MONDAY 29 MAY
Banco de España, Calle Alcalá 48, Madrid
Sala Gemelo I
| 08:00 - 08:30 |
Registration
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SESSION 1 - BUSINESS CYCLE FLUCTUATIONS
| 08:45 - 09:45 |
What's news in international business cycles
Daniele Siena (Banque de France)
Discussant: Burcin Kisacikoglu (Bilkent University)
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| 09:45 - 10:45 |
Macroeconomic fluctuations with HANK & SAM: an analytical approach
Vincent Sterk (University College London)
Morten Ravn (University College London)
Discussant: Federica Romei (Stockholm School of Economics) |
| 10:45 - 11:15 |
Coffee break |
SESSION 2 - INFORMATION FRICTIONS
| 11:15 - 12:15 |
Information-driven business cycles
Robert Ulbricht (Toulouse School of Economics)
Ryan Chahrour (Boston College)
Discussant: Alexandre Kohlhas (IIES)
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SESSION 3 - FISCAL POLICY
| 13:45 - 14:45 |
The fiscal multiplier
Kurt Mitman (IIES)
Marcus Hagedorn (University of Oslo)
Iourii Manovskii (University of Pennsylvania)
Discussant: Christian Moser (Columbia University and EIEF)
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| 14:45 - 15:45 |
The heterogeneous effects of government spending: it's all about taxes
Axelle Ferriere (European University Institute)
Gaston Navarro (Federal Reserve Board)
Discussant: Maren Froemel (University of Cambridge)
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| 15:45 - 16:15 |
Coffee Break
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SESSION 4 - SOVEREIGN DEFAULT
| 16:15 - 17:15 |
External Imbalances, gross capital flows and sovereign debt crises
Sergio de Ferra (Stockholm University)
Discussant: Dmitry Matveev (University of Mannheim) |
| 17:15 - 18:15 |
Illiquidity in sovereign debt market
Juan Passadore (EIEF)
Yu Xu (MIT Sloan School of Management)
Discussant: Laura Sunder-Plassmann (University of Copenhagen)
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TUESDAY 30 MAY
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Getafe Campus
SESSION 5 - HUMAN CAPITAL
| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Skill accumulation in the market and at home
Jean Flemming (University of Oxford)
Discussant: Nawid Siassi (University of Konstanz)
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| 10:00 - 11:00 |
Evaluating policies for early childhood skills formation
Iacopo Morchio (University of Vienna)
Discussant: Christopher Rauh (University of Cambridge) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Coffee break |
SESSION 6 - LABOR
| 11:30 - 12:30 |
Unemployment risk and the distribution of assets
Alireza Sepahsalari (University of Bristol)
Jan Eeckhout (University College London)
Discussant: Isaac Baley (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
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| 12:30 - 13:30 |
On the distribution of wealth and labor force participation
Minchul Yum (University of Mannheim)
Discussant: Arnau Valladares-Esteban (University of Southampton)
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SESSION 7 - FIRMS AND PRODUCTIVITY
| 14:30 - 15:30 |
Misallocation and financial frictions: the role of long-term financing
Patrick Macnamara (University of Manchester)
Marios Karabarbounis (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
Discussant: Julian Neira (University of Exeter)
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| 15:30 - 16:30 |
Capital obsolescence and agricultural productivity
Elisa Keller (University of Exeter)
Julieta Caunedo (Cornell University)
Discussant: Basile Grassi (University of Oxford)
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| 16:30 - 17:00 |
Coffee Break
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SESSION 8 - INNOVATION
| 17:00 - 18:00 |
The ICT Revolution and Italy's Two Lost Decades
Fabiano Schivardi (Bocconi University)
Tom Schmitz (Bocconi University)
Discussant: Salvatore Lo Bello (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
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