Program for Vienna Macroeconomics Workshop 2009

1. Really, Really Rational Inattention: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Sticky Prices

Allen Head (Queen's), Lucy Qian Liu (Queen's), Guido Menzio (UPenn), and Randall Wright (UPenn)

Discussant: Chris Waller(FRB St. Louis)

Published as Sticky Prices: A New Monetarist Approach

Published in Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10(5): 939-973.

2. Trade-revealed TFP

Andrea Finicelli (Bank of Italy), Patrizio Pagano (Bank of Italy), and Massimo Sbracia (Bank of Italy)

Discussant: Harald Fadinger (Vienna)

3. Pairwise Trade, Asset Prices, and Monetary Policy

Ed Nosal (FRB Chicago), and Guillaume Rocheteau (UC Irvine)

Discussant: Marianna Rojas Breu (Basel)

Published in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 37(1): 1-17.

4. Spot Wages over the Business Cycle?

Marcus Hagedorn (Zurich) and Iourii Manovskii (UPenn)

Discussant: Giovanni Gallipoli (British Columbia)

Published as Job Selection and Wages over the Business Cycle

Published in American Economic Review, 2013, 103(2): 771-803.

5. Finance and Competition

Harris Dellas (Bern) and Ana Fernandes (Bern)

Discussant: Zoe Kuehn (Carlos III)

Published in Economic Journal, 2014, 124(575): 269-288.

6. Durable Consumption and Asset Management in the Presence of Transaction and Information Costs

Francesco Lippi (Sassari), Fernando E. Alvarez (Chicago), Luigi Guiso (European University Institute and EIEF)

Discussant: Igor Livshits (Western Ontario)

Published in American Economic Review, 2012, 102(5): 2272-2300.

7. Marriage, Fertility and Step-Families: An Equilibrium Analysis

John Knowles (Southampton) and John Kennes (Aarhus)

Discussant: Sevi Rodriguez-Mora (Edinburgh)

8. Inflation with Random Consumption and Production Timing

Borghan Narajabad (Rice)

Discussant: Aleks Berentsen (Basel)

9. Who Owns Children and Does It Matter?

Alice Schoonbroodt (Southampton) and Michèle Tertilt (Stanford, NBER, and CEPR)

Discussant: Henry Siu (British Columbia)

Published as Property Rights and Efficiency in OLG Models with Endogenous Fertility

Published in Journal of Economic Theory, 2014, 150: 551-583.

10. The Role of Financial Market Structure and the Trade Elasticity for Monetary Policy in Open Economies

Katrin Rabitsch (Central European and Magyar Nemzeti Bank)

Discussant: Margarita Rubio (Bank of Spain)

Published in Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2012, 44(4): 603-629.

11. Sequential Estimation of Dynamic Programming Models

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

Discussant: Alex Karaivanov (Simon Fraser)

12. Agglomeration and Productivity: New Estimates and Macroeconomic Implications

Morris Davis (Wisconsin), Jonas Fisher (FRB Chicago) and Toni M. Whited (Rochester)

Discussant: Alessandro Mennuni (Southampton)

Published as Macroeconomic Implications of Agglomeration

Published in Econometrica, 2014, 82(2): 731-764.

13. International and Intra-national Real Exchange Rates: Theory and Evidence

Viktoria Hnatkovska (British Columbia) and Michael Devereux (British Columbia)

Discussant: Harris Dellas (Bern)

Other Official Participants:

Chiara Forlati (Lausanne), Ted Temzelides (Rice), David Andolfatto (FRB St. Louis), Martin Gervais (Southampton), Gabe Lee (Regensburgh), Walter Fisher (IHS), Christian Haefke (IHS), Michael Reiter (IHS), Vally Koubi (Bern), Victor Dorofeenko (IHS), Christian Bauer (Regensburg), Alessia Campolni (CEU), Markus Knell (OeNB), Oke Roeke (Regensburg), Phillip Schmidt-Dengler (LSE).