5 May, 2017 9:00 am–4:30 pm
Conference
Location
Hand-Purvis Conference Room 213, Dunning Hall

PROGRAM

 

9:00 - 9:30 a.m.        Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:30 - 10:30 a.m.      Brant Abbott (Queen's University)
                                 "'Permanent Income' Inequality" (with Giovanni Gallipoli)

10:30 - 11:00 a.m.    Break

11:00 - 12:00 p.m.    Mariacristina De Nardi (University College London and FRB Chicago)
                                  "The Aggregate Implications of Gender and Marriage” (with Margherita Borella and Fang Yang)

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.      Lunch

1:00 - 2:00 p.m.        Mark Huggett (Georgetown University)
                                  "Taxing Top Earners: Two Views" (with Alejandro Badel)
 
2:00 - 2:15 p.m.        Break

2:15 - 3:15 p.m.        Greg Kaplan (University of Chicago)
                                  "When Inequality Matters for Macro and Macro Matters for Inequality" (with SeHyoun Ahn, Benjamin Moll, Thomas Winberry and Christian Wolf)
 
3:15 - 3:30 p.m.        Break

3:30 - 4:30 p.m.        Narayana Kocherlakota (University of Rochester)

                                  "Existence and Non-Existence of Equilibrium: A Fresh Look at the Dangers of the Zero Lower Bound"
 
6:30 p.m.                   Reception

7:30 p.m.                   Dinner