MacroMontréal | Centre interuniversitaire sur le risque, |
Symposium on Labor Market Frictions
and the Business Cycle
Thursday – May 30, 2013
HEC Montréal
3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal
Serge-Saucier room – 1st Floor
Call for papers
MacroMontreal, HEC Montreal, and CIRPEE will host the “Symposium on Labor Market Frictions and the Business Cycle” on Thursday, May 30th, 2013.
The meeting will bring together researchers working on empirical and theoretical aspects of macroeconomics, focusing on the impact on business cycle and economic policy of search frictions in the labor market, workers heterogeneity and worker-employer matching.
REGISTRATION: Participation is restricted to registered participants, and is free of charge. To participate to the Symposium, please email Renee.Bouchard@hec.ca.
LOCATION: The Symposium will take place at the main building of HEC Montreal on 3000, Chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal. The same building will also host the sessions of the CEA 2013 meeting. Directions to HEC Montreal are available at http://www.hec.ca/en/campus/directions/index.html.
FURTHER INFORMATION: For travel, accommodation and any other information please consult the CEA 2013 website at http://economics.ca/2013/en/.
PROGRAM
8:45 - 9:30 | The Cyclicality of Search Intensity in a Competitive Search Model
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9:30-10:30 | Recall and Unemployment Discussant: Ryan Michaels, University of Rochester |
10:30-10:50 | COFFEE BREAK |
10:50-11:50 | Mismatch Shocks and Unemployment During the Great Recession Discussant: Makoto Nakajima, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia |
12:00-13:30 | LUNCH |
13:30-14:30 | Keynote Lecture The Great Recession through the Lens of Equilibrium Unemployment Theory |
14:30-15:30 | Slow Recoveries, Worker Heterogeneity, and the Zero Lower Bound Discussant: Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau |
15:30-15:50 | COFFEE BREAK |
15:50-16:50 | Job Search Behaviour over the Business Cycle Discussant: Rigas Oikonomou, HEC Montréal |
