Program for Vienna Macroeconomics Workshop 2007

1. Elastic Money, Inflation, and Monetary Policy

Allen Head (Queen's) and Junfeng Qiu (Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing)

Discussant: Aleksander Berentsen (Basel)

2. Home Bias in Goods and Assets

Harris Dellas (Bern), Fabrice Collard (Toulouse), Behzad Diba (Georgetown), and Alan Stockman (Rochester)

Discussant: Jim MacGee (Western Ontario)

3. Accounting for Corruption: The Effect of Tax Evasion and Inflation on Growth

Michal Kejak (CERGE-EI) and Max Gillman (Cardiff)

Discussant: Chris Waller (Notre Dame)

4. Sequential Estimation of Structural Models with a Fixed Point Constraint

Hiroyuki Kasahara (British Columbia) and Katsumi Shimotsu (Hitotsubashi)

Discussant: Alexander Karaivanov (Simon Fraser)

Published in Econometrica, 2012, 80(5): 2303-2319.

5. Oil Price Shocks: Demand vs. Supply in A Two-Country Model

Allesia Campolmi (Central European)

Discussant: Krizstina Molnar (Norwegian School of Economics)

6. Wages, Rents, and Quality of Life

Morris Davis (Wisconsin) and Francois Ortalo-Magne (Wisconsin)

Discussant: Andrea Finicelli (Bank of Italy)

Published as Household Expenditures, Wages, Rents

Published in Review of Economic Dynamics, 2011, 14(2):248-261.

7. The Cyclical Behavior of Equity Turnover in Financial Markets

David DeJong (Pittsburgh) and Emilio Espino (de Tella)

Discussant: Michael Reiter (IHS)

Published as The cyclical behavior of equity turnover

Published in Quantitative Economics, 2011, 2(1): 99-133.

8. Horizontal Innovations with Quality Choice

Gerhard Sorger (Vienna)

Discussant: Sevi Rodriguez Mora (Southampton)

Published as Horizontal Innovations with Endogenous Quality Choice

Published in Economica, 2011, 78(312):697-722.

9. Tax Rates, Governance, and the Informal Economy in High-Income Countries

Zoe Kuehn (Carlos III)

Discussant: Max Gillman (Cardiff)

Published in Economic Inquiry, 2014, 52(1): 405-430.

10. Sovereign Default and Banking

Igor Livshits (Western Ontario)

Discussant: Cyril Monnet (FRB Philadelphia)

11. Trends in Fertility and the Intertemporal Elasticity of Substitution in Dynastic Models

Alice Schoonbroodt (Southampton) and Larry E. Jones (Minnesota)

Discussant: Jeremy Lise (College London)

Published as Complements Versus Substitutes and Trends in Fertility Choices in Dynastic Models

Published in International Economic Review, 2010, 51(3):671-699.

12. The Fiscal Role of Conscription in the U.S. WWII Effort

Henry Siu (British Columbia)

Discussant: Gernot Doppelhofer (Norwegian School of Economics)

Published in Journal of Monetary Economics, 2008, 55(6):1094 -1112.