Program for Vienna Macroeconomics Workshop 2012

1. Why Rent When You Can Buy? A Theory of Securities Lending Repurchase Agreements

Cyril Monnet (Bern) and Borghan Narajabad (Rice)

Discussant: Jaehong Kim (Basel and Purdue)

2. Can Contraception Account for the Decline of Marriage?

John Knowles (Southampton) and John Kennes (Aarhus)

Discussant: Hans Aasnes Holter (Uppsala)

3. A Model with Spillovers in the Adaptation of Renewable Technologies

Ted Temzelides (Rice), Bernardino Adao (Bank of Portugal), and Borghan Narajabad (Rice)

Discussant: Antonia Diaz (Carlos III)

Forthcoming in Quantitative Economics.

4. Nature and Nurture in the Transmission of Economic Status

Tim Sang Yoon Lee (Mannheim) and Ananth Seshadri (Wisconsin-Madison)

Discussant: David de Jong (Pittsburg)

Forthcoming as On the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status

Forthcoming in Journal of Political Economy

5. Too Big to Cheat

Emilio Espino (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella), Julian Kozlowski (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) and Juan M. Sanchez (FRB St. Louis)

Discussant: Alex Karaivanov (SFU)

Forthcoming as Investment and Bilateral Insurance

Forthcoming in Journal of Economic Theory

6. Equilibrium Intermediation and Resource Allocation With a Frictional Credit Market

José V. Rodríguez Mora (Edinburgh and CEPR) and Christian Bauer (LMU Munich)

Discussant: Chris Waller (FRB St. Louis)

7. Debt, Inflation and Central Bank Independence

Fernando M. Martin (FRB St. Louis and SFU)

Discussant: Benoit Julien (New South Wales)

Published in European Economic Review, 2015, 79: 129-150.

8. Firm age, business cycles and aggregate labor market dynamics

Petr Sedlacek (Bonn)

Discussant: Leo Kaas (Konstanz)

9. Reconstructing the Great Recession

Carlos Garriga (FRB St. Louis), Michele Boldrin (Wash U. and FRB St. Louis), Adrian Peralta-Alva (FRB St. Louis), and Juan Sanchez (FRB St. Louis)

Discussant: Ayse Imrohoroglu (USC)

Published in Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Third Quarter 2020, 102(3), pp. 271-311.

10. Unobservable Skill Dispersion and Comparative Advantage

Giovanni Gallipoli (UBC), Matilde Bombardini (UBC), and Germán Pupato (Getulio Vargas Foundation)

Discussant: Michael Reiter (IHS, Wien)

Published in Journal of International Economics, 2014, 92(2): 317-329.

11. Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Agents

Makoto Nakajima (FRB Philadelphia), Nils Gornemann (Penn and FRB Philadelphia), and Keith Kuester (FRB Philadelphia)

Discussant: Francesca Carapella (Board of Governors)

12. Unemployment and Household Unsecured Debt

Peter Rupert (UC Santa Barbara), Guillaume Rocheteau (UC Irvine), and Zach Bethune (UC Santa Barbara)

Discussant: Borghan Narajabad (Rice)

Published as Aggregate Unemployment and Household Unsecured Debt

Published in Review of Economic Dynamics, 2015, 18(1): 77-100.

Other Registered Participants: (As of October 2, 2012)

David Andolfatto (FRB St. Louis and SFU), Martin Gervais (Iowa), Gabe Lee (Regensburg/IHS), Walter Fisher (IHS), Vally Koubi (Bern), Victor Dorofeenko (IHS), Oke Roehe (Regensburg), Harris Dellas (Bern), Kamila Sommer (Board of Governors, FRS), Ludo Visschers (Carlos III), Chetan Dave (NYU), Christos Koulovatianos (Luxembourg), Krisztina Molnar (NHH), Samuel Huber (Basel), Alessandro Marchesiani (University of Minho), Jamsheed Shorish (IHS), Karol Mazur (IHS), Mathias Brunner (WU Vienna), Maximilian Liegler (WU Vienna), Monika Kosmalska (WU Vienna), Markus Knell (OeNB), Paul Pichler (OeNB), Christof Weigelmeier (WU Vienna), Stefan Schmelzer (IHS), Michael Miess (IHS), Diego Heatherman (WU Vienna), Alice Schoonbroodt (Iowa)