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

9.55 Natalie Rickard (London Business School): “Non-essential Business Cycles”

10.35 Hugo Reichardt (London School of Economics): “Scale-Biased Technical Change and Inequality”

11.15 Coffee

Part V:  Revolver 2

11.25 Ragnar Juelsrud (Norges Bank): “What Do 12 Billion Card Transactions Say About House Prices and Consumption?”

11.45 Tim Dominik Maurer (Norwegian School of Economics): “Population Aging, Public Finances, and Alternatives for Retirement Reform”

12.05 Lunch

Part VI

13.05 Ralph Luetticke (University of Tübingen): "HANK's Response to Aggregate Uncertainty in an Estimated Business Cycle Model"

14.05 Coffee 

14.20 Anne Hannusch (University of Mannheim): “Cohabitation, Child Development, and College Costs”

15.00 Kieran Larkin (IIES): “The Rise of Women and Decline of Education”

15.40 Adjourn