Oslo Macro Conference 2024
PROGRAM
Thursday 22 August
8.30 Registration and coffee
Part I
9.00 Silvana Tenreyro (London School of Economics): "Commodity Price Shocks and Monetary Policy"
10.00 Coffee
10.15 Ludwig Straub (Harvard University): "Disaggregated Economic Accounts"
11.15 Panel on monetary policy: Olav Chen (Storebrand), Kjetil Storesletten (University of Minnesota), Tenreyro, and Straub. Chair: Gisle Natvik (BI)
12.00 Lunch
Part II: Revolver 1
13.00 Karin Kinnerud (BI Norwegian Business School): “The Inflation Tilt Effect”
13.20 Ruslana Datsenko (University of Oslo): “Monetary Policy Transmission and Firm-Level Volatility: Uncertainty Versus Risks”
13.40 Marek Jasinski (Statistics Norway): “Estimating the Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution using Dividend Tax News Shocks”
14.00 Coffee
Part III
14.15 Niklas Engbom (NYU Stern): "Economic Development According to Chandler"
15.15 Coffee
15.30 Andrej Mijakovic (European University Institute): “The Macroeconomic Implications of Coholding”
16.10 Nicolas Werquin (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago): “Consumption, Wealth, and Income Inequality: A Tale of Tails”
16.50 Adjourn
Friday 23 August
8.30 Coffee and pastries
Part IV
9.00 Yusuf Mercan (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City): “Labor Market Shocks and Monetary Policy”
9.40 Coffee
10.10 Natalie Rickard (London Business School): “Non-essential Business Cycles”
10.50 Hugo Reichardt (London School of Economics): “Scale-Biased Technical Change and Inequality”
11.30 Coffee
Part V: Revolver 2
11.40 Hannah Seidl (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): “The House Price Channel of Quantitative Easing”
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Tim Dominik Maurer (Norwegian School of Economics): “Population Aging, Public Finances, and Alternatives for Retirement Reform”
13.20 Ragnar Juelsrud (Norges Bank): “What Do 12 Billion Card Transactions Say About House Prices and Consumption?”
13.40 Coffee
Part VI
13.50 Ralph Luetticke (University of Tübingen): "HANK's Response to Aggregate Uncertainty in an Estimated Business Cycle Model"
14.50 Coffee
15.10 Anne Hannusch (University of Mannheim): “Cohabitation, Child Development, and College Costs”
15.50 Kieran Larkin (IIES): “The Rise of Women and Decline of Education”
16.30 Adjourn
About the conference
This conference promotes advances in macroeconomic research and aims to connect it to economic policy.
The organizing committee is Håkon Tretvoll (Statistics Norway), Karl Harmenberg (University of Oslo), Gisle Natvik (BI Norwegian Business School), Kjetil Storesletten (University of Oslo), Fredrik Wulfsberg (Oslo Business School), and Knut Are Aastveit (Norges Bank).
This event has received external funding from Finansmarkedsfondet and Centre for Monetary Economics (CME) to whom we are highly grateful.
Contact us at oslomacrogroup@gmail.com
Past conferences: OMC 2019, OMC 2020, OMC 2021, OMC 2022, OMC 2023