Salento Macro Meetings 2026
Salento Macro Meetings 2026
Palazzo Rollo - Lecce, Italy
Palazzo Rollo - Lecce, Italy
July 7 - 8
July 7 - 8
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Tuesday July 7th
10:00
Welcome
Gaetano Gaballo (HEC Paris), Francesco Pappadà (Ca’ Foscari, PSE)
10:15-11:00
Invited talk
TBA
Veronica Guerrieri (University of Chicago Booth)
11:00-11:15
Coffee break
11:15-12:00
Product Switching and Young Firm Dynamics
Karam Jo, Seula Kim (Pennsylvania State University)
Discussant: Gaetano Gaballo (HEC Paris)
12:00-12:45
Accounting for Credibility: Monetary-Fiscal Interactions and the Credibility of Central Bank Mandates
Luigi Bocola, Gaston Chaumont (University Of Rochester), Alessandro Dovis, Rishabh Kirpalani
Discussant: Cristina Manea (Bank for International Settlements)
12:45-14:00
Lunch
14:00-14:45
Invited talk
Risk Sharing, International Comovement, and the Goldilocks Trade Elasticity
Ryan Chahrour (Cornell University)
14:45-15:30
Who Talks? Disclosure and Price Inference in Production Networks
Vincenzo Cuciniello, Luigi Paciello (EIEF)
Discussant: Jenny Chan (Bank of England)
15:30-15:45
Coffee break
15:45-16:30
The Future in Today’s Prices: Evidence from a Survey of US Firms
Philippe Andrade, Alexander Dietrich, John Leer, Jenny Tang, Raphael S. Schoenle (Brandeis University), Egon Zakrajsek
Discussant: Sarah Mouabbi (Banque de France)
18:30
Guided tour of Lecce
20:00
Social dinner
Wednesday July 8th
09:45-10:30
Invited talk
TBA
Guido Lorenzoni (University of Chicago Booth)
10:30-11:15
Industrial Policies, Global Imbalances and Technological Hegemony
Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi, Andrea Ferrero, Luca Fornaro, Martin Wolf (University of St Gallen)
Discussant: Francesco Pappadà (Ca’ Foscari, PSE)
11:15-11:30
Coffee break
11:30-12:15
Sovereign Risk with Endogenous Debt Limits
Fernando Arce, Alessandro Villa (Chicago FED, University Of Oxford)
Discussant: Adrien Couturier (London School of Economics)
12:15-13:00
The Perils of Bilateral Sovereign Debt
Francisco Roldan (International Monetary Fund), Cesar Sosa-Padilla
Discussant: Paolo Varraso (Tor Vergata University of Rome)
13:00-14:00
Lunch
15:30
Bus departure to Porto Selvaggio (Ionian Sea)
Organizers:
Gaetano Gaballo (HEC Paris)
Francesco Pappadà (Ca' Foscari, PSE)
The organizers kindly acknowledge the financial support from the SCOR Macroeconomic Risk Chair at PSE and the European Research Council (ERC). Gaetano Gaballo acknowledges funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No 101088411).
Call for papers
The ninth edition of the Salento Macro Meetings will take place in Lecce, Italy on the 7th and 8th of July 2026. 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 Macroeconomics
Monetary policy in Closed or Open Economy
Sovereign Debt and Macroeconomic Risks
Submissions from members of under-represented groups in the profession are encouraged.
Invited speakers of this edition are:
Ryan Chahrour (Cornell University)
Veronica Guerrieri (University of Chicago Booth)
Guido Lorenzoni (University of Chicago Booth)
The organisers kindly acknowledge financial support from the SCOR Macroeconomic Risk Chair at PSE and the European Research Council (ERC). Limited funding for speakers and discussants is available upon request, with priority given to more junior participants.
The deadline for submission is Sunday 12 April 2026.
Organisers:
Gaetano Gaballo (HEC Paris, CEPR)
Francesco Pappadà (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, PSE)
Submission link: https://cepr.org/events/salento-macro-meetings-2026
Location
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.
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