Thursday, February 19 |
| 1:00 p.m. |
Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Hidden Search Effort and Hidden Savings 
Melvyn Coles, University of Essex
Discussant
Ivan Werning, MIT |
| 2:00 |
Identifying Sorting, in Theory
Philipp Kircher, University of Pennsylvania (joint with Jan Eeckhout)
Discussant
Robert Shimer, University of Chicago |
| 3:00 |
Coffee |
| 3:15 |
Job Search with Bidder Memories
Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, University of Leicester (joint with Eric Smith)
Discussant
Guido Menzio, University of Pennsylvania |
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| 4:15 |
A Supply and Demand Model of the College Admissions Process
Hector Chade, Arizona State University (joint with Gregory Lewis and Lones Smith)
Discussant
Philipp Kircher, University of Pennsylvania |
| 5:15 |
Coffee
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| 5:30 |
Adverse Selection in Competitive Search Equilibrium
Veronica Guerrieri, University of Chicago (joint with Robert Shimer and Randall Wright)
Discussant
Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University |
| 7:30 |
Dinner |
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| Friday, February 20 |
| 9:00 a.m. |
The Establishment Level Behavior of Vacancies and Hiring
Steven Davis, University of Chicago (joint with Jason Faberman and John Haltiwanger)
Discussant
Richard Rogerson |
| 10:00 |
Coffee |
| 10:30 |
Housing Markets and Labor Markets: Time to Move and Aggregate Unemployment
Peter Rupert, University of California at Santa Barbara (joint with Etienne Wasmer)
Discussant
Nobu Kiyotaki, Princeton University |
| 11:30 |
Housing Liquidity, Mobility and the Labour Market
Allen Head, Queen's University (joint with Huw Lloyd-Ellis)
Discussant
Morris Davis, University of Wisconsin |
| 12:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
| 1:30 |
Trading Frictions and House Price Dynamics
John Leahy, New York University (joint with Andrew Caplin)
Discussant
Eric Smith, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta |
| 2:30 |
Towards a Theory of the Labor Market with a Public Sector
Ken Burdett, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant
Jim Albrecht, Georgetown University |
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