Salento Macro Meetings 2019

Collegio Santa Chiara, Galatina (Lecce) 

Thursday August 29th

9:45-10:00      Welcome address


10:00-10:50   Accounting for Macro Finance Trends and Optimal Government Investment

Francois Gourio (FRB of Chicago)*

Discussant: Christoph Boehm (University of Texas at Austin)


10:50-11:40    Reserve Accumulation, Macroeconomic Stabilization and Sovereign Risk 

Javier Bianchi (FRB of Minneapolis) and Cesar Sosa-Padilla (University of Notre Dame)*

Discussant: Francesco Pappadà (Paris School of Economics and Banque de France)


11:40-12:00    Coffee break

 

12:00-12:50    Real Exchange Rates and Primary Commodity Prices 

Joao Ayres (Inter-American Development Bank), Constantino Hevia (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) and Juan Pablo Nicolini (FRB of Minneapolis)*

Discussant: Carlo Galli (University College London)

 

12:50-14:00    Lunch              

            

14:00-14:50    On the Distributional Effects of International Tariffs

Daniel Carroll (FRB of Cleveland) and Sewon Hur (FRB of Cleveland)*

Discussant: Axelle Ferriere (Paris School of Economics and CNRS)

                        

14:50-15:40    Debt Sustainability in a Low Interest Rate World

Neil R. Mehrotra (Brown University) and Dmitry Sergeyev (Bocconi University)*

Discussant: Isaac Baley (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

                                   

15:40-16:00    Coffee break

 

16:00-16:50    Optimal monetary policy according to HANK 

Sushant Acharya (FRB New York), Edouard Challe (Ecole Polytechnique)* and Keshav Dogra (FRB New York)


19:00-20:30    Guided tour of Lecce             

20:30               Dinner in Lecce                      

 

Friday August 30th

 

09:00-09:50    A General Equilibrium Theory of Capital Structure 

Douglas Gale (New York University) and Piero Gottardi (University of Essex)*

Discussant: Michael Kumhof (Bank of England)

                                   

09:50-10:40    Self-fulfilling Debt Crises with Long Stagnations    

Joao Ayres (Inter-American Development Bank), Gaston Navarro (FRB Board), Juan Pablo Nicolini (FRB of Minneapolis) and Pedro Teles (Banco de Portugal, Catolica Lisbon SBE)*

Discussant: Chryssi Giannitsarou (University of Cambridge)           

 

10:40-11:00    Coffee break               

 

11:00-11:50    A Theory of Participation in OTC and Centralized Markets  

Jerome Dugast (Université Paris-Dauphine), Semih Uslu (Johns Hopkins Carey Business School) and Pierre-Olivier Weill (UCLA)*

Discussant: Liyan Shi (EIEF)

                                   

11:50-13:00    Lunch                          

                        

13:00-13:50    Financial Frictions and the Wealth Distribution   

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde (University of Pennsylvania), Samuel Hurtado (Banco de Espana) and Galo Nuño (Banco de Espana)*

Discussant: Davide Melcangi (FRB of New York)

 

13:50-14:40    Mismatch Cycles

Isaac Baley (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Ana Figuereido Gomes (Erasmus University Rotterdam)* and Robert Ulbricht (Toulouse School of Economics)     

Discussant: Regis Barnichon (FRB of San Francisco)

                                   

14:40-15:00    Coffee break

 

15:00-15:50    Signalling Power and Equilibrium Markups 

Gaetano Gaballo (HEC Paris)* and Luigi Paciello (EIEF) // ERC project //

                                 

16:00               Beach session at Lido Mar y sol, Rivabella (Ionian Sea) 

            

Organizers:

Axelle Ferriere (Paris School of Economics and CNRS) 

Gaetano Gaballo (HEC Paris and CEPR) 

Luigi Paciello (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance) 

Francesco Pappadà (Paris School of Economics and Banque de France) 


The organizers kindly acknowledge the financial support from the chair Banque de France at Paris School of Economics and from the ERC Starting Grant 676846.

Location

Galatina 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 70km north of Galatina.