The 5th annual Women in Macro Conference brought together influential economists from around the world working in the field of macroeconomics, broadly defined. The objective of the conference is to feature the high-quality work of economists of all backgrounds. It provides participants an informal venue to strengthen their research and build their network at early stages of their careers.

View highlights from the 2019, 2020, and 2022 conferences.

Agenda

Thursday, May 18, 2023
09:00:00–10:00:00

Marriage Market Sorting in the U.S.

Paulina Restrepo-Echavarría, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Presenter)

Anton Cheremukhin, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (Co-Author)

Antonella Tutino, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (Co-Author)

Shu Lin Wee, Bank of Canada (Discussant)

10:00:00–11:00:00

The Distributional Impact of the Minimum Wage in the Short and Long Run

Elena Pastorino, Hoover Institution (Presenter)

Erik Hurst, University of Chicago (Co-author)

Patrick Kehoe, Stanford University (Co-author)

Tom Winberry, University of Pennsylvania (Co-author)

Ayşegül Şahin, University of Texas, Austin (Discussant)

 

11:00:00–11:15:00

Break

11:15:00–12:15:00

Temporary Layoffs, Loss-of-Recall, and Cyclical Unemployment Dynamics

Antonella Trigari, Bocconi University (Presenter)

Mark Gertler, New York University (Co-author)

Christopher Huckfeldt, Federal Reserve Board (Co-author)

Ilse Lindenlaub, Yale University (Discussant)

12:15:00–12:30:00

Group Photo

12:30:00–15:30:00

Lunch in the Garden

15:30:00–16:30:00

Concentration and Markups in International Trade

Monica Morlacco, University of Southern California (Presenter)

Vanessa Alviarez, Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) (Co-author)

Michele Fioretti, Sciences Po (Co-author)

Ayumu Ken Kikkawa, University of British Columbia (Co-author)

Laura Castillo-Martinez, Duke University (Discussant)

16:30:00–17:30:00

The Expansion of Product Varieties in the New Age of Advertising

Salomé Baslandze, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Presenter)

Jeremy Greenwood, University of Pennsylvania (Co-author)

Ricardo Marto, University of Pennsylvania (Co-author)

Sara Moreira, Northwestern University (Co-author)

Galina Vereshchagina, Arizona State University (Discussant)

Conference Dinner

Friday, May 19, 2023
09:30:00–10:30:00

The Crowding Out Effect of Local Government Debt: Micro- and Macro-Estimates

Noémie Pinardon-Touati, Columbia University (Presenter)

Valerie Ramey, University of California, San Diego (Discussant)

10:30:00–11:30:00

Optimal Policy with Redistribution

Jennifer La’O, Columbia University (Presenter)

Wendy Morrison, Columbia University (Co-author)

Elisa Rubbo, University of Chicago (Discussant)

11:30:00–11:45:00

Break

11:45:00–12:45:00

The Macroeconomic Consequences of Exchange Rate Depreciations

Emi Nakamura, University of California, Berkeley (Presenter)

Masao Fukui, Boston University (Co-author)

Jon Steinsson, University of California, Berkeley (Co-author)

Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, University of Maryland (Discussant)

12:45:00–14:00:00

Lunch in the Garden

14:00:00–15:00:00

Homelessness

Ayşe İmrohoroğlu, University of Southern California (Presenter)

Hannah Rubinton, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Discussant)

15:00:00–16:00:00

A Model of the Data Economy

Maryam Farboodi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Presenter)

Laura Veldkamp, Columbia University (Co-author)

Ana Babuş, Washington University, St. Louis (Discussant)

Social Event