Program

The conference takes place in Professorboligen (map).

All hours in local time.  EST is –6 hours and PST is –9 hours.

Thursday 19 August

10.00 am Part I:  Labor 

Erik Öberg, Uppsala University: Labor-Market Hysteresis and Persistent Paradox-of-Thrift Recessions (onsite)

Richard Audoly, NHH: Job Ladder, Human Capital and the Cost of Job Loss (onsite)

11.30 am Luncheon

1.00 pm Part II: Consumption and Covid 

Karin Kinnerud, BI Norwegian Business School:  Mortgage Lending Standards: Implications for Consumption Dynamics (onsite)

Jonna Olsson, University of Edinburgh:  Integrated Epi-Econ Assessment I: Quantitative Theory (Zoom)

2.30 pm Part III: Interest Rates 

Saki Bigio, UCLA:  DeDebt-Maturity Management with Liquidity Costs (Zoom)

Vladimir Asriyan, CREi: Falling Interest Rates and Misallocation: Lessons from General Equilibrium (Zoom)

4.00 pm Part IV: Taxation and Consumption

Michele Andreolli, London Business School: Less is More: Consumer Spending and the Size of Economic Stimulus Payments (Zoom)

Elena Pastorino, Stanford University: Taxing the Rich (Zoom)

5.30 pm Adjourn

6.00 pm Conference dinner

Friday 20 August

8.30 am Part V: Fiscal policy and Redistribution

Ludwig Straub, Harvard University: A Goldilocks Theory of Fiscal Policy (Zoom)

Axelle Ferriere, Paris School of Economics: Redistribution in Growing Economies (Zoom)

10.30 am Part VI:  Debt and Finance 

Christoph Trebesch, Kiel University: Coping with Disasters: Two Centuries of International Official Lending (Zoom)

Rustam Jamilov, London Business School: A Macroeconomic Model with Heterogeneous Banks (Zoom)

12.30 pm Luncheon

1.30 pm Part VII: Distributions 

Kyle Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota: Changing Income Risk across the US Skill Distribution: Evidence from a Generalized Kalman Filter (Zoom)

Joachim Hubmer, University of Pennsylvania: Not a Typical Firm: The Joint Dynamics of Firms, Labor Shares, and Capital-Labor Substitution (Zoom)

3.30 pm Drinks and snacks

5.00 pm Adjourn