This workshop is public. It has an emphasis on understanding how the economics of search and matching models can be useful for understanding economic and virological aspects of the Coronavirus epidemic.
The format of each workshop will be as follows:
VMACS Junior Program
To register for the workshop click here: Registration link
If you have a paper that you think would be of interest to this workshop, please feel free to send me an email. If the workshop is successful I will add additional sessions.
The format of each workshop will be as follows:
- Each talk will be for 30 minutes
- 15 minutes discussion after each talk.
- The webinars will be recorded
VMACS Junior Program
To register for the workshop click here: Registration link
If you have a paper that you think would be of interest to this workshop, please feel free to send me an email. If the workshop is successful I will add additional sessions.
Session 1 - May 14 - 1000 - 1215 CST - YouTube
- Philipp Kircher - An Economic Model of the Covid-19 Epidemic: The Importance of Testing and Age-specific Policies
- with Luiz Brotherhood, Cezar Santos, Michele Tertilt
- Robert Shimer - Internal and External Effects of Social Distancing in a Pandemic
- with Maryam Farboodi, Gregor Jarosch
- Lones Smith - The Behavioral SIR Model, with Applications to the Swine Flu and COVID-19 Epidemics
- with Jussi Keppo, Marianna Kudlyak, Elena Quercioli, Andrea Wilson
Session 2 - May 21 - 1000 - 1215 CST - YouTube
- Peter Rupert - Labor Markets During Pandemics
- with Marek Kapicka
- Victoria Gregory - Pandemic Recession: L or V-Shaped?
- with Guido Menzio, David Wiczer
- Ivan Werning - A Multi-Risk SIR Model with Optimally Targeted Lockdown
- with Daron Acemoglu, Victor Chernozhukov, Michael D. Whinston
Session 3 - May 28- 1000 - 1215 CST - (Accidentally lost the recording of this, apologies!)
- Flavio Toxvaerd - Social Distancing with Asymptomatic Infection: Beliefs, Fatalism and Testing
- Also will be discussing his previous paper: Equilibrium Social Distancing
- Michele Tertilt - This Time It’s Different: The Role of Women’s Employment in the Great Lockdown
- with Titan Alon, Matthias Doepke, Jane Olmstead-Rumsey (Previous empirical paper: here)
- Christian Hellwig - The Hammer and the Dance: Equilibrium and Optimal Policy during a Pandemic Crisis - Slides
- with the Macro group at Toulouse School of Economics
Session 4 - June 4 - 1000 - 1215 CST - YouTube: (Mercan/Wright) , (Lippi)
- Yusuf Mercan - Labor Market Policies During an Epidemic
- with Fatih Karahan, Serdar Birinci, Yusuf Mercan, Kurt See
- Randall Wright - Toxic Assets and Market Freezes
- with Chao Gu, Guido Menzio, Yu Zhu
- Francesco Lippi - A Simple Planning Problem for COVID-19 Lockdown and Smart Tracing
- with Fernando Alvarez, Davide Argente,
Session 5 - June 11 - 1000 - 1215 CST - YouTube
- Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde - Estimating and Simulating a SIRD Model of COVID-19 for Many Countries, States, and Cities
- with Chad Jones (see their dashboard here: link)
- Shouyong Shi - Knowledge, Germs and Output
- Espen Moen - Modelling Contacts and Transitions in the SIR Epidemics Model
- with Pietro Garibaldi, Christopher Pissarides