Program For Vienna Macroeconomic Workshop 2016

1. Revisiting the Relationship Between Unemployment and Wages

Joao Alfredo Galindo da Fonseca (UBC), Giovanni Gallipoli (UBC), and Yaniv Yedid-Levi (UBC)

Discussant: Ludo Visschers (Univ. of Edinburgh)

2. Monetary Policy, Heterogeneity, and the Housing Channel

Aaron Hedlund (University of Missouri), Fatih Karahan (FRB New York), Kurt Mitman (IIES, Stockholm University), and Serdar Ozkan (University of Toronto)

Discussant: Antonia Diaz (Carlos III)

3. Nominal rigidities in debt and product markets

Finn E Kydland (UC Santa Barbara), Carlos Garriga (FRB St. Louis), and Roman Sustek (Queen Mary Univ. of London)

Discussant: Toni Braun (FRB Atlanta)

4. Aggregate Fluctuations, Consumer Credit and Bunkruptcy

David Fieldhouse (Moody's Analytics), Igor Livshits (Univ. of Western Ontario), and James MacGee (Univ. of Western Ontario)

Discussant: Leo Kaas (Univ. of Konstanz)

5. The implications of richer earnings dynamics for consumption and wealth

Mariacristina De Nardi (UCL), Giulio Fella (Queen Mary Univ. of London), and Gonzalo Paz-Pardo (UCL)

Discussant: Kathrin Schlafmann (IIES)

Forthcoming as Nonlinear household earnings dynamics, self-insurance, and welfare

Published in Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18.2: 890-926

6. Default, Mortgage Standards and Housing Liquidity

Allen Head (Queen's Univ.), Hongfei Sun (Queen's Univ.), and Chenggang Zhou (Univ. of Waterloo)

Discussant: Aaron Hedlund (Univ. of Missouri)

7. Reviving the Limit Cycle View of Macroeconomic Fluctuations

Paul Beaudry (UBC), Dana Galizia (Carleton Univ.), and Franck Portier (Toulouse School of Economics)

Discussant: Paul Klein (Stockholm University)

Published as Putting the Cycle Back into Business Cycle Analysis in American Economic Review Vol. 110, 2020, 1-47

8. Monetary Policy and Financial Stability

David Andolfatto (FRB St. Louis and Simon Fraser Univ.), Aleksander Berentsen (Univ. of Basel), and Fernando Martin (FRB St. Louis)

Discussant: Mariana Rojas Breu (Paris Dauphine Univ.)

9. Euler Equations and Income Shocks using Survey Data

Orazio Attanasio (Univ. College London and IFS), Agnes Kovacs (Univ. of Oxford), and Krisztina Molnar (Norwegian School of Economics)

Discussant: Felicia Lonescu (Board of Governors)

Published in Economica, 2020, 87.346: 406-441

10. Interest Rate Dynamics, Variable-Rate Loans, and the Business Cycle

Patrick A. Pintus (Banque de France), Yi Wen (FRB St. Louis and Tsinghua Univ.), and Xiaochuan Xing (Tsinghua Univ.)

Discussant: Paul Gomme (Concordia Univ.)

11. Self-fulfilling Runs: Evidence from the U.S. Life Insurance Industry

Nathan Foley-Fisher (Board of Governors), Borghan Narajabad (Board of Governors), and Stephane Verani (Board of Governors)

Discussant: Francesca Carapella (Board of Governors)

Published in Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128.9: 3520-3569

12. The Demographic Deficit

Espen Henriksen (UC Davis) and Thomas Cooley (NYU - Stern)

Discussant: Aspen Gorry (Utah State Univ.)

Published in Journal of Monetary Economics, 2018, 93(c): 45-62.

13. The Rise of Meritocracy and the Inheritance of Advantages

David Comerford (Univ. of Stirling), Jose V. Rodriguez Mora (Univ. of Edinburgh), and Michael J. Watts (Univ. of Edinburgh)

Discussant: Todd Schoellman (Arizona State Univ.)

14. On the Welfare Implications of Automation

Maya Eden (The World Bank) and Paul Gaggl (UNC Charlotte)

Discussant: Henry Siu (UBC)

Published in Review of Economic Dynamics, 2018, 29: 15-43.

Official Participants: Potential Discussants (as of September 25, 2016):

Aleksander Berentsen (Univ. of Basel), Alex Karaivanov (Simon Fraser Univ.), Alessandro Mennuni (Southhampton), Harris Dellas (Univ. of Bern), Chris Waller (FRB St. Louis), Carlos Garriga (FRB St. Louis),Gabe Lee (Regensburg and IHS), Martin Gervais (Univ. of Iowa), David Andolfatto (FRB St. Louis and Simon Fraser Univ.), Nathan Foley-Fisher (Board of Governors), Morris Davis (Rutgers), Lucas Herrenbrueck (SFU), Johannes Strobel (Regensburg), Emilio Espino (UTdT), Christian Haefke (NYU, Abu Dhabi), Michael Reiter (IHS), Felix Strobel (HU Berlin), Jelena Zivanovic (HU Berlin), Mohammed Aït Lahcen (Basel), Derya Filiz Unsal Portillo Ocando (IMF), Kurt e. w. v. Mitman (IIES), Alessandro Marchesiani (Minho), Minchul Yum (Mannheim), Anna Heller (Regensburg), Sabrina Genz (Regensburg), Ina Meier (Regensburg), Kerstin Zeise (Regensburg), Susanne Forster (IHS), Florian Madison (Basel)