Barcelona GSE Summer Forum Balmes Building, Balmes 132 - Barcelona ECONOMIC GROWTH AND FLUCTUATIONS JUNE 13-14, 2019, Room 403 (Fourth Floor) PROGRAM FOR THURSDAY, JUNE 13 08:15 Registration Session 08:45 – 09:45 Matthew Delventhal (Claremont McKenna College) “Demographic Transitions Across Time and Space” (with Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde and Nezih Guner) 09:45 – 10:45 Adrien Auclert (Standford University) “Wealth and Demographics in the 21st Century” (with Hannes Malmberg and Frederic Martenet) 10:45 Coffee Break* Session 11:15 – 12:15 Rohan Kekre (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business) “Redistribution, Risk Premia, and the Macroeconomy” (with Moritz Lenel) 12:15 – 13:15 Kyle Dempsey (Ohio State University) “Lending Standards and Consumption Insurance over the Business Cycle” (with Felicia Ionescu) 13:15 Lunch* Session 14:15 – 15:15 Gregor Jarosch (Princeton University) “Granular Search, Market Structure and Wages” (with Jan Sebastian Nimczik and Isaac Sorkin) 15:15 – 16:15 Rasmus Lentz (University of Wisconsin-Madison) “Training and Search On the Job” (with Nicolas Roys) 16:15 Coffee Break* Session 16:45 – 17:45 Ernest Liu (Princeton University) “Low Interest Rates, Market Power, and Productivity Growth” (with Atif Mian and Amir Sufi) 20:30 Workshop Dinner* PROGRAM FOR FRIDAY, JUNE 14 Session 08:45 – 09:45 Cezar Santos (Bank of Portugal and Getulio Vargas Foundation) “Dispersion in Financing Costs and Development” (with Tiago Cavalcanti, Joe Kaboski and Bruno Martins) 09:45 – 10:45 Lei Fang (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta) “High-Skilled Services and Development in China” (with Berthold Herrendorf) 10:45 Coffee Break* Session 11:15 – 12:15 Kyle Herkenhoff (University of Minnesota) “Labor Market Power” (with David Berger and Simon Mongey) 12:15 – 13:15 Claudia Macaluso (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) “Concentration in U.S Local Labor Markets: Evidence from Vacancy and Employment Data” (with Brad Hershbein and Chen Yeh) 13:15 Lunch* Session 14:15 – 15:15 Titan Alon (Princeton and UC San Diego) “A Theory of Human Capital Specialization” (with Daniel Fershtman) 15:15 – 16:15 Tommaso Porzio (UCSD) “Does Schooling Cause Structural Transformation?” (with Gabriella Santangelo) 16:15 Coffee Break* Session 16:45 – 17:45 Corina Boar (New York University) “Markups and Inequality” (with Virgiliu Midrigan) Workshop Organizers: DAVID LAGAKOS (University of California, San Diego) KURT MITMAN (IIES, Stockholm) RAÜL SANTAEULÀLIA-LLOPIS (MOVE, UAB and Barcelona GSE) LUDO VISSCHERS (University of Edinburgh) The organizers gratefully acknowledge financial support from XXXXX through the XXXX The Barcelona GSE Summer Forum is an initiative of the Severo Ochoa Research Program 2016-2019 (SEV2015-0563) of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities * Meals are provided by the organization