Montreal Workshop on Markets with Frictions

Friday 5 May 2017

 Speakers

• Maximiliano Dvorkin (St Louis Fed): “Trade, Skills and Unemployment: A Quantitative Analysis”

• Gueorgui Kambourov (Toronto): “Barriers to Entry and Regional Economic Growth in China” (joint with Loren Brandt and Kjetil Storesletten)

• Ben Lester (Philadelphia Fed): “Screening and Adverse Selection in a Frictional Market” (joint with Ali Shourideh, Venky Venkateswaran, and Ariel Zetlin-Jones)

• Stanislav Rabinovich (Amherst/UNC): “Dynamic Inefficiency in Decentralized Capital Markets” (joint with Andre Kurmann)

• Giorgio Topa (New York Fed): “Job Search Behavior Among the Employed and Non‐Employed” (joint with Jason Faberman, Andreas Mueller, Aysegul Sahin)

• Ronald Wolthoff (Toronto): “Meetings and Mechanisms” (joint with Xiaoming Cai and Pieter Gautier)

Accommodation

Delta Hotel by Marriott, Montreal

475 President-Kennedy Avenue Montreal Quebec H3A 1J7 Canada

tel: +1-514-286-1986