The conference takes place in Professorboligen (map).
All hours in local time. EST is –6 hours and PST is –9 hours.
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
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
This two-day conference conference promotes recent advances in macroeconomics. The conference will be arranged in the "Professorboligen" downtown Oslo.
The organizing committee is Elin Halvorsen (Statistics Norway), Gisle Natvik (BI Norwegian Business School), Kjetil Storesletten (University of Oslo), and Fredrik Wulfsberg (OsloMet).
Contact us at omc2020@oslomacro.no