University of Delaware)
  "On the Efficiency of Progressive Social Insurance and a Novel Test for Posted Wages"
 
   
 
18:15 - 18:45   Josef Zweimüller (University of Zurich and IZA), Rafael Lalive (University of Lausanne and IZA), Aderonke Osikominu (University of Hohenheim and IZA), Jeremy Zuchuat (University of Lausanne)
  "Duration Depedence in Job Search"
 
 
18:45 - 19:00   Break / Breakout Session
 
 
19:00 - 20:00   Keynote
  Chair: Marianna Kudlyak (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Hoover Institution and IZA)
 
    Steven J. Davis (William H. Abbott Distinguished Service Professor of International Business and Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution), Brenda Samaniego de la Parra (UC Santa Cruz)
  "Application Flows"