8.30 Registration and coffee
9.00 Arellano, Cristina (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis): Monetary Policy and Sovereign Risk
10.15 La’O, Jennifer (Columbia University): Monetary Policy in Supply Chain Network Economies
11.30 Panel discussion on credit regulation and inequality
Participants: Cristina Arellano, Enrique G. Mendoza, Kari Elisabeth Kaski (SV), and Jon Gunnar Pedersen (Arctic Securities)
Moderator: Bård Bjerkholt, DN
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Heise, Sebastian (NY Fed): Inflation Strikes Back: The Return of Wage to Price Pass-Through
14.15 Swanson, Eric (UC Irvine): A Reassessment of Monetary Policy Surprises and High-Frequency Identification
15.15 Wold, Ella Getz (BI): The leverage-liquidity tradeoff of mortgage regulation
16.00 Ragot, Xavier (Sciences Po): Should we increase or decrease public debt? Optimal fiscal policy with heterogeneous agents
16.45 Adjourn
8.30 Coffee and pastries
9.00 Mendoza, Enrique G. (University of Pennsylvania): Beware the Side Effects: Capital Controls, Misallocation and Welfare
10.15 Hale, Galina (UC Santa Cruz): Fiscal support measures during COVID and inflation.
10.35 Larkin, Kieran (IIES): Robust Consumption Inference: extracting recession expectations from a restricted consumption basket
10.55 Nord, Lukas (European University Institute): Distributive Effects of Banking Sector Losses
11.15 Coffee break
11.30 Kramer, John (Copenhagen University): The Cyclicality of Earnings Growth along the Distribution – Causes and Consequences
11.50 Karlman, Markus (NHH): Why has house prices diverged? The role of interest rates
12.10 Lorentzen, Linnea (BI): The Domino Effects: Understanding Sectoral Reallocation and its Wage Implications
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Kaas, Leo (Goethe) Rescue Policies for Small Businesses in the COVID-19 Recession
14.30 Manea, Cristina (BIS): Big Techs and the credit channel of monetary policy.
15.15 Rendahl, Pontus (CBS) Unexpected Effects: Uncertainty, Unemployment, and Inflation
16.00 Adjourn
This conference promotes advances in macroeconomic research and aims to connect it to economic policy.
The organizing committee is Elin Halvorsen (Statistics Norway), Kasper Kragh-Sørensen (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).
Contact us at oslomacrogroup@gmail.com