Fall 2025 Midwest Macroeconomics Meeting

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

 
November 13, 2025
 
TimeLocationEvent
 
08:00 to 08:30Pianalto Auditorium
Registration and Breakfast
 
 
08:30 to 10:00see below Parallel Sessions
 
 
10:15 to 12:15 Parallel Sessions
 
 
12:15 to 14:00Pianalto Auditorium
Lunch and Keynote Speech by Loukas Karabarbounis
 
 
14:00 to 16:00 Parallel Sessions
 
 
16:15 to 17:45 Parallel Sessions
 
 
17:45 to 19:45Pianalto Auditorium
Reception
 
 
 
November 14, 2025
 
TimeLocationEvent
 
08:00 to 08:30Pianalto Auditorium
Breakfast
 
 
08:30 to 10:00 Parallel Sessions
 
 
10:15 to 12:15 Parallel Sessions
 
 
12:15 to 14:00Pianalto Auditorium
Lunch and Keynote Speech by Michele Tertilt
 
 
14:00 to 16:00 Parallel Sessions
 
 
16:15 to 17:45 Parallel Sessions
 
 
17:45 to 19:15Pianalto Auditorium
Reception
 
 

 

Program Notes and Index of Sessions

Parallel Sessions
Locations: click on each session to see location
November 13, 2025 08:30 to 10:00
 
Central Bank Communication and Monetary Policy, Cleveland Room
Asset Pricing in Macro Models, Cincinnati Room A
Import Tariffs, Cincinnati Room B
Macroeconomics and Public Finance, Pittsburgh Room A
Macroeconometrics, Pittsburgh Room B

Parallel Sessions
Locations: click on each session to see location
November 13, 2025 10:15 to 12:15
 
Inflation, Expectations, and Uncertainty, Cleveland Room
Bank Funding and Monetary Policy, Cincinnati Room A
Long-run Issues: Environment and Aging, Cincinnati Room B
Labor Market Interactions with Policy, Pittsburgh Room A
Social Insurance and Family, Pittsburgh Room B

Lunch and Keynote Speech by Loukas Karabarbounis
Location: Pianalto Auditorium
November 13, 2025 12:15 to 14:00

Parallel Sessions
Locations: click on each session to see location
November 13, 2025 14:00 to 16:00
 
Inflation and the Business Cycle, Cleveland Room
Banking System and Lending, Cincinnati Room A
Growth and Spatial issues, Cincinnati Room B
Fiscal Policy and Public Debt, Pittsburgh Room A
Firm Organization and Labor Markets, Pittsburgh Room B

Parallel Sessions
Locations: click on each session to see location
November 13, 2025 16:15 to 17:45
 
Fiscal and Monetary Policies, Cleveland Room
Labor Market Sorting, Cincinnati Room A
International Trade, Cincinnati Room B
Social Security and Retirement, Pittsburgh Room A
Market Structure and Firm Dynamics, Pittsburgh Room B

Parallel Sessions
Locations: click on each session to see location
November 14, 2025 08:30 to 10:00
 
Expectations, Uncertainty, and the Macroeconomy, Cleveland Room
International Finance, Cincinnati Room A
Health, Labor Supply, and Savings, Cincinnati Room B
Sovereign Default, Pittsburgh Room A
Labor Market Fluctuations, Pittsburgh Room B

Parallel Sessions
Locations: click on each session to see location
November 14, 2025 10:15 to 12:15
 
Firm Heterogeneity and Monetary Policy, Cleveland Room
Technology and Growth, Cincinnati Room A
Urban Economics, Cincinnati Room B
Tax Reforms and Insurance, Pittsburgh Room A
Income and Wealth Dynamics, Pittsburgh Room B

Lunch and Keynote Speech by Michele Tertilt
Location: Pianalto Auditorium
November 14, 2025 12:15 to 14:00

Parallel Sessions
Locations: click on each session to see location
November 14, 2025 14:00 to 16:00
 
Sovereign Debt and Monetary Policy, Cleveland Room
Firms' Financing Frictions, Cincinnati Room A
Life-Cycle Models and Household Finance, Cincinnati Room B
Corporate Finance, Pittsburgh Room A
Public Finance and Heterogeneity, Pittsburgh Room B

Parallel Sessions
Locations: click on each session to see location
November 14, 2025 16:15 to 17:45
 
Heterogeneity and the Business Cycle, Cleveland Room
Wage Determination, Cincinnati Room A
Uneven Growth, Cincinnati Room B
Supply Chain Networks, Pittsburgh Room A
Quantitative Methods: Local Projections and Counterfactuals, Pittsburgh Room B

 

Summary of All Sessions

Click here for an index of all participants

#Date/TimeTitle/LocationPapers
1November 13, 2025
8:30-10:00
Central Bank Communication and Monetary Policy

    Location: Cleveland Room

3
2November 13, 2025
8:30-10:00
Asset Pricing in Macro Models

    Location: Cincinnati Room A

3
3November 13, 2025
8:30-10:00
Import Tariffs

    Location: Cincinnati Room B

3
4November 13, 2025
8:30-10:00
Macroeconomics and Public Finance

    Location: Pittsburgh Room A

3
5November 13, 2025
8:30-10:00
Macroeconometrics

    Location: Pittsburgh Room B

3
6November 13, 2025
10:15-12:15
Inflation, Expectations, and Uncertainty

    Location: Cleveland Room

4
7November 13, 2025
10:15-12:15
Bank Funding and Monetary Policy

    Location: Cincinnati Room A

4
8November 13, 2025
10:15-12:15
Long-run Issues: Environment and Aging

    Location: Cincinnati Room B

4
9November 13, 2025
10:15-12:15
Labor Market Interactions with Policy

    Location: Pittsburgh Room A

4
10November 13, 2025
10:15-12:15
Social Insurance and Family

    Location: Pittsburgh Room B

4
11November 13, 2025
14:00-16:00
Inflation and the Business Cycle

    Location: Cleveland Room

4
12November 13, 2025
14:00-16:00
Banking System and Lending

    Location: Cincinnati Room A

4
13November 13, 2025
14:00-16:00
Growth and Spatial issues

    Location: Cincinnati Room B

4
14November 13, 2025
14:00-16:00
Fiscal Policy and Public Debt

    Location: Pittsburgh Room A

4
15November 13, 2025
14:00-16:00
Firm Organization and Labor Markets

    Location: Pittsburgh Room B

4
16November 13, 2025
16:15-17:45
Fiscal and Monetary Policies

    Location: Cleveland Room

3
17November 13, 2025
16:15-17:45
Labor Market Sorting

    Location: Cincinnati Room A

3
18November 13, 2025
16:15-17:45
International Trade

    Location: Cincinnati Room B

3
19November 13, 2025
16:15-17:45
Social Security and Retirement

    Location: Pittsburgh Room A

3
20November 13, 2025
16:15-17:45
Market Structure and Firm Dynamics

    Location: Pittsburgh Room B

3
21November 14, 2025
8:30-10:00
Expectations, Uncertainty, and the Macroeconomy

    Location: Cleveland Room

3
22November 14, 2025
8:30-10:00
International Finance

    Location: Cincinnati Room A

3
23November 14, 2025
8:30-10:00
Health, Labor Supply, and Savings

    Location: Cincinnati Room B

3
24November 14, 2025
8:30-10:00
Sovereign Default

    Location: Pittsburgh Room A

3
25November 14, 2025
8:30-10:00
Labor Market Fluctuations

    Location: Pittsburgh Room B

3
26November 14, 2025
10:15-12:15
Firm Heterogeneity and Monetary Policy

    Location: Cleveland Room

4
27November 14, 2025
10:15-12:15
Technology and Growth

    Location: Cincinnati Room A

4
28November 14, 2025
10:15-12:15
Urban Economics

    Location: Cincinnati Room B

4
29November 14, 2025
10:15-12:15
Tax Reforms and Insurance

    Location: Pittsburgh Room A

4
30November 14, 2025
10:15-12:15
Income and Wealth Dynamics

    Location: Pittsburgh Room B

4
31November 14, 2025
14:00-16:00
Sovereign Debt and Monetary Policy

    Location: Cleveland Room

4
32November 14, 2025
14:00-16:00
Firms' Financing Frictions

    Location: Cincinnati Room A

4
33November 14, 2025
14:00-16:00
Life-Cycle Models and Household Finance

    Location: Cincinnati Room B

4
34November 14, 2025
14:00-16:00
Corporate Finance

    Location: Pittsburgh Room A

4
35November 14, 2025
14:00-16:00
Public Finance and Heterogeneity

    Location: Pittsburgh Room B

4
36November 14, 2025
16:15-17:45
Heterogeneity and the Business Cycle

    Location: Cleveland Room

3
37November 14, 2025
16:15-17:45
Wage Determination

    Location: Cincinnati Room A

3
38November 14, 2025
16:15-17:45
Uneven Growth

    Location: Cincinnati Room B

3
39November 14, 2025
16:15-17:45
Supply Chain Networks

    Location: Pittsburgh Room A

3
40November 14, 2025
16:15-17:45
Quantitative Methods: Local Projections and Counterfactuals

    Location: Pittsburgh Room B

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Fall 2025 Midwest Macroeconomics Meeting

Detailed List of Sessions

 
Session 1: Central Bank Communication and Monetary Policy
November 13, 2025 8:30 to 10:00
Location: Cleveland Room
 
Session Chair: Yuchen Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
 

Speaking of Inflation: The Influence of Fed Speeches on Expectations
   Presented by: Eleonora Granziera, Norges Bank
 

Market's Time-Varying Sensitivity to Macro News and Monetary Policy: the Role of Attention
   Presented by: Xueliang Wang, University of California, Irvine
 

Monetary Policy, Diagnostic Expectations, and Customer Capital
   Presented by: Yuchen Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
 
Session 2: Asset Pricing in Macro Models
November 13, 2025 8:30 to 10:00
Location: Cincinnati Room A
 
Session Chair: Zachary Stangebye, University of Notre Dame
 

Labor-based asset pricing
   Presented by: Vladimir Smirnyagin, University of Virginia
 

Sovereign Default and Labor Market Dynamics
   Presented by: Hewei Shen, University of Oklahoma
 

Risk-aversion or inter temporal substitutability? Rethinking emerging market debt pricing
   Presented by: Zachary Stangebye, University of Notre Dame
 
Session 3: Import Tariffs
November 13, 2025 8:30 to 10:00
Location: Cincinnati Room B
 
Session Chair: Ji Hye Heo, Oberlin College
 

Incomplete Tariff Pass-Through at the Firm-level: Evidence from the U.S.-China Trade Dispute
   Presented by: Chang Liu, Stony Brook University
 

Tariff Policy with an Exorbitant Privilege
   Presented by: Roozbeh Hosseini, University of Georgia
 

Export Dynamics with Product Proximity
   Presented by: Ji Hye Heo, Oberlin College
 
Session 4: Macroeconomics and Public Finance
November 13, 2025 8:30 to 10:00
Location: Pittsburgh Room A
 
Session Chair: Eva Carceles-Poveda, Stony Brook
 

Optimal Redistribution Policy with Labor Market Monopsony
   Presented by: Yena Park, Seoul National University
 

The Rise of Pass-throughs: A Quantitative Exploration
   Presented by: Sebastian Dyrda, University of Toronto
 

On the Taxation of Private Retirement Wealth
   Presented by: Eva Carceles-Poveda, Stony Brook
 
Session 5: Macroeconometrics
November 13, 2025 8:30 to 10:00
Location: Pittsburgh Room B
 
Session Chair: Alessia Scudiero, Emory University
 

Long-lag VARs
   Presented by: Andreas Westermark, Sveriges Riksbank
 

How Well Are State-Dependent Local Projections Capturing the Nonlinearity?
   Presented by: Zhiheng You, University of Pennsylvania
 

Impulse Response Functions in Time Varying VARs: A Clustered Local Projections Approach
   Presented by: Alessia Scudiero, Emory University
 
Session 6: Inflation, Expectations, and Uncertainty
November 13, 2025 10:15 to 12:15
Location: Cleveland Room
 
Session Chair: Giuseppe Fiori, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserv
 

Long-run Inflation Expectations
   Presented by: Jonas Fisher, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
 

State-Dependent Sticky Expectations: Evidence and Theory
   Presented by: Kenneth Eva, University of Pennsylvania
 

Belief Distortions and Uncertainty about Inflation
   Presented by: Valeria Patella, Sapienza University Rome
 

The Effects of Uncertainty on Firms’ Pricing Behavior and Activity
   Presented by: Giuseppe Fiori, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserv
 
Session 7: Bank Funding and Monetary Policy
November 13, 2025 10:15 to 12:15
Location: Cincinnati Room A
 
Session Chair: Nicole Fleskes, Rice University
 

The Effect of Monetary Policy on Systemic Bank Funding Stability
   Presented by: Maximilian Grimm, University of Bonn
 

The Uninsured Deposit Premium
   Presented by: Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
 

Banking and Monetary Policy with Central Bank Digital Currency
   Presented by: Ayse Sapci, Utah State University
 

Liquidity Crises and Endogenous Dealer Capacity in Over-the-Counter Markets
   Presented by: Nicole Fleskes, Rice University
 
Session 8: Long-run Issues: Environment and Aging
November 13, 2025 10:15 to 12:15
Location: Cincinnati Room B
 
Session Chair: Eric Huang, International Monetary Fund
 

The Aggregate Green Elasticity of Substitution
   Presented by: Rui Sousa, Northwestern University
 

Spillovers and the Direction of Innovation: An Application to the Clean Energy Transition
   Presented by: Eric Donald, University of Pittsburgh
 

Higher Education Policies and Spatial Inequality Across US States
   Presented by: Sang Min Lee, University of South Carolina
 

A Silver Lining in the Silver Economy: Macroeconomic Implications of Healthy Aging
   Presented by: Eric Huang, International Monetary Fund
 
Session 9: Labor Market Interactions with Policy
November 13, 2025 10:15 to 12:15
Location: Pittsburgh Room A
 
Session Chair: Serdar Birinci, Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis
 

An Information-based Theory of Monopsony Power
   Presented by: Anton Cheremukhin, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
 

Signals, Interviews, and Hiring in Labor Market Equilibrium
   Presented by: Ryan Michaels, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
 

The Labor Demand and Labor Supply Channels of Monetary Policy
   Presented by: Christopher Huckfeldt, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
 

The Implications of Labor Market Heterogeneity on Unemployment Insurance Design
   Presented by: Serdar Birinci, Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis
 
Session 10: Social Insurance and Family
November 13, 2025 10:15 to 12:15
Location: Pittsburgh Room B
 
Session Chair: Yongsung Chang, Bank of Korea and Seoul National University
 

Automated Credit Limit Increases and Consumer Welfare
   Presented by: Patrick Moran, Federal Reserve Board, CEBI, and IFS
 

Low-Income Support and Human Capital: A Long-Run Analysis of EITC Reforms
   Presented by: Irina Popova, University of Bonn
 

Income Pooling and Within Household Risk-Sharing: Evidence from Data on Individual Expenditures
   Presented by: Sara Casella, Luiss University, EIEF
 

Spousal Labor Response to Primary Income: Identification and Heterogeneity
   Presented by: Yongsung Chang, Bank of Korea and Seoul National University
 
Session 11: Inflation and the Business Cycle
November 13, 2025 14:00 to 16:00
Location: Cleveland Room
 
Session Chair: Antoine Lepetit, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
 

New Keynesian Economics through the Extensive Margin
   Presented by: Akira Ishide, The University of Tokyo
 

Rationing Under Sticky Prices
   Presented by: Tom Holden, Deutsche Bundesbank
 

Reconciling Wage and Price Phillips Curves
   Presented by: David Osten, Johns Hopkins University
 

Inflation dynamics without the independence assumption
   Presented by: Antoine Lepetit, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
 
Session 12: Banking System and Lending
November 13, 2025 14:00 to 16:00
Location: Cincinnati Room A
 
Session Chair: Nicholas Yi, Michigan State University
 

Official Lending and Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises
   Presented by: Sanghwa Moon, The Ohio State University
 

Debt Flexibility
   Presented by: Margaret Jacobson, Federal Reserve Board
 

A Quantitative Model of Bank Mergers
   Presented by: Charles Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 

Supply Chains and Banking Structures in the Macroeconomy
   Presented by: Nicholas Yi, Michigan State University
 
Session 13: Growth and Spatial issues
November 13, 2025 14:00 to 16:00
Location: Cincinnati Room B
 
Session Chair: Tommaso Bighelli, Bank of England
 

R&D Subsidies and the Geography of Innovation
   Presented by: Alexandre Sollaci, International Monetary Fund
 

Industrial Specialization and Regional Growth
   Presented by: Lukas Boehnert,
 

Financial Development and Endogenous Investment-Specific Technical Change
   Presented by: Daeeun Bae,
 

The Contribution of Declining Corporate taxes to deindustrialization
   Presented by: Tommaso Bighelli, Bank of England
 
Session 14: Fiscal Policy and Public Debt
November 13, 2025 14:00 to 16:00
Location: Pittsburgh Room A
 
Session Chair: Filippo Occhino, Kennesaw State University
 

Debt, Inflation, and Government Reputation
   Presented by: Alberto Ramirez de Aguilar, Banco de México
 

Fiscal Policy, Portfolio Frictions, and International Transmission
   Presented by: Marcos Mac Mullen, Federal Reserve Board
 

Public Debt and Interest Rates
   Presented by: Erick Sager, Federal Reserve Board
 

Investment Expensing Without Tax Credits or Interest Deductibility: A Macroeconomic Evaluation
   Presented by: Filippo Occhino, Kennesaw State University
 
Session 15: Firm Organization and Labor Markets
November 13, 2025 14:00 to 16:00
Location: Pittsburgh Room B
 
Session Chair: Anni Isojaervi, Federal Reserve Board
 

Internal Meets External: the Role of Promotion in the Labor Market
   Presented by: Xinyi Peng, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 

Implications of Narrow Framing for Firm Dynamics
   Presented by: Haoran Wang, University of Maryland
 

External and Internal Markets for Managers
   Presented by: Gabriel Toledo, Purdue University
 

Are earnings inequality and firm concentration connected? Evidence from an assignment model
   Presented by: Anni Isojaervi, Federal Reserve Board
 
Session 16: Fiscal and Monetary Policies
November 13, 2025 16:15 to 17:45
Location: Cleveland Room
 
Session Chair: Alex Houtz, University of Notre Dame
 

Sticky Inflation: Monetary Policy when Debt Drags Inflation Expectations
   Presented by: Dejanir Silva, Purdue University
 

Does Unconventional Monetary and Fiscal Policy Contribute to the COVID Inflation Surge?
   Presented by: Yinxi Xie, Indiana University, Bloomington
 

How Government Debt Shocks Impact the Economy
   Presented by: Alex Houtz, University of Notre Dame
 
Session 17: Labor Market Sorting
November 13, 2025 16:15 to 17:45
Location: Cincinnati Room A
 
Session Chair: Luke Rawling, Queen's University
 

Who Competes for Whom? Monopsony in Ability-Based Segmented Labor Markets
   Presented by: Luca Lorenzini, UCLA Anderson
 

Sorting into Entrepreneurial Teams
   Presented by: Luca Mazzone, CERGE-EI
 

Networks, Sorting, and the Productivity Implications of Immigrant Assimilation
   Presented by: Luke Rawling, Queen's University
 
Session 18: International Trade
November 13, 2025 16:15 to 17:45
Location: Cincinnati Room B
 
Session Chair: Enrico Cristoforoni,
 

Capital Accumulation, Trade, and China’s Economic Rise
   Presented by: Marla Ripoll, University of Pittsburgh
 

Breaking the Chain: Supply Chain Disruptions and Terms-of-Trade Amplification
   Presented by: Pedro Simon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 

International Prices, Domestic Wages, and Labor Market Power
   Presented by: Enrico Cristoforoni,
 
Session 19: Social Security and Retirement
November 13, 2025 16:15 to 17:45
Location: Pittsburgh Room A
 
Session Chair: Selahattin Imrohoroglu, University of Southern California
 

Revisiting Retirement and Social Security Claiming Decisions
   Presented by: Kathleen McKiernan, Vanderbilt University
 

Early Access to Social Security Wealth: A Welfare Analysis
   Presented by: Carla Moreno, Loyola Marymount University
 

Aging, Population Projections, and Public Pensions
   Presented by: Selahattin Imrohoroglu, University of Southern California
 
Session 20: Market Structure and Firm Dynamics
November 13, 2025 16:15 to 17:45
Location: Pittsburgh Room B
 
Session Chair: Geumbi Park, Texas A&M University
 

Employment effects, minimum wage and oligopsonistic competition
   Presented by: Horacio Rueda, University of Houston
 

The Aggregate Welfare Effects of Nonlinear Prices in Supply Chains
   Presented by: Antonio Martner, UCLA
 

Product Market Dynamics over the Business Cycle
   Presented by: Geumbi Park, Texas A&M University
 
Session 21: Expectations, Uncertainty, and the Macroeconomy
November 14, 2025 8:30 to 10:00
Location: Cleveland Room
 
Session Chair: Yeji Sung, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
 

The effect of inflation uncertainty on household expectations and spending
   Presented by: Olena Kostyshyna, Bank of Canada
 

Dissecting Trade Uncertainty
   Presented by: Sai Ma, Federal Reserve Board
 

Recency Effects in Perceived Uncertainty
   Presented by: Yeji Sung, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
 
Session 22: International Finance
November 14, 2025 8:30 to 10:00
Location: Cincinnati Room A
 
Session Chair: Daniel Sanches, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
 

Currency Basket Co-movements
   Presented by: Andrey Ermolov, Fordham University
 

U.S. Liquid Government Liabilities and Emerging Market Capital Flows
   Presented by: Annie Lee, Johns Hopkins University
 

Stablecoins and Cross-Border Finance
   Presented by: Daniel Sanches, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
 
Session 23: Health, Labor Supply, and Savings
November 14, 2025 8:30 to 10:00
Location: Cincinnati Room B
 
Session Chair: Svetlana Pashchenko, University of Georgia
 

Health Capital, Labor Market Frictions, and Wage Inequality
   Presented by: Mengxi Wan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 

An Evaluation of Social Security Reforms: Policy Substitution and Redistributive Consequences
   Presented by: Soojin Kim, Georgia State University
 

Saving Motives over the Life-Cycle
   Presented by: Svetlana Pashchenko, University of Georgia
 
Session 24: Sovereign Default
November 14, 2025 8:30 to 10:00
Location: Pittsburgh Room A
 
Session Chair: Gabriel Mihalache, Ohio State University
 

Public and Private Investment Under Sovereign Risk
   Presented by: Juliana Gamboa-Arbelaez, University of Minnesota
 

Informality, Fiscal Policy, and Sovereign Default
   Presented by: Sihyun Kim, Washington University in Saint Louis
 

World Financial Cycles and Global Trade
   Presented by: Gabriel Mihalache, Ohio State University
 
Session 25: Labor Market Fluctuations
November 14, 2025 8:30 to 10:00
Location: Pittsburgh Room B
 
Session Chair: Kathrin Ellieroth, Colby College
 

Resurrecting High Discounts and High Unemployment
   Presented by: Pierlauro Lopez, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
 

Heterogeneous Beliefs and Cyclical Labor Market Dynamics
   Presented by: Jenny Siqin Ding, University of Maryland
 

Quits, Layoffs, and Labor Supply
   Presented by: Kathrin Ellieroth, Colby College
 
Session 26: Firm Heterogeneity and Monetary Policy
November 14, 2025 10:15 to 12:15
Location: Cleveland Room
 
Session Chair: Julien Weber, NYU
 

Beyond Costs: The Dominant Role of Strategic Complementarities in Pricing
   Presented by: Marco Rojas, Banco Central de Chile
 

Rationally Inattentive Seller: The Geographic Dispersion of U.S. Retail Chains and its Aggregate Implications
   Presented by: Edson Wu, Federal Reserve Board
 

The Inventory Decelerator for Monetary Policy
   Presented by: Wentao Zhou, Michigan State University
 

Monetary policy, industry leaders, and growth
   Presented by: Julien Weber, NYU
 
Session 27: Technology and Growth
November 14, 2025 10:15 to 12:15
Location: Cincinnati Room A
 
Session Chair: Nasir Hossein Dad, Boise State University
 

Trimming the Tree to Help It Grow: Selective Exit and Productivity Growth in China’s State Sector
   Presented by: Yutong Zhong, University of Minnesota
 

Self-Selection and the Diminishing Returns of Research
   Presented by: Kai-Jie Wu, Pennsylvania State University
 

Does Monopsony Matter for Innovation?
   Presented by: Nils Lehr, International Monetary Fund
 

Lobbying, Innovation and Aggregate Productivity
   Presented by: Nasir Hossein Dad, Boise State University
 
Session 28: Urban Economics
November 14, 2025 10:15 to 12:15
Location: Cincinnati Room B
 
Session Chair: John Mondragon, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
 

United in Booms, Divided in Busts: Regional House Price Cycles and Monetary Policy
   Presented by: Hannes Twieling, University of Mannheim
 

Geospatial Heterogeneity in Inflation: A Market Concentration Story
   Presented by: Michael Navarrete, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
 

Home Size, Residential Density, and Aggregate Demand
   Presented by: Daniel Murphy, University of Virginia
 

Supply Constraints do not Explain House Price and Quantity Growth Across U.S. Cities
   Presented by: Schuyler Louie, UC Irvine
 
Session 29: Tax Reforms and Insurance
November 14, 2025 10:15 to 12:15
Location: Pittsburgh Room A
 
Session Chair: Joao Ayres, Inter-American Development Bank
 

The Insurance Value of Public Insurance Against Idiosyncratic Income Risk
   Presented by: Rocio Madera, Southern Methodist University
 

Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Costly Self-Control
   Presented by: Zoe Xie, World Bank
 

Designing Optimal Progressive Taxation under Hours Constraints
   Presented by: Kitae Cho, University of Virginia
 

Labor Income Tax Progressivity with a Large Informal Sector
   Presented by: Joao Ayres, Inter-American Development Bank
 
Session 30: Income and Wealth Dynamics
November 14, 2025 10:15 to 12:15
Location: Pittsburgh Room B
 
Session Chair: Lichen Zhang, University of Hong Kong
 

Racial Differences in Consumption and Saving Behavior: New Survey Evidence and Quantitative Theory of Status Signaling
   Presented by: Aina Puig, American University
 

The Role of Parental Altruism in Parents Consumption, College Financial Support, and Outcomes in Higher Education
   Presented by: Agustin Diaz, Central Bank of Chile
 

Self-Employment Dynamics and the Great Recession
   Presented by: Jiani Liu, The Ohio State University
 

When Meritocracy Fails: College Expansion and the Rise of Intergenerational Persistence
   Presented by: Lichen Zhang, University of Hong Kong
 
Session 31: Sovereign Debt and Monetary Policy
November 14, 2025 14:00 to 16:00
Location: Cleveland Room
 
Session Chair: Joseph Abadi, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
 

The Macroeconomic Effects of Sovereign Risk: New Evidence from U.S. Debt Ceiling Episodes
   Presented by: Dario Cardamone, University of Notre Dame
 

Trade Credit, Risk Sharing, and International Spillovers of US Monetary Policy
   Presented by: Mariana Sans, University of Maryland
 

Volatile Rates, Fragile Growth: Global Financial Risk and Productivity Dynamics
   Presented by: Nils Mattis Gornemann, Federal Reserve Board
 

International Currency Dominance
   Presented by: Joseph Abadi, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
 
Session 32: Firms' Financing Frictions
November 14, 2025 14:00 to 16:00
Location: Cincinnati Room A
 
Session Chair: Hyein Han, New York University
 

Financial frictions, technological adoption, and corporate emissions
   Presented by: German Villegas Bauer, IMF
 

Maturity Walls
   Presented by: Philip Coyle, Study Center Gerzensee
 

Good Inflation, Bad Inflation, and the Dynamics of Credit Risk
   Presented by: Ram Yamarthy, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
 

Granular Firms and Endogenous Risk Premia
   Presented by: Hyein Han, New York University
 
Session 33: Life-Cycle Models and Household Finance
November 14, 2025 14:00 to 16:00
Location: Cincinnati Room B
 
Session Chair: Neha Bairoliya, University of Southern California
 

Why Do Households Save and Work?
   Presented by: Johanna Torres Chain, University of Minnesota
 

Dynamic Racial Wealth Inequality Accounting, 1860 – 2020
   Presented by: Teegawende Zeida, Brock University
 

Social Security and Racial Disparities
   Presented by: Shabnam Shahrezaei, Emory University
 

End-of-Life Liquidity
   Presented by: Neha Bairoliya, University of Southern California
 
Session 34: Corporate Finance
November 14, 2025 14:00 to 16:00
Location: Pittsburgh Room A
 
Session Chair: Daniele Coen-Pirani, University of Pittsburgh
 

Implications of Market Power for Financial Frictions
   Presented by: Mahdi Ebsim, New York University
 

Firm Heterogeneity and Adverse Selection in External Finance: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications
   Presented by: Xing Guo, Bank of Canada
 

Trade credit in a developing country: the role of large suppliers in the production network
   Presented by: Mauro Cazzaniga, MIT Sloan
 

Do Mergers Increase Markups? Evidence from U.S. Public Firms
   Presented by: Daniele Coen-Pirani, University of Pittsburgh
 
Session 35: Public Finance and Heterogeneity
November 14, 2025 14:00 to 16:00
Location: Pittsburgh Room B
 
Session Chair: Thomas Bourany, Columbia University
 

Universal Basic Income in an Entrepreneurial Economy
   Presented by: Farouk Awal, University of Calgary
 

Climate Change and International Migration
   Presented by: Mauricio Barbosa-Alves, University of Kentucky
 

Paying Students to Graduate from High School: Aggregate and Distributive Consequences
   Presented by: Leonardo Lima,
 

Climate Change, Inequality and Optimal Climate Policy
   Presented by: Thomas Bourany, Columbia University
 
Session 36: Heterogeneity and the Business Cycle
November 14, 2025 16:15 to 17:45
Location: Cleveland Room
 
Session Chair: Giovanni Sciacovelli, Northwestern University
 

Which US States Suffered a Greater Great Depression and Why?
   Presented by: Mario Crucini, Purdue University
 

Tradeoffs for the poor, divine coincidence for the rich
   Presented by: Donggyu Lee, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
 

Monetary Policy Transmission Through Adjustable-Rate Mortgages in the Euro Area
   Presented by: Giovanni Sciacovelli, Northwestern University
 
Session 37: Wage Determination
November 14, 2025 16:15 to 17:45
Location: Cincinnati Room A
 
Session Chair: Hie Joo Ahn, Federal Reserve Board
 

Learning on the Job
   Presented by: William Jungerman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
 

Wage Adjustment: A Network Approach
   Presented by: Kanat Isakov, University of Maryland
 

Latent Worker Dynamics and Wage Changes: A Pocket of Vulnerability
   Presented by: Hie Joo Ahn, Federal Reserve Board
 
Session 38: Uneven Growth
November 14, 2025 16:15 to 17:45
Location: Cincinnati Room B
 
Session Chair: Adam Spencer, University of Bonn
 

One Production Function
   Presented by: Nick Pretnar, University of California, Santa Barbara
 

Ready, Set, Unify: The Uneven Race between Trabants and BMWs
   Presented by: Matthias Mertens, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 

Heterogeneous Firms, Growth and the Long Shadows of Business Cycles
   Presented by: Adam Spencer, University of Bonn
 
Session 39: Supply Chain Networks
November 14, 2025 16:15 to 17:45
Location: Pittsburgh Room A
 
Session Chair: Yasutaka Koike-Mori, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 

Endogenous Supplier Sourcing under Supply Chain Risk and its Macro Implications
   Presented by: Manchun Wang, Boston College
 

On the Importance of Manufacturing Order Books
   Presented by: Bjarne Horst, University of Mannheim
 

Production Networks and R&D Misallocation
   Presented by: Yasutaka Koike-Mori, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 
Session 40: Quantitative Methods: Local Projections and Counterfactuals
November 14, 2025 16:15 to 17:45
Location: Pittsburgh Room B
 
Session Chair: Joaquin Garcia-Cabo, Federal Reserve Board
 

Computation of Policy Counterfactuals in Sequence Space
   Presented by: Fabian Winkler, Federal Reserve Board
 

Projected Local Projections
   Presented by: Sean McCrary, Ohio State University
 

Expanding the Labor Market Lens: Two New Eurozone Labor Indicators
   Presented by: Joaquin Garcia-Cabo, Federal Reserve Board
 

40 sessions, 140 papers, and 0 presentations with no associated papers
 
Index of Participants

Legend: C=chair, P=Presenter, D=Discussant
#ParticipantRoles in Conference
1Abadi, JosephP31, C31
2Ahn, Hie JooP37, C37
3Awal, FaroukP35
4Ayres, JoaoP29, C29
5Bae, DaeeunP13
6Bairoliya, NehaP33, C33
7Barbosa-Alves, MauricioP35
8Bighelli, TommasoP13, C13
9Birinci, SerdarP9, C9
10Boehnert, LukasP13
11Bourany, ThomasP35, C35
12Carceles-Poveda, EvaP4, C4
13Cardamone, DarioP31
14Casella, SaraP10
15Cazzaniga, MauroP34
16Chang, YongsungP10, C10
17Chen, YuchenP1, C1
18Cheremukhin, AntonP9
19Cho, KitaeP29
20Coen-Pirani, DanieleP34, C34
21Coyle, PhilipP32
22Cristoforoni, EnricoP18, C18
23Crucini, MarioP36
24Diaz, AgustinP30
25Ding, Jenny SiqinP25
26Donald, EricP8
27Dyrda, SebastianP4
28Ebsim, MahdiP34
29Ellieroth, KathrinP25, C25
30Ermolov, AndreyP22
31Eva, KennethP6
32Fiori, GiuseppeP6, C6
33Fisher, JonasP6
34Fleskes, NicoleP7, C7
35Gamboa-Arbelaez, JulianaP24
36Garcia-Cabo, JoaquinP40, C40
37Gornemann, Nils MattisP31
38Granziera, EleonoraP1
39Grimm, MaximilianP7
40Guo, XingP34
41Han, HyeinP32, C32
42Heo, Ji HyeP3, C3
43Holden, TomP11
44Horst, BjarneP39
45Hossein Dad, NasirP27, C27
46Hosseini, RoozbehP3
47Houtz, AlexP16, C16
48Huang, EricP8, C8
49Huckfeldt, ChristopherP9
50Imrohoroglu, SelahattinP19, C19
51Isakov, KanatP37
52Ishide, AkiraP11
53Isojaervi, AnniP15, C15
54Jacobson, MargaretP12
55Jungerman, WilliamP37
56Kim, SihyunP24
57Kim, SoojinP23
58Koike-Mori, YasutakaP39, C39
59Kostyshyna, OlenaP21
60Lee, AnnieP22
61Lee, Sang MinP8
62Lee, DonggyuP36
63Lehr, NilsP27
64Lepetit, AntoineP11, C11
65Lima, LeonardoP35
66Liu, ChangP3
67Liu, JianiP30
68Lopez, PierlauroP25
69Lorenzini, LucaP17
70Louie, SchuylerP28
71Ma, SaiP21
72Mac Mullen, MarcosP14
73Madera, RocioP29
74Martner, AntonioP20
75Mazzone, LucaP17
76McCrary, SeanP40
77McKiernan, KathleenP19
78Mertens, MatthiasP38
79Michaels, RyanP9
80Mihalache, GabrielP24, C24
81Mondragon, JohnC28
82Moon, SanghwaP12
83Moran, PatrickP10
84Moreno, CarlaP19
85Murphy, DanielP28
86Navarrete, MichaelP28
87Occhino, FilippoP14, C14
88Osten, DavidP11
89Park, YenaP4
90Park, GeumbiP20, C20
91Pashchenko, SvetlanaP23, C23
92Patella, ValeriaP6
93Peng, XinyiP15
94Popova, IrinaP10
95Pretnar, NickP38
96Puig, AinaP30
97Ramirez de Aguilar, AlbertoP14
98Rawling, LukeP17, C17
99Ripoll, MarlaP18
100Rojas, MarcoP26
101Rueda, HoracioP20
102Sager, ErickP14
103Sanches, DanielP22, C22
104Sans, MarianaP31
105Sapci, AyseP7
106Schmidt-Eisenlohr, TimP7
107Sciacovelli, GiovanniP36, C36
108Scudiero, AlessiaP5, C5
109Shahrezaei, ShabnamP33
110Shen, HeweiP2
111Silva, DejanirP16
112Simon, PedroP18
113Smirnyagin, VladimirP2
114Smith, CharlesP12
115Sollaci, AlexandreP13
116Sousa, RuiP8
117Spencer, AdamP38, C38
118Stangebye, ZacharyP2, C2
119Sung, YejiP21, C21
120Toledo, GabrielP15
121Torres Chain, JohannaP33
122Twieling, HannesP28
123Villegas Bauer, GermanP32
124Wan, MengxiP23
125Wang, HaoranP15
126Wang, ManchunP39
127Wang, XueliangP1
128Weber, JulienP26, C26
129Westermark, AndreasP5
130Winkler, FabianP40
131Wu, EdsonP26
132Wu, Kai-JieP27
133Xie, YinxiP16
134Xie, ZoeP29
135Yamarthy, RamP32
136Yi, NicholasP12, C12
137You, ZhihengP5
138Zeida, TeegawendeP33
139Zhang, LichenP30, C30
140Zhong, YutongP27
141Zhou, WentaoP26

 

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