BPEA Public Registration
Special Edition BPEA 2020:
COVID-19 and the Economy
Thursday, June 25, 2020, 10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Where: https://www.brookings.edu/events/webinar-special-edition-bpea-2020-covid-19-and-the-economy/
Download the agenda here.
Thursday, June 25, 2020
10:00 AM Session One: Labor Markets and Consumer Spending
- “The U.S. Labor Market During the Beginning of the Pandemic Recession”
Authors: Tomaz Cajner, Federal Reserve Board; Leland D. Crane, Federal Reserve Board; Ryan A. Decker, Federal Reserve Board; John Grigsby, University of Chicago; Adrian Hamins-Puertolas, Federal Reserve Board; Erik Hurst, University of Chicago; Christopher Kurz, Federal Reserve Board; and Ahu Yildirmaz, Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
- "Initial Impacts of the Pandemic on Consumer Behavior: Evidence from Linked Income, Spending, and Savings Data"
Authors: Natalie Bachas, Princeton University; Peter Ganong, University of Chicago; Pascal Noel, University of Chicago; Joseph Vavra, University of Chicago; Arlene Wong, Princeton University; Diana Farrell, JPMorgan Chase Institute; Fiona Greig, JPMorgan Chase Institute
Discussant: Jonathan A. Parker, MIT
11:05 AM Session Two: Safety Net Programs and Poverty
- “Income and Poverty in the COVID-19 Pandemic”
Authors: Jeehoon Han, University of Chicago; Bruce D. Meyer, University of Chicago; and James X. Sullivan, University of Notre Dame
- “The Social Safety Net in the Wake of COVID-19” (tentative title)
Authors: Marianne Bitler, University of California, Davis; Hilary Hoynes, University of California, Berkeley; and Diane Schanzenbach, Northwestern University
Discussant: Abigail Wozniak, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
12:10 PM Break
12:15 PM Session Three: Emerging Markets and Developing Economies
- “The Effects of the Coronavirus Pandemic in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies: An Optimistic Preliminary Account”
Authors: Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Yale University; and Tristan Reed, World Bank
Discussants: Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, University of Maryland; Michael Kremer, Harvard University
1:10 PM Lunch break
1:50 PM Session Four: Labor Markets and the Economics of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions
- “Early impacts of COVID on the labor market” (tentative title)
Authors: Alexander W. Bartik, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago; Feng Lin, University of Chicago; Jesse Rothstein, University of California, Berkeley; and Matthew Unrath, University of California, Berkeley
- “Tracking Public and Private Responses to the COVID-19 Epidemic: Evidence from State and Local Government Actions” (tentative title)
Authors: Sumedha Gupta, Indiana University; Thuy D. Nguyen, Indiana University; Shyam Raman, Indiana University; Byungkyu Lee, Indiana University; Felipe Lozano Rojas, Indiana University; Ana Bento, Indiana University; Kosali I. Simon, Indiana University; and Coady Wing, Indiana University
Discussants: Caroline Buckee, Harvard University, Victor Chernozhukov, MIT
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PM Session Five: Macroeconomics and Epidemiology
- “COVID-19 Is Also a Reallocation Shock”
Authors: Jose Maria Barrero, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico; Nick Bloom, Stanford University; and Steven J. Davis, University of Chicago
Discussant: Katharine G. Abraham, University of Maryland
- “Reopening, NPIs, and Economic Activity”
Authors: David Baqaee, University of California, Los Angeles; Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University; Michael J. Mina, Harvard University; and James H. Stock, Harvard University
Discussant: Daron Acemoglu, MIT
4:40 PM Break
4:45 PM Session Six: Fed Programs
- "Corporate Debt Overhang and Credit Policy"
Authors: Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University; and Arvind Krishnamurthy, Stanford University
Discussant: Ben S. Bernanke, Brookings Institution
5:30 PM Conference ends
If you have any questions or concerns about the Summer 2020 conference, please contact Stephanie Holzbauer (SHolzbauer@brookings.edu) or Anna Dawson (adawson@brookings.edu). Thank you!
