Program for Vienna Macroeconomics Workshop 2019
Greenhorn Session
1. Capital Regulations and the Rise of Shadow Banking
Hyunju Lee (Ryerson), Sunyoung Lee (Seoul) and Radoslaw Paluszynski (Houston)
Discussion Chair: Chris Waller (FRB St. Louis)
2. Monetary Policy Implementation under Negative Interest Rates
Romina Ruprecht (SNB), Aleksander Berentsen (Basel) and Benjamin Müller (Basel)
Discussion Chair: Radek Paluszynski (Houston)
3. Opacity: Insurance and Fragility
Ryuichiro Izumi (Wesley)
Discussion Chair: Martin Gervais (Georgia)
4. Unemployment Insurance and Occupational Switching
Anna Houstecka (Autonoma de Barcelona)
Discussion Chair: Martin Wolf (Wien)
5. Household Heterogeneity and the Adjustment to External Shocks of a Small Open Economy
Julia Otten (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Discussion Chair: Iacopo Morchio (Wien)
6. Sudden Stops and Reserve Accumulation in the Presence of International Liquidity Risk
Leopold Zessner-Spitzenberg and Flora Lutz (Wien, VGSE)
Discussion Chair: Gabriel Lee (Regensburg / IHS)
Poster Slam Session: Doctoral Students (VGSE)
Session Chair: Florian Exler (Univ Vienna)
1). Nikola Grga: "Sources of the Long Term Movements of the Stock Market"
2). Regina Kiss: "Price setting under bilateral heterogeneity"
3). Alexander Hansak: "The Distributional Effects of Tax Evasion"
4). Zuzana Molnarova: "IHS macroeconomic model for impact assessment of public policies"
5). Jurica Zrnc: "The Late Payment Clearinghouse"
Regular Session
7. The Limits of Forward Guidance
Jonas Fisher, Jeff Campbell, Filippo Ferroni and Leo Melosi (all at FRB Chicago)
Discussant: Marcus Hagedon (UIO)
Session Chair: Anton Braun (FRB Atlanta)
8. Endogenous Growth, Endogenous Finance
Daria Finocchiaro (Sveriges Riksbank and Uppsala) and Philippe Weil (Libre de Bruxelles)
Discussant: Akos Valentinyi (Manchester)
Session Chair: Borghan Narajabad (Board of Governors, FRS)
9. Public Employment in a Theory of Underemployment
Pietro Garibaldi (Torino), Pedro Gomes (Birbeck) and Thepthida Sopraseuth (Cergy-Pontoise)
Discussant: Christian Merkl (FAU, Nürnberg)
Session Chair: Roman Sustek (Quenn Mary)
10. Sustainable Intergenerational Insurance
Francesco Lancia (Salerno), Alessia Russo (BI Norwegian Business School) and Tim Worrall (Edinburgh)
Discussant: Paul Klein (Stockholm)
Session Chair: Ctirad Slavik (CERGE)
11. Organization of Knowledge and Taxation
Marek Kapicka and Ctirad Slavík (both at CERGE)
Discussant: Asier Mariscal (U.Rovira i Virgili)
Session Chair: Natalia Kovrijnykh (ASU)
12. The (Ir)relevance of Real Wage Rigidity for Optimal Monetary Policy
Britta Kohlbrecher (FAU,Nürnberg)
Discussant: Allen Head (Queen)
Session Chair: Sevi Mora (Edingburg)
13. Firm Heterogeneity in Skill Returns
Michael J. Bohm (Bonn), Khalil Esmkhani (UBC) and Giovanni Gallipoli (UBC)
Discussant: Serdar Ozkan (Toronto)
Session Chair: Georgi Kocharkov (Deutsche Bundesbank)
14. Blockchains, Collateral and Financial Contracts
Alex Karaivanov (SFU)
Discussant: Aleksander Berentsen (Basel)
Session Chair: Antonia Diaz (Carlos III)
15. Unequal Growth
Francesco Lippi (EIEF and LUISS) and Fabrizio Perri (FRB, Minneapolis)
Discussant: Neil Mehrotra (Brown)
Session Chair: Andrea Gatto (NRI at Greenwich & NCH at Northeastern)
16. Replacement Hiring and the Productivity-Wage Gap
Shu Lin Wee (Carnegie Mellon) and Sushant Acharya (FRB New York)
Discussant: Gueorgui Kambourov (Toronto)
Session Chair: Aspen Gorry (Clemson)
17. A Tale of Two Workers: The Macroeconomics of Automation
Yaniv Yedid-Levi (IDC Herzliya), Nir Jaimovich (Zurich), Itay Saporta-Eksten (Tel Aviv and UCL) and Henry Siu (UBC)
Discussant: Maximilano Dvorkin (FBR St. Louis)
Session Chair: Harris Dallas (Bern)
18. On the Essentiality of Credit and Banking at the Friedman Rule
Paola Boel (Riskbank) and Chris Waller (FRB, St. Louis)
Discussant: Carolyn Sissoko (Independent researcher)
Session Chair: Xavier Mateos-Planas (Queen Mary)
19. Why Doesn't Technology Flow to Poor Countries?
Todd Schoellman (FRB Minneapolis), Jonas Hjort (Columbia) and Hannes Malmberg (Minnesota)
Discussant: Giulio Fella (Queen Mary)
Session Chair: Henry Siu (UBC)
* Presenter
Other Official Participants: (Final as of October 7, 2019)
Michael Reiter (IHS/VGSE), Stefanie Braun (Regensburg), Vanessa Kunzmann (Regensburg), Jonas Kremer (Regensburg), Veronika Schmid (Regensburg), Alessandro Marchesiani (Liverpool), Tamas Papp (IHS), Susanne Forster (IHS), Gerhard Sorger (Wien), Marina Markheim (Basel), Philipp Schmidt-Dengler (Wien), Monika Merz (Wien), Maria Koumenta, (Queen Mary), Nawid Siassi (TU Wien), Betttina Hametner (Raiffeisenlandesbank), Emanuel Gasteiger (TU Wien), Katrin Rabitsch (WU Wien)