West Coast Search and Matching Workshop

Friday, May 26, 2017
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Portland Conference Room, 4th Floor
101 Market Street
San Francisco 94105

Session 1

Paper 1: Targeted Search in Matching Markets
Anton Cheremukhin, Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria and Antonella Tutino

Paper 2: On the Provision of Unemployment Insurance when Workers are Ex-ante Heterogeneous
Avihai Lifschitz, Offer Setty and Yaniv Yedid-Levi

Session 2

Paper 3: The Pervasive Importance of Tightness in Labor-Market Volatility
Robert E. Hall and Sam Schulhofer-Wohl

Session 3

Paper 4: Simultaneous Innovation and Economic Growth
Miroslav Gabrovski

Paper 5: The Role of Recruitment Costs in Hiring Fluctuations: Basic Theory and New Evidence
Yusuf Mercan and Benjamin Schoefer

Session 4

Paper 6: Core-Periphery Trading Networks
Chaojun Wang

Organizers: Gregor Jarosch and Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau