Paper Submission

Several countries have now record high levels of public debt that are comparable to the ones inherited from WWII. This creates challenges for both fiscal sustainability and the conduct of monetary policy. This session aims to bring together scholars working at the intersection of monetary policy, fiscal policy and sustainability, and the valuation of government debt. What role do central banks play in creating fiscal space for governments? Is there a possibility of fiscal dominance going forward? How does this possibility affect asset prices and the creation of safe assets? Could the erosion of the U.S. fiscal position threaten its reserve currency role? Both applied and theoretical contributions are welcome. The goal is to have a lively discussion enriched by a variety of perspectives.

The idea of this session is to bring together labor economists and macroeconomists with interests in labor markets with two goals. The first goal is to be a venue to discuss the latest research about labor markets. The second goal is to promote intellectual exchange among scholars working on similar topics, but with different approaches. Specific topics will depend on the submissions. We will have a graduate student session of short talks for students going on the market in 2024-2025.

This session will bring together researchers from political science and economics who apply economic theory to the study of politics. This includes work in the areas of voting theory, political bargaining, policy-making and implementation, lobbying and regulation, and the media and information environment in which politics takes place. The session will encourage productive dialogue between researchers in economic theory that have developed ideas and tools relevant to the study of politics, and those in political science who study questions and topics that can be addressed by economic theory.

This is a segment exploring the latest papers in climate finance and banking.

The goal of the session is to bring together researchers working in macroeconomics, broadly defined. The session will focus on both short-run macroeconomic fluctuations, as well as open questions in economic growth. We welcome submissions that are quantitative, theoretical or empirical in nature. We hope that the diverse research topics within macroeconomics covered in the session will foster engaging and productive discussion.

This workshop will be dedicated to advances in experimental economics combining laboratory and field-experimental methodologies with theoretical and psychological insights on decision-making, strategic interaction and policy. We would invite papers in lab experiments, field experiments and their combination that test theory, demonstrate the importance of psychological phenomena, and explore social and policy issues. In addition to senior faculty members, invited presenters will include junior faculty as well as graduate students.

This session will bring together researchers working on issues at the intersection of psychology and economics. The segment will focus on evidence of and explanations for non-standard choice patterns, as well as the positive and normative implications of those patterns in a wide range of economic decision-making contexts. The presentations will build upon insights from other disciplines, including psychology and sociology. Theoretical, empirical, and experimental studies will be included.

This session aims to provide a forum for scholars interested in analyzing the employment experiences of vulnerable workers. For instance, workers with disabilities, older workers, and undocumented immigrant workers are individuals whose participation in labor markets has traditionally been limited by a variety of barriers, ranging from lack of accommodation to explicit discrimination or a lack of a legal employment status. A first important question within the debate on inequality concerns whether these individuals tend to display low levels of employment and/or be paid lower wages because of these barriers. A second important question is whether some of these gaps can be closed by appropriate technological investments (such as allowing work from home and purchasing specific equipment) or policy exceptions (such as lifting mandated minimum wages). The understanding of these dynamic trade-offs from either an efficiency or equity point of view is to date limited. The goal of this session is then to bring together a diverse group of young and established scholars who are engaged in frontier research in this area, from both a micro and a macro perspective. We welcome contributions from different fields, such as labor economics, health economics, public economics, industrial organization, and macroeconomics, as well as methodological perspectives that specifically address, but are not necessarily limited to, the following key questions:

a) What are the trend and cycle characteristics of the participation and employment rates of vulnerable workers? How have they changed over time?

b) How much does health matter for their labor market achievement compared to other dimensions of human capital?

c) What are the key challenges faced by vulnerable workers in securing and retaining employment? Are any labor market imperfections especially responsible for discouraging these workers from becoming or remaining employed? What is the specific role of firm monopsony power, especially towards undocumented workers? Can the regularization of the status of undocumented immigrants help mitigate these issues?

d) How important is discrimination and what forms does it take?

e) How effective are existing policies and laws in supporting vulnerable workers? Are policies like employment-sponsored health insurance encouraging or discouraging the participation of vulnerable individuals in labor markets? How could social security be reformed to provide appropriate work incentives for individuals who are able to work and yet protect individuals who are unable to work?

f) What is the role of innovative workplace practices, such flexible part-time and remote work, and technology more generally in supporting the labor market participation and employment of vulnerable workers?

There has been a recent surge of work in housing and urban economics, with people often scattered across otherwise disjoint fields such as public finance, labor, trade, development and macro, and using different methodologies. This workshop aims to bring together researchers that share an interest in these topics in one room. We welcome both theoretical and empirical research on housing and urban broadly speaking.

The session will cover recent work on the causes and effects of changes in volatility and uncertainty in the aggregate economy, which is incredibly topical given the COVID, Monetary and Ukraine volatility and now Middle East situation. Indeed, the most cited economics paper in the last 5-years is on measuring uncertainty and its impact on the US economy. This session will focus on measuring changes in uncertainty, evaluating its impact on the US and global economy, and discussing policy responses. The mix of academics and policy makers - with co-funding from the San Francisco Fed - across multiple institutions reflects this broad interest. The session will aim to include about 20 recent papers on these topics, with as in prior years a mix of theoretical and empirical papers, junior and senior presenters, and gender and demographic mix.

This session invites pioneering research in asset pricing, with a special focus on macrofinance, computational techniques, machine learning applications, and the emerging field of sustainable finance. We are particularly interested in studies that push the boundaries of traditional models or incorporate new methodologies. The key topics of Interest include:

1) Asset Pricing Models: Development and application in diverse market scenarios.

2) Investor Behavior: Heterogeneity, learning patterns, and ambiguity in decision-making.

3) Methodological Innovation: New approaches in financial model analysis, especially those employing novel computational and numerical methods.

4) Sustainable Finance: Impact of climate change and policy responses on asset markets, including aspects like disaster risks and credit risk modeling for assets at risk of becoming stranded.

This session discusses the latest advances in theoretical and empirical issues related to financial regulation, defined broadly. Topics will include, but will not be limited to, connections of regulation for intermediaries, households and policymakers in the US and outside the US.