Program (pdf)

MONDAY, 24 AUGUST 

8.30 Registration and coffee 

9.00 Michele Andreolli (Boston College): Discretionary Inflation and Optimal Monetary Policy

9.40 Chris Cotton (Boston Fed): Price Stickiness in a Digital Age

10.20 Coffee break 

10.50 Laura Kuitunen (EUI and Norges Bank): The International Transmission of the Fed Information Effects: Evidence from Europe

11.30 Lapo Bini (UC San Diego): The Macroeconomic Effects of Global Supply Chain Shocks

12.15 Lunch 

13.15 Laura Pilossoph (Duke University): The Search Costs of Inflation in the Labor Market

14.15 Break 

14.30 Leo Kaas (EUI): Household Search and the Equilibrium Gender Pay Gap

15.10 Yusuf Mercan (Kansas City Fed): The Job Ladder, Unemployment Risk, and Incomplete Markets

15.50 Maria Olsson (BI Norwegian Business School): Wage Rigidity and the Equilibrium Relationship between Wages and Hours Worked

16.30 Adjourn

17.00 Dinner (by invitation)

TUESDAY, 25 AUGUST

8.30 Coffee and pastries

9.00 Gregor Jarosh (Duke University): Labor Market Antitrust

10.00 Paula Patzelt (LSE): No Single Market for Electricity: Aggregate Productivity Costs of Price Dispersion in Europe

10.40 Coffee break

11.10 Eirik Brandsaas (Fed Board): Waiting for Wealth: Inheritances and Household Savings

11.50 Andrej Mijakovic (University of Mannheim): Income Inequality and the Rise of Risky Capital

12.30 Lunch

13.30 Saki Bigio (UCLA): Payment Chain Crises

14.10 Espen Henriksen (BI Norwegian Business School): Financial Markets can explain Exchange Rates

14.50 Adjourn