Program for Vienna Macroeconomics Workshop 2005

1. Pareto Improving Social Security Reform When Financial Markets Are Incomplete

Dirk Krueger (Goethe, Frankfurt) and Felix Kubler (Institute of Economic Theory and Mannheim)

Discussant: Jim MacGee (Western Ontario)

Published in American Economic Review, 2006, 96(3):737-755.

2. Relative Price Distortions and Optimal Monetary Policy in Open Economies

Tack Yun (FR BG), Jinill Kim (FR BG), and Andrew Levin (FR BG)

Discussant: Harris Dellas (Bern)

Published as Relative Price Distortion and Optimal Monetary Policy in Open Economies

Published in Korean Economic Review, 2008, 24(1):5-31.

3. Optimal Stabilization Policy with Flexible Prices

Aleksander Berentsen (Basel) and Chris Waller (Notre Dame)

Discussant: Ted Temzelides (Pittsburgh)

Published as Price Level Targeting and Stabilization Policy

Published in Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 2011, 43(s2): 559-580

4. Import Protection as Export Destruction

Hiroyuki Kasahara (Queen's) and Beverly Lapham (Queen's)

Discussant: David DeJong (Pittsburgh)

Published as Productivity and the Decision to Import and Export: Theory and Evidence

Published in Journal of International Economics, 2013, 89(2): 297-316.

5. Limited Participation, Market Power, and Inflation Dynamics

Allen Head (Queen's) and Beverly Lapham (Queen's)

Discussant: Chris Waller (Notre Dame)

6. Oligopolistic Cost Innovation, Stock Markets, and Macroeconomic Development

Christos Koulovatianos (Vienna)

Discussant: Leo Kaas (Konstanz)

7. Fertility and Female Employment: A Different View of the Last 50 Years

Alice Schoonbroodt (Minnesota) and Sebastien Buttet (Minnesota)

Discussant: Julien Pratt (Vienna)

8. Strategic Saving Decisions in the Infinite-Horizon Model

Gerhard Sorger (Vienna)

Discussant: Felix Kubler (Mannheim)

Published in Economic Theory, 2008, 36(3):353-377.

9. Efficient Monetary Allocations and the Illiquidity of Bonds

Gabriele Camera (Purdue) and Paola Boel (Bowdoin College)

Discussant: David Andolfatto (Simon Fraser)

Published in Journal of Monetary Economics, 2006, 53(7):1693-1715.

10. Open Market Operations, Eligible Securities, and Macroeconomic Stabilization

Andreas Schabert (Amsterdam)

Discussant: Henry Siu (British Columbia).

11. Endogenous Participation Matters for the Business Cycle

Christian Haefke (Pompeu Fabra) and Micheal Reiter (Pompeu Fabra)

Discussant: Wouter den Haan (London Business School)