Anyone can register for the conference without any fees. Please send an email to vienna.macro@gmail.com if you would like to participate.
Registration for the 2026 conference deadline: Passed, was on August 30, 2026
Our Sponsors for 2026:
Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS). The institute was founded in 1963 by Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Oskar Morgenstern, and is currently under the direction of Holger Bonin
Vienna Graduate School of Economics (VGSE) (Maaten Janssen)
John Deutsch Institute (Christopher Cotton, Allen Head)
Manchester School (Akos Valentinyi)
Thursday, 15 October 2026: The Greenhorn Session
13:15 - 13:50
Registration
13:50 - 14:00
Opening Remarks: Gabriel Lee (Regensburg and IHS)
14:00 - 14:30
Hanbaek Lee (Cambridge),
Ye Sun (Cambridge)*
“Endogenous Plucking Through Networks: The Plucking Paradox*
14:30 - 14:40
Discussion Chair: Martin Gervais (UGA)
14:40 - 15:10
Akakpo Domefa Konou (SFU)*
“Financial knowledge, Rate of return and Wealth distribution”
15:10 - 15:20
Discussion Chair: Gueorgui Kambourov (Toronto)
15:20 - 15:30
SHORT BREAK
15:30 - 16:00
Barnabás Székely (Goethe)*
“Bankruptcy Resolution and the Macroeconomics of Cash Flow-Based Lending”
16:00 - 16:10
Discussion Chair: Florian Exler (NB of Slovakia)
16:10 - 16:40
Pengguang Lu (Manchester)*
“Heterogeneous Diagnostic Expectations and Wealth Inequality”
16:40 - 16:50
Discussion Chair: Boju Li (Liverpool)
16:50 - 17:00
SHORT BREAK
17:00 - 17:30
Stefano Grancini (Nova SBE)*
“Public Debt, iMPCs & Fiscal Policy Transmission”
17:30 - 17:40
Discussion Chair: Borghan Nezami Narajabad (FRB, Board)
17:40 - 18:10
Bohdan James Leniuk (Georgia)*
“The Long(er) Term Effects of Promotions”
18:10 - 18:20
Discussion Chair: Huw Lloyd-Ellis (Queen's)
18:20 - 18:30
SHORT BREAK
18:30 - 19:00
Jacquelyn Draper-Seo (Queen's)*
“Strategic Innovation, Spillovers, and Growth”
19:00 - 19:10
Discussion Chair: Michael Reiter (IHS)
19:30
Thursday Reception at Plutzer Bräu
Friday, 16 October 2026
9:00 - 9:25
Registration
9:25 - 9:30
Opening Remarks: Michael Reiter / Leopold Sögner / Sebastian Koch (IHS)
9:30 - 10:00
Poster Slam Session (VGSE) Session Chair: Fabian Greimel (Vienna)
Martino Biondani: Same Sun, Different Parasol: Temperature, Labor Productivity, and the Role of Adaptive Capacity
Elen Edilian: Human Health and the Environment (with Alexandra Brausmann)
László Kavalecz: The Margins of the Gender Gap: Evidence from Highway Expansions
10:00 - 10:45
Amanda Michaud (FRB-Minneapolis)*, Kathrin Ellieroth (Colby)
“What Quits and Layoffs Reveal About the Business Cycle”
10:45 - 11:00
Discussant: Leo Kaas (EUI)
Session Chair: Sevi Rodriguez Mora (CUNEF and Edinburgh)
11:00 - 11:15
SHORT BREAK
11:15 - 12:00
David Andolfatto (Miami), Roozbeh Hosseini (Georgia)*
“Clash of the Titans: Strategic Deindustrialization and Industrial Policy Games”
12:00 - 12:15
Discussant: Tom Holden (Bundesbank)
Session Chair: Henry Siu (VSE)
12:15 - 13:00
LUNCH BREAK
13:00 - 13:45
Jesse LaBelle (Northwestern), Fernando M. Martin (FRB St. Louis)*, Ana María Santacreu (FRB St. Louis)
"Taxation and the Global Allocation of Intangibles"
13:45 - 14:00
Discussant: Alex Mennuni (Southampton)
Session Chair: Alexander Karaivanov (SFU)
14:15 - 15:00
Leon Huetsch (Lausanne), Dirk Krueger (UPenn), Alexander Ludwig (EUI)*
“The Medical Expansion, Life Expectancy, and Endogenous Directed Technical Change”
15:00 - 15:15
Discussant: Adam Spencer (Bonn)
Session Chair: Yaniv Yedid-Levi (Reichman)
15:15 - 15:45
SHORT BREAK
15:45 - 16:30
Kamila Sommer (FRB Board)*, Alvaro Mezza (FRB Board), Daniel Ringo (FRB Board)
“The Marginal Propensity to Extract Housing Wealth: Evidence from Home Equity Windfalls”
16:30 - 16:45
Discussant: Patrick Macnamara (Manchester)
Session Chair: Christian Haefke (NYU, Abu Dhabi)
16:55 - 17:40
Frank Caliendo (Utah State), Erin Cottle Hunt (Reed), Aspen Gorry (Clemson)*, Jonathan Leganza (Clemson)
“Retirement and Consumption Insurance”
17:40 - 17:55
Discussant: Sujan Bandyopadhyay (Manchester)
Session Chair: Beverly Lapham (Queen’s)
19:30
Dinner at Marienhof
Saturday, 18 October 2026
9:30 - 10:00
Registration
10:00 - 10:45
Davide Alonzo (Montréal), Giovanni Gallipoli (UBC)*
“The Missing Wage Polarization”
10:45 - 11:00
Discussant: Tim Lee (Queen Mary)
Session Chair: Akos Valentinyi (Manchester)
11:00 - 11:15
SHORT BREAK
11:15 - 12:00
Marco Brianti (Bologna), Vito Cormun (SCU)*, Jianlin Wang (SCU)
“Inventories and Monetary Policy”
12:00 - 12:15
Discussant: Daria Finocchiaro (Sveriges Riksbank)
Session Chair: Cristiano Cantore (Sapienza)
12:15 - 13:00
LUNCH BREAK
13:00 - 13:45
Natalia Kovrijnykh (ASU)*, Igor Livshits (FRB Philadelphia), and Jacob Shepard (ASU)
“Eviction Policy and Household Formation”
13:45 - 14:00
Discussant: Iacopo Morchio (Bristol)
Session Chair: Antonia Diaz (Complutense)
14:15 - 15:00
Todd Keister (FRB New York), Kyungmin Kim (FRB Board), Romina Ruprecht (FRB Board)*
“Backing Stablecoins: Effects on Treasury Bill Demand and Bank Funding”
15:00 - 15:15
Discussant: David Andolfatto (Miami)
Session Chair: Harris Dellas (Surrey / KBI)
15:15 - 15:45
SHORT BREAK
15:45 - 16:30
Mila Markevych (UNC Charlotte)*
“Shifting Tastes, Advancing Technologies: A New Perspective on Income Inequality”
16:30 - 16:45
Discussant: Özlem Kına (Bilken)
Session Chair: Arpad Abraham (Bristol)
16:45 - 17:30
Alex Chernoff (Bank of Canada), Allen Head (Queen's)*, Beverly Lapham (Queen's)
“Consumer Search and Productivity Heterogeneity: Theory and Estimation”
17:30 - 17:45
Discussant: Thomas Hasenzagl (FRB RIchmond)
Session Chair: Lukas Altematt (Bern)
17:45 - 18:00
Concluding Remarks
19:00
Dinner at Orpheas
Other Official Participants (as of August 20, 2026):
Vanessa Dietl (Regensburg), Jonas Kremer (Regensburg), Tizian Dick (Regensburg), David Guckenberger (Regensburg), Ina Günther (Regensburg), Lilly Henschel (Regensburg), Lena Zeise (Regensburg), Nina Schmid (Regensburg), Francesca Carapella (Bundesbank), Ziqi Qiao (Bern), Fengfan Xiang (Bern), Nawid Siassi (TU Wien)
