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)

4. Crime and the Minimum Wage

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

6. Do Financial Constraints Cool a Housing Boom? Theory and Evidence from a Macroprudential Policy on Million Dollar Homes

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)

8. Default Cycles

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)