Micro-Macro Labor Economics Annual Conference

Date

Friday, Dec 11, 2026

Location

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Topics

Labor MarketsMacroeconomicsMicroeconomicsU.S. Economy

Welcoming Remarks

Speaker:

Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Chair:

Lindsey Uniat, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

The Churn Ladder

Authors:

Lawrence Warren, U.S. Census Bureau
David Wiczer, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Discussant:

Ryan Michael, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Fabian Postel-Vinay, Southern Methodist University

A Hidden Markov Model of Wages and Employment Mobility with Worker and Firm Heterogeneity: Evidence from Italian Register Data

Authors:

Long Hong, Arizona State University

Rasmus Letnz, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jean-March Robin, Sciences-Po

Discussant:

Hie Joo Ahn, Board of Governors
Katka Borovickova, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Chair:

Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

How Do Intermediaries Shape Labor Market Efficiency? An Equilibrium Model and Experimental Evidence

Authors:

Daniel Haanwinckel, University of California – Los Angeles

Navdeep S. Sahni, Stanford University
Caio Waisman, Northwestern University

Discussant:

Gorkem Bostanci, University of British Columbia
Peter Kuhn, University of California – Santa Barbara

Keynote Session

Keynote Speaker:

Philipp Kircher, Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and of Economics, Cornell University

Chair:

Sydnee Caldwell, University of California – Berkeley

Why Don’t Old Firms Do New Things?

Authors:

Nicolas Crouzet, Northwestern University
Zhiguo He, Stanford University

Victor Lyonnet, University of Michigan
Yueran Ma, University of Chicago

Discussant:

Engin Atalay, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Huiyu Li, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Why Do Americans No Longer Work So Much More Than Non-Americans?

Authors:

Serdar Birinci, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Loukas Karabarbounis, University of Minnesota and FRB Minneapolis
Kurt See, National University of Singapore

Discussants:

Lee Ohanian, University of California – Los Angeles
Matthieu Tascherau-Dumouchel, Cornell University

Conference Organizers:
Sydnee Caldwell, Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, and Lindsey Uniat