Salento Macro Meetings 2024
Hotel Risorgimento - Lecce, Italy
Friday July 5th
09:30
Welcome
09:45-10:30
Invited talk
"Menu costs and Phillips curves" 20 years later
Francesco Lippi (Luiss University and EIEF)
10:30-11:15
The Causal Effects of Expected Depreciations
Martha Elena Delgado, Juan Herreno, Marc Hofstetter, Mathieu Pedemonte (Federal Reserve Bank Of Cleveland)
Discussant: Gaetano Gaballo (HEC Paris, CEPR)
11:15-11:30
Coffee break
11:30-12:15
Strike the Iron while it’s Hot: Optimal Monetary Policy with (S,s) Pricing
Peter Karadi, Anton Nakov, Galo Nuno, Ernesto Pasten, Dominik Thaler (European Central Bank)
Discussant: Pablo Kurlat (University of Southern California)
12:15-13:00
Committing to Grow: Employment Targets and Firm Dynamics
Harun Alp (Federal Reserve Board), Ufuk Akcigit, Andre Diegmann, Nicolas Serrano-Velarde
Discussant: Francesco Pappadà (Ca' Foscari Venice, PSE)
13:00-14:00
Lunch
14:00-14:45
Invited talk
Pareto Improving Fiscal and Monetary Policies: Samuelson in the New Keynesian Model
Mark Aguiar, Manuel Amador, Cristina Arellano (Minneapolis FED)
14:45-15:30
Investment-Goods Market Power and Capital Accumulation
Andrea Lanteri (Duke University), Fabio Bertolotti, Alessandro T. Villa
Discussant: Michaela Elfsbacka-Schmoller (European Central Bank)
15:30-15:45
Coffee break
15:45-16:30
Household Belief Formation in Uncertain Times
Luca Gemmi, Roxana Mihet (HEC Lausanne)
Discussant: Kieran Larkin (Stockholm University)
18:30-20:00
Guided tour of Lecce
20:00
Social dinner, Lecce
Saturday July 6th
09:30-10:15
Invited talk
The anatomy of a peg: lessons from China’s parallel currencies
Saleem Bahaj, Ricardo Reis (LSE)
10:15-11:00
Markups and Cost Pass-through Along the Supply Chain
Santiago E. Alvarez, Alberto Cavallo, Alexander MacKay, Paolo Mengano (Harvard University)
Discussant: Luigi Iovino (Bocconi University)
11:00-11:15
Coffee break
11:15-12:00
Invited talk
Regressive Trend Inflation
Evi Pappa (Universidad Carlos III), Sebastian Rast, Alejandro Vicondoa
12:00-12:45
Fiscal-Monetary Interactions in the United States
Paul Bouscasse (Sciences Po), Seungki Hong
Discussant: Edouard Challe (Paris School of Economics)
12:45-14:00
Lunch
15:30
Bus departure: from Piazzetta Caduti sul Lavoro to Porto Selvaggio (Ionian Sea)
Organizers:
Gaetano Gaballo (HEC Paris, CEPR)
Pablo Kurlat (University of Southern California)
Francesco Pappadà (Ca' Foscari Venice, PSE)
The organizers kindly acknowledge the financial support from the University of Southern California, the Chair Banque de France at Paris School of Economics, and CEPREMAP.
Call for papers
The seventh edition of the Salento Macro Meetings will take place in Lecce, Italy on the 5th and 6th of July 2024. The objective of this event is to bring distinguished researchers in Macroeconomics in the relaxed and fruitful atmosphere of Salento, the peninsula located in the southernmost region of Apulia, Italy.
We welcome submissions of theoretical or empirical papers addressing issues including:
Inflation and Expectations
Firm dynamics and the macroeconomy
Monetary policy in closed or open economy
Submissions from members of under-represented groups in the economics profession are encouraged.
Invited speakers of this edition are:
Cristina Arellano (Minneapolis Fed)
Francesco Lippi (LUISS University and CEPR)
Evi Pappa (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and CEPR)
Ricardo Reis (London School of Economics and CEPR)
The workshop organization will be able to cover accommodation expenses for speakers and discussants. The organisers kindly acknowledge financial support from the University of Southern California, the Chair Banque de France at PSE and Cepremap.
The deadline for submissions is Thursday April 4, 2024.
Submission link: https://cepr.org/events/salento-macro-meetings-2024
Location
Lecce is located at the heart of Salento, the peninsula at the southern end of the administrative region of Puglia, Italy. The region is well known for its natural landscapes, like the beaches on the Adriatic and Ionian Sea as well as for the rich Baroque architectural monuments. The closest airport is Brindisi, which is about 40km north of Lecce.
