Past Carnegie-Rochester-NYU Conferences

Taking place every November, each conference is organized around a particular theme or topic with papers prepared by leading scholars with expertise in the area. 

Participants are united by their interest in the issues discussed and by their belief that analysis, evidence, and informed discussion have lasting effects on the public and its institutions.

Day One Conference Sessions

Session I

• The Alpha Beta Gamma of the Labor Market
  Authors: Victoria Gregory, FRB Saint Louis; Guido Menzio, New York University and NBER; David Wiczer, Stony Brook University
  Discussant: Richard Rogerson, Princeton
• Occupational Reallocation Within and Across Firms: Implications for Labor-Market Polarization
  Authors: Toshihiko Mukoyama, Georgetown University; Naoki Takayama, Hitotsubashi University; Satoshi Tanaka, University of Queensland
  Discussant: Sergio Salgado, University of Pennsylvania
• Heterogeneous Job Ladders
  Authors: Katarína Borovičková, FRB Richmond; Claudia Macaluso, FRB Richmond
  Discussant: Gregor Jarosch, Duke

 Session II

• Joint Search over the Life Cycle
  Authors: Annika Bacher, BI Oslo; Philipp Grübener, Goethe University Frankfurt; Lukas Nord, FRB Minneapolis
  Discussant: Alessandra Fogli, FRB Minneapolis
• How to Fund Unemployment Insurance with Informality and False Claims: Evidence from Senegal
  Authors: Abdoulaye Ndiaye, New York University; Kyle Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota; Abdoulaye Cissé, UC Berkeley
  Discussant: Serdar Birinci, FRB St. Louis

Day Two Conference Sessions

Session III

• Preventative vs. Curative Medicine: A Macroeconomic Analysis of Health Care over the Life Cycle
  Author: Serdar Ozkan, FRB St. Louis
  Discussant: Svetlana Pashchenko, University of Georgia
• Shaping Inequality and Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty: Free College, Better Schools or Generous Transfers?
  Authors: Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania; Alexander Ludwig, Goethe University Frankfurt; Irina Popova, University of Bonn
  Discussant: Veronica Guerrieri, University of Chicago
• Time-Averaging and Taxation
  Authors: Hans A. Holter, University of Delaware; Lars Ljungqvist, New York University; Thomas J. Sargent, New York University; Serhiy Stepanchuk, University of Southampton
  Discussant: Richard Blundell, University College London