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September 9, 2022

Location:
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta or Zoom Webinar

Organized by Salome Baslandze, Simon Fuchs, Indrajit Mitra, and Veronika Penciakova

The Early Career Visitor Program Workshop brings together participants in the Atlanta Fed’s 2021 Early Career Visitor Program and aims to foster active exchange and discussion among economists on a wide range of topics.

Agenda

9:00 a.m.
Continental breakfast
9:45 Welcome remarks
10:00
"Living in a Ghost Town: The Geography of Depopulation and Aging"
Elisa Giannone, Pennsylvania State University
Yuhei Miyauchi, Boston University
Nuno Paixao, Bank of Canada
Xinle Pang, Pennsylvania State University
Yuta Suzuki, Pennsylvania State University
10:45
Break
11:00 "Heterogeneous Local Employment Multipliers: Evidence from Relocations of Public Entities in South Korea"
Wookun Kim, Southern Methodist University
Changsu Ko, Korea Institute of Public Finance
Hwanoong Lee, Korea Institute of Public Finance
11:45 Lunch
1:00 p.m. "The Cross-Sectional Implications of the Social Discount Rate"
Maya Eden, Brandeis University
1:45 Break
2:00 "Bonus Question: How Does Incentive Pay Affect Unemployment Dynamics?"
Abdoulaye Ndiaye, New York University
John Grigsby, Princeton University
Jonathan Hazell, Princeton University
3:00 "Racial Differences in Prices Paid for Same Goods"
Boyoung Seo, Indiana University
4:00 "Ambiguity and Unemployment Fluctuations"
Yu Xu, University of Delaware
Indrajit Mitra, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta