Program for Vienna Macroeconomics Workshop 2011

1. Understanding Permanent Black-White Earnings Inequality

Alejandro Badel (FRB St. Louis)

Discussant: Don Schlagenhauf (Florida State)2. Towards a Micro-Founded Theory of Aggregate Labor Supply

Andres Erosa (IMDEA) , Luisa Fuster (IMDEA ), and Gueorgui Kambourov (Toronto)

Discussant: Giovani Gallipoli (British Columbia)

Published as Towards a Micro-Founded Theory of Aggregate Labour Supply.

Published in Review of Economic Studies, 2016, 83(3): 1001-1039.

3. Firm Level Productivity, Risk, and Return

Ayse Imrohoroglu (USC), and Selale Tüzel (USC)

Discussant: Igor Livshits (Western Ontario)

Published in Management Science, 2014, 60.

4. Structural Unemployment

Thijs van Rens (CREI and Pompeu Fabra) and Benedikt Herz (Pompeu Fabra)

Discussant: Michael Reiter (IHS, Wien)

5. Labour Force Composition and Aggregate Fluctuations

Alessandro Mennuni (Southampton)

Discussant: Ludo Visschers (Carlos III)

6. Technological Learning and Labor Market Dynamics

Henry Siu (British Columbia and NBER), Martin Gervais (Iowa), Nir Jaimovich (Duke and NBER), and Yaniv Yedid-Levi (British Columbia)

Discussant: Peter Rupert (UC Santa Barbara)

Published as International Economic Review, 2015, 56: 27-53.

7. Partisan Cycles and the Consumption Volatility Puzzle

8. A Theory of Energy Use

Luis A. Puch (Complutense, FEDEA and ICAE), Antonia Diaz (Carlos III) and Raouf Boucekkine (Catholique)

Discussant: Cyril Monet (FRB Philadelphia)

9. Smoothing Shocks and Balancing Budgets in a Currency Union

James Costain (Bank of Spain) and Beatriz de Blas (Autonoma)

Discussant: Harris Dellas (Bern)

Published in Moneda y Credito, 2012, 234: 37-91.

10. Distinguishing Across Models of International Capital Flows

Alexander Karaivanov (Simon Fraser), Mark Wright (UCLA)

Discussant: Allen Head (Queen's)

11. Equilibrium Bank Runs Revisited

Ed Nosal (FRB Chicago)

Discussant: Nico Trachter (EIEF)

12. Private Information Acquisition and Undue Diligence

Aleksander Berentsen (Basel and FRB St. Louis), David Andolfatto (FRB St. Louis and Simon Fraser), and Chris Waller (FRB St. Louis and Notre Dame)

Discussant: Gabriele Camera (Purdue)

Published as Optimal Disclosure Policy and Undue Diligence

Published in Journal of Economic Theory, 2014, 149: 128-152.

13. A General Equilibrium Theory of College with Education Subsidies, In-School Labor Supply, and Borrowing Constraints

Carlos Garriga (FRB St Louis) and Mark Keightley (Congressional Research Office)

Discussant: Sevi Rodríguez Mora (Edinburgh)

14. Information Insensitive Securities: the Benefits of Central Counterparties

Francesca Carapella (FRBG) and David C. Miller (FRBG)

Discussant: General Discussion