| Thursday, October 3, 2013 | |
| Box lunch | |
| 1:00 | Welcome Dennis Lockhart, president and chief executive officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta |
| Session 1, Azalea Room Moderator Melinda Pitts, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta |
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| 1:15 | "Measuring Matching Efficiency with Heterogeneous Jobseekers" Presenter: Sam Schulhofer-Wohl, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Coauthor: Robert E. Hall Discussant: Ayşegül Şahin, Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
| 2:15 | "Mobility within Currency Unions" Presenter: Iván Werning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Discussant: Thomas Philippon, New York University |
| 3:15 | Break |
| 3:35 | "Do Extended Unemployment Benefits Lengthen Unemployment Spells? Evidence from Recent Cycles in the U.S. Labor Market"  Presenter: Henry S. Farber, Princeton University Coauthor: Rob Valletta Discussant: John Kennan, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| 4:35 | "Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment in the Great Recession: The Role of Macro Effects" Presenter: Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania Coauthors: Marcus Hagedorn, Fatih Karahan, and Kurt Mitman Discussant: Jesse Rothstein, University of California–Berkeley |
| 5:45 | Reception |
| 6:15 | Dinner Peachtree-Piedmont Dining Room |
| Friday, October 4, 2013 | |
| 8:00 a.m. | Continental breakfast |
| Session 2, Azalea Room Moderator Richard Rogerson, Princeton University |
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| 8:30 | "Wage Adjustment in the Great Recession" Presenter: Michael Elsby, University of Edinburgh Coauthors: Donggyun Shin and Gary Solon Discussant: Bart Hobijn, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco |
| 9:30 | "How Sticky Wages in Existing Jobs Can Affect Hiring" Presenter: Yongsung Chang, University of Rochester Coauthors: Mark Bils and Sun-Bin Kim Discussant: Marianna Kudlyak, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 10:50 | "Worker Flows over the Business Cycle: The Role of Firm Quality" Presenter: Lisa Kahn, Yale University Coauthor: Erika McEntarfer Discussant: Chris Foote, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston |
| Noon | Lunch Peachtree-Piedmont Dining Room Keynote Speaker: Ed Lazear, Stanford University "The New Normal? Productivity and Employment during the Recession and Recovery" |
| "Did the Job Ladder Fail after the Great Recession?" Presenter: Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University Coauthor: Fabien Postel-Vinay Discussant: Rob Valletta, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco |
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| 2:30 | "Effects of the Affordable Care Act on the Amount and Composition of Labor Market Activity" Presenter: Casey Mulligan, University of Chicago Coauthor: Trevor Gallen Discussant: Mary Daly, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco |
| 3:30 | Closing Remarks Dave Altig, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta |
| 3:45 | Adjournment |