Program For Vienna Macroeconomics Workshop 2017
Greenhorn Session
1. Fiscal Progressivity, Redistribution and the Time-Consistency of Monetary Policy
Antoine Camous (University of Mannheim)
Discussion Chair: Anton Braun (FRB Atlanta)
2. In Fed Watchers’ Eyes: Hawks, Doves and Monetary Policy
Klodiana Istrefi (Banque de France)
Discussion Chair: Borghan Narajabad (Board of Governors, FRS)
3. Risk Sharing with Excludable and Non-Excludable Common Goods
Karol Mazur (EUI Florence)
Discussion Chair: Jonathan Halket (Essex)
Christine Braun (UCSB)
Discussion Chair: Giovanni Gallipoli (UBC)
Published in Review of Economic Dynamics, 2019, 32: 122-152
5. Optimal Design and Quantitative Evaluation of the Minimum Wage
Zachary Mahone (U Toronto) and Pau S. Pujola (McMaster U)
Discussion Chair: Alexander Karaivanov (SFU)
Regular Session
Derek Stacey (Ryerson), Lu Han (Toronto), Chandler Lutz (Copenhagen Business School), Benjamin Sand (York U)
Discussant: Kathrin Schlafman (IIES)
Session Chair: Paul Gaggl (UNCC)
7. Measuring the Effect of the Zero Lower Bound on Monetary Policy
Fernanda Nechio (FRS SF), Carlos Calvalho (UC-Rio and Central Bank Brazil), Eric Hsu (UC Berkeley)
Discussant: Jonas Fisher (FRS Chicago)
Session Chair: Fernando Martin (FRB St. Louis)
Leo Kaas (U Konstanz), Wei Cui (UCL)
Discussant: Igor Livshits (FRB Philadelphia)
Session Chair: Cyril Monnet (Bern)
Forthcoming in Journal of Monetary Economics, 2020
9. A Demand Theory of the Price Level
Marcus Hagedorn (Oslo)
Discussant: Allen Head (Queens
Session Chair: Sevi Mora (Edingburg)
10. Permanent Income Inequality
Brant Abbott (Queen's) with Giovanni Gallipoli (UBC)
Discussant: General Discussion
Session Chair: Carlos Garriga (FRB St. Louis)
11. Structural Change within Services and the Future of Baumol Disease
Berthold Herrendorf (ASU), Georg Duernecker (Mannheim), Ákos Valentinyi (U Manchester)
Discussant: Aspen Gorry (Clemson)
Session Chair: Henry Siu (UBC)
12. Leverage Bounds with Default and Asymmetric Information
Radim Bohácek (Charles U and CERGE)
Discussant: Ariel Zetlin-Jones (CMU)
Session Chair: Aleks Berentsen (Basel)
13. Building Credit Histories with Heterogeneously-Informed Lenders
Natalia Kovrijnykh (ASU), Igor Livshits (FRB Philadelphia), Ariel Zetlin-Jones (CMU)
Discussant: Pamela Labadie (GWU)
Session Chair: Yaniv Yedid-Levi (UBC)
14. Commodity Prices and Sovereign Default: A New Perspective on The Harberger-Laursen-Metzler Effect
Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria (FRB St. Louis), Franz Hamann (Banco de La Republica), Enrique G. Mendoza (Penn)
Discussant: Paul Klein (Stockhom)
Session Chair: Morris Davis (Rutgers)
15. Asset Issuance in Over-the-Counter Markets
Zach Bethune (Virginia) with Bruno Sultanum (Bruno Sultanum), Nicholas Trachter (FRB Richmond)
Discussant: Borghan Narajabad (Board of Governors, FRS)
Session Chair: Harris Dellas (Bern)
Published in Review of Economic Dynamics, 2019, 33: 4-29
16. Uninsured Unemployment Risk and Optimal Monetary Policy
Edouard Challe (CREST & Ecole Polytechnique)
Discussant: Daniel Carrol (FRB, Cleveland)
Session Chair: Chris Waller (FRB St. Louis)
Published in American Economic Journal, Macroeconomics, 2020, 12.2: 241-83
17. Endogenous Regime Switching Near the Zero Lower Bound
Kevin Lansing (FRB SF)
Discussant: Roman Sustek (Queen Mary)
Session Chair: Filip Rozsypal (LSE / Danmarks Nationalbank)
Official Participants / Potential Discussants (as of Oct 5, 2017):
Johannes Strobel (Regensburg), Anna Heller (Regensburg), Stefanie Braun (Regensburg), Vanessa Kunzmann (Regensburg), Daniela Blascyk (Regensburg), Veronika Pueschel (Regensburg), Alessandro Marchesiani (Liverpool), Mohammed Aït Lahcen (Basel), Romina Ruprecht (Basel), Gurneev Panesar (SFU), Florian Exler (U Wien), Florian Madison (Basel), Lukas Altermatt (Basel), Johanna Starkl (Regensburg), Marina Rojas Breu (Université Paris Dauphine), Tamas Papp (IHS)