Summer Institute 2018

DATE July 9-27, 2018

Supported by the National Science Foundation grant #1559013, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant #20166036 , and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation grant #20180134

Week 1

July 9-14, 2018
SI 2018 Corporate Finance
July 9-10, 2018
Organizer(s): Antoinette Schoar and Amir Sufi
SI 2018 International Trade & Investment
July 9-12, 2018
Organizer(s): David Atkin and Jonathan Vogel
SI 2018 Monetary Economics
July 9-13, 2018
Organizer(s): Anil K Kashyap and Joseph S. Vavra
SI 2018 Impulse and Propagation Mechanisms
July 9-13, 2018
Organizer(s): Lawrence Christiano and Martin S. Eichenbaum
SI 2018 Risks of Financial Institutions
July 10, 2018
Organizer(s): Mark Carey and René M. Stulz
Summer Institute 2018 Feldstein Lecture
July 10, 2018
Organizer(s):
SI 2018 Forecasting & Empirical Methods
July 10-13, 2018
Organizer(s): Allan Timmermann and Jonathan H. Wright
SI 2018 Global Financial Crisis @ 10
July 11, 2018
Organizer(s): Markus K. Brunnermeier, Kristin Forbes, Victoria Ivashina, and Anil K Kashyap
SI 2018 IFM Data Sources Project
July 12, 2018
Organizer(s): Galina Hale and Michael W. Klein
SI 2018 International Trade & Macroeconomics
July 12, 2018
Organizer(s): Fabio Ghironi and Andrei A. Levchenko
SI 2018 Dynamic Equilibrium Models
July 12-13, 2018
Organizer(s): S. Borağan Aruoba, Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, and Frank Schorfheide
SI 2018 International Finance & Macroeconomics
July 12-13, 2018
Organizer(s): Manuel Amador and Andrei A. Levchenko
SI 2018 Asset Pricing
July 12-13, 2018
Organizer(s): Urban Jermann and Jessica Wachter
SI 2018 Behavioral Macro
July 13, 2018
Organizer(s): Andrew Caplin and Michael Woodford
SI 2018 Economic Growth
July 13, 2018
Organizer(s): Ufuk Akcigit, Francisco J. Buera, and David Lagakos
Economic Fluctuations and Growth Program Meeting, Summer 2018
July 14, 2018
Organizer(s): Virgiliu Midrigan and Hélène Rey
Big Data and High-Performance Computing for Financial Economics, Summer 2018
July 14, 2018
Organizer(s): Toni Whited and Mao Ye

Week 2

July 16-21, 2018
SI 2018 Entrepreneurship
July 16, 2018
Organizer(s): Josh Lerner and David T. Robinson
SI 2018 Macroeconomics Within and Across Borders
July 16-17, 2018
Organizer(s): Mark A. Aguiar, Patrick J. Kehoe, and Mark L.J. Wright
SI 2018 Research on Income and Wealth
July 16-17, 2018
Organizer(s): Katharine G. Abraham, Susanto Basu, Nicholas Bloom, Carol A. Corrado, and Charles R. Hulten
SI 2018 Political Economy
July 16-17, 2018
Organizer(s): Alberto F. Alesina
SI 2018 Capital Markets and the Economy
July 16-18, 2018
Organizer(s): Janice C. Eberly, Deborah J. Lucas, and Amir Yaron
SI 2018 Micro Data and Macro Models
July 16-19, 2018
Organizer(s): Erik Hurst, Greg Kaplan, and Giovanni L. Violante
SI 2018 Macro Perspectives
July 16-20, 2018
Organizer(s): Philipp Kircher, Guido Menzio, and Giuseppe Moscarini
SI 2018 Macroeconomics and Productivity
July 17, 2018
Organizer(s): Susanto Basu, Nicholas Bloom, and Chad Syverson
SI 2018 Innovation
July 17-18, 2018
Organizer(s): Benjamin Jones, Scott Stern, and Heidi L. Williams
SI 2018 Income Distribution and Macroeconomics
July 17-19, 2018
Organizer(s): Roland Bénabou, Oded Galor, and Fabrizio Zilibotti
SI 2018 Productivity, Development, and Entrepreneurship
July 18, 2018
Organizer(s): Nicholas Bloom, Chang-Tai Hsieh, and Christopher Woodruff
CRIW Pre-Conference: Big Data for 21st Century Economic Statistics, Summer 2018
July 18, 2018
Organizer(s): Katharine G. Abraham, Ron S. Jarmin, Brian Moyer, and Matthew D. Shapiro
SI 2018 Macro Public Finance
July 19, 2018
Organizer(s): Dirk Krueger, Aleh Tsyvinski, Florian Scheuer, and Stefanie Stantcheva
SI 2018 Industrial Organization
July 19-20, 2018
Organizer(s): Mar Reguant and Carl Shapiro
SI 2018 IT and Digitization
July 19-20, 2018
Organizer(s): Erik Brynjolfsson, Shane Greenstein, Susan Athey, and Hal R. Varian
Advancing the Science of Science Funding Workshop, Summer 2018
July 19-20, 2018
Organizer(s): Paula Stephan and Reinhilde Veugelers
SI 2018 Household Finance
July 20-21, 2018
Organizer(s): Brigitte C. Madrian and Stephen P. Zeldes

Week 3

July 22-28, 2018
SI 2018 Methods Lectures - Weak Instruments and What to do About Them
July 22, 2018
Organizer(s): Isaiah Andrews and James H. Stock
SI 2018 Development Economics
July 22-24, 2018
Organizer(s): David Atkin, Pascaline Dupas, Andrew Foster, Sebastian Galiani, Costas Meghir, and Duncan Thomas
SI 21018 Health Economics, Summer 2018
July 23, 2018
Organizer(s): Michael Grossman, Theodore J. Joyce, and Christopher S. Carpenter
SI 2018 Economics of National Security
July 23, 2018
Organizer(s): Martin S. Feldstein and Eli Berman
SI 2018 Environmental & Energy Economics
July 23-24, 2018
Organizer(s): Wolfram Schlenker and James H. Stock
SI 2018 Development of the American Economy
July 23-26, 2018
Organizer(s): Walker Hanlon, Petra Moser, and Matthew S. Jaremski
SI 2018 Aging
July 23-27, 2018
Organizer(s): David M. Cutler and Jonathan S. Skinner
SI 2018 Labor Studies
July 23-27, 2018
Organizer(s): David Autor and Alexandre Mas
SI 2018 Public Economics
July 24, 2018
Organizer(s): Amy Finkelstein, Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, and Owen M. Zidar
SI 2018 Education
July 25, 2018
Organizer(s): Caroline M. Hoxby
SI 2018 Social Security
July 25, 2018
Organizer(s): Jeffrey B. Liebman
SI 2018 Law and Economics
July 25-26, 2018
Organizer(s): Christine Jolls
SI 2018 Real Estate
July 25-26, 2018
Organizer(s): Fernando V. Ferreira and Tomasz Piskorski
SI 2018 Personnel Economics
July 25-26, 2018
Organizer(s): Edward P. Lazear and Kathryn L. Shaw
SI 2018 Children
July 26-27, 2018
Organizer(s): Janet Currie and Anna Aizer
SI 2018 Urban Economics
July 26-27, 2018
Organizer(s): Edward L. Glaeser
SI 2018 Health Care
July 26-27, 2018
Organizer(s): Jonathan Gruber
SI 2018 Crime
July 26-27, 2018
Organizer(s): Justin McCrary, Jens Ludwig, and Philip J. Cook
Measurement and Tracking of Subjective Well-Being for Aging Research, Summer 2018
July 28, 2018
Organizer(s): Daniel J. Benjamin, Kristen B. Cooper, Ori Heffetz, Stefan Schneider, and Arthur A. Stone

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