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The Annual Conference of the Search and Matching Network - SaM 2025

Vilnius University and Lietuvos Bankas

 Vilnius, Lithuania – May 8-10, 2025

Website: https://sam2025.econ.lt/

Venue address: Vilnius University, Universiteto g. 3, 01131 Vilnius 

SaM Committee: Carlos Carrillo-Tudela (chair, University of Essex),  Ana Figuereido (VU Amsterdam), Manolis Galenianos (Royal Holloway, University of London), Marion Gousse (CREST), Leo Kaas (Goethe University Frankfurt), Andreas Mueller (University of Zurich),  Daphné Skandalis (University of Copenhagen), Antonella Trigari (Bocconi University), and Ludo Visschers (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Local Organizers: Linas Tarasonis (Lietuvos Bankas, Vilnius University), Jose Garcia-Louzao (Lietuvos Bankas, Vilnius University)

Conference Program

Day 1 - Thursday, May 8

12:30-13:30 Vilnius University Tour (meeting point near main entrance from Universiteto street) 

13:30-14:00 Registration and Welcome Coffee

14:00-14:30 Opening Remarks

14:30-16:00 Plenary Session 1 (moderator Manolis Galenianos, Royal Holloway, University of London)

Families’ Career Investments and Firms’ Promotion Decisions

Frederik Almar (Aarhus University), Benjamin Friedrich (Northwestern University), Ana Reynoso (University of Michigan), Bastian Schulz (Aarhus University), and Rune Vejlin (Aarhus University).

The Concentration Channel of the Minimum Wage

Salvatore Lo Bello (Bank of Italy) and Lorenzo Pesaresi (University of Zurich) 

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-18:00 Plenary Session 2 (moderator Ludo Visschers, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) 

Firm Pay and Consumption Inequality

Sigurd Galaasen (Norges Bank), Andreas Kostøl (BI Norwegian Business School), and Micheal Simmons (Umeå University) 

Shopping frictions with household heterogeneity: theory and empirics 

Krzysztof Pytka (University of Mannheim)

18:00 – Welcome Reception

Day 2 - Friday, May 9

8:30-9:00 Welcome Coffee

9:00-10:30 Plenary Session 3 (moderator Leo Kaas, Goethe University Frankfurt)

Imperfect Information and Slow Recoveries in the Labor Market

Anushka Mitra (Federal Reserve Board)

Labor Market Dynamics and Growth

Jake Bradley (University of Nottingham) and Axel Gottfries (University of Edinburgh)

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-13:00 Speed Talks and Poster Session 1 (moderator Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, University of Essex)

Employer-to-employer Mobility and Wages in Europe and the United States

Daniel Borowczyk-Martins (Copenhagen Business School)

How Much Work Experience Do You Need to Get to Your First Job? 

Shisham Adhikari (University of California, Davis), Athanasios Geromichalos (University of California, Davis), Ates Gursoy (University of California, Davis), and Ioannis Kospentaris (Athens University of Economics and Business)

Occupation Growth and Worker Flows in Dynamic Labor Market Equilibrium

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela (University of Essex), Frank Leenders (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Tommaso Santini (IWH Halle), and Ludo Visschers (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Career Paths with a Two-Body Problem: Occupational Specialisation and Geographic Mobility

Valeria Rueda (University of Nottingham), and Guillaume Wilemme (University of Leicester) 

Skill-Biased Reallocation

Fergal Hanks (University of Cambridge)

The Labor Demand and Labor Supply Channels of Monetary Policy

Sebastian Graves (University of Cambridge), Christopher Huckfeldt (Federal Reserve Board), and Eric T. Swanson (University of California, Irvine)

Fiscal policy and sectoral reallocation according to HANK-SAM-IO

Alexey Gorn (University of Liverpool), Nicolò Rizzotti (University of Chicago), and Antonella Trigari (Bocconi University)

13:00-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-14:45 Plenary session 4 (moderator Andreas Mueller, University of Zurich)

Technological Change in Quantities

Jan Eeckhout (University of Pompeu Fabra), Philipp Kircher (Cornell University), and Cristina Lafuente (University of Bath)

15:00-16:00 Keynote session 1 (moderator Andreas Mueller, University of Zurich)

Assortative Matching and Wages: The Role of Selection

Katarína Borovičková (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond) and Robert Shimer (University of Chicago)

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-18:00 Plenary session 5 (moderator Leo Kaas, Goethe University Frankfurt)

Possible collusion and equilibrium prices

Tom-Reiel Heggedal (BI Norwegian Business School), Magnus Våge Knutsen (BI Norwegian Business School), and Espen Moen (BI Norwegian Business School), 

Spillover Effects of Employment Protection

Pierre Cahuc (Sciences Po), Pauline Carry (CREST), Franck Malherbet (ENSAE, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), and Pedro S. Martins (Nova School of Business and Economics)

19:30 Conference dinner

Day 3 - Saturday, May 10

8:30-9:00 Welcome Coffee

9:00-10:30 Plenary Session 6 (moderator Antonella Trigari, Bocconi University)

The Allocative Channel of Cyclical UI

Matthew McKernan (Bank of England)

The Colocation Friction: Dual-Earner Job Search and Labor Market Outcomes

Hanno Foerster (Boston College) and Robert Ulbricht (Boston College) 

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-13:00 Speed Talks and Poster Session 2 (moderator Ludo Visschers, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Efficient Firm Entry in the Labour Market

Guillaume Nevo (Uppsala University)

Vacancies and Recruiting Through Different Channels

Jesper Bagger (University of Edinburgh) and Manolis Galenianos (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Wage Information and Applicant Selection 

Maria Balgova (Bank of England), Lukas Hensel (Peking University), Tsegay G. Teklesselassie (Northeastern University), and Marc Witte (VU Amsterdam)

Life-cycle Worker Flows and Cross-country Differences in Aggregate Employment

Jonathan Créchet (University of Ottawa), Etienne Lalé (York University), and Linas Tarasonis (Lietuvos Bankas, Vilnius University)

Joint Labor Search and the Taxation of Couples

Piotr Denderski (University of Leicester), Leo Kaas (Goethe University Frankfurt), Bastian Schulz (Aarhus University), and Nawid Siassi (TU Wien)

Wealth Sorting and Cyclical Employment Risk

Amalia Repele (Bocconi University)

Wealth Inequality and Labor Mobility: The Job Trap

Elena Pellegrini (Boston College)

13:00-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-14:45 Plenary Session 7 (moderator Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, University of Essex)

The Search Costs of Inflation

Laura Pilossoph (Duke University), Jane M. Ryngaert (University of Notre Dame), and Jesse  Wedewer (Duke University), 

15:00-16:00 Keynote Session 2 (moderator Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, University of Essex)

Job Search and the Gender Wage Gap

Jason Faberman (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago), Andreas Mueller (University of Zurich), and Ayşegül Şahin (Princeton University)

16:00-16:15 Closing Remarks

17:00 Vilnius City Tour