2024

We dedicate this year's conference to our dear colleague Paul Klein (20.09.1968 - 19.08.2024)

Our Sponsors for 2024:

• Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS). The institute was founded in 1963 by Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Oskar Morgenstern, and is currently under the direction of Holger Bonin 

• Rutgers Business School Newark and New Brunswick: Center for Real Estate (Mo Davis)

• John Deutsch Institute  (Christopher Cotton, Allen Head) 

• Manchester School (Akos Valentinyi) 

Thursday, 17 October 2024: The Greenhorn Session 

14:45 - 15:25

Registration

15:25 - 15:30

Opening Remarks: Gabriel Lee (University of Regensburg and IHS)

15:30 - 16:00

Riccardo Silvestrini (ESE)*

“Market Power Increase and Sectoral Heterogeneity: the Role of e-Commerce Platforms”

16:00 - 16:10

Discussion Chair: Karsten Reichold (TU Wien)

16:10 - 16:40

Philipp Hochmuth (OeNB)*

“Declining Hours Worked Among Entrepreneurs”

16:40 - 16:50

Discussion Chair: Harris Dellas (Bern / FRB, St. Louis)

16:50 - 17:00: Short Break

17:00 - 17:30

Cyril Monnet and Remo Taudien* (University of Bern and Study Center Gerzensee)

“The Value of a Future Medium of Exchange”

17:30 - 17:40

Discussion Chair: Vanessa Kunzmann (Central Bank of Malta)

17:40 - 18:10

Boju Li (University of Liverpool),* Fan Liang (Loyola Marymount University), Alessandro Marchesiani (University of Liverpool)

“E-money and Payment Flow Competition”

18:10 - 18:20

Discussion Chair:   Michael Hauser (WU)

18:20 - 18:30: Short Break

18:30 - 19:00

Titan Alon (UCSD), Natalie Cox (Princeton), Minki Kim (Mannheim)*

“Debt, Human Capital, and the Allocation of Talent”

19:00 - 19:10

Discussion Chair: Yaniv Yedid-Levi (Reichman)

20:30

Thursday Reception at Plutzer Bräu

*Presenters

Friday, 18 October 2024

9:00 - 9:25 Registration

9:25 - 9:30 Opening Remarks: Michael Reiter (IHS)

9:30 - 10:00 Poster Slam Session (VGSE) Session Chair: Florian Exler (Wien)

1 Manuel Gruber* and Johannes Holler: "Forecasting the term structure of Euro Area swap rates and Austrian yields during

times of unconventional monetary policy"

2 Andrei Kalk: "Protecting the environment:On the interplay between voluntary contributions and public policy"

3 Fabien Prettenthaler*, Brigitte Hochmuth and Monika Gehrig-Merz: "Heterogeneous Risk Preferences, Entrepreneurship, and

Wealth Inequality"

4 Philipp Ulbing: "Transmission of Monetary Policy in an Abundant Reserves Environment"

5 Viola Garstenauer (TU Wien): "Somewhere in Between? Cohabiting Couples, and Their Role in Tax Policy"

10:00 - 10:45 Juan Carlos Conesa (SBU),* Yan Wang (Beijing Normal

University)

“The evolution of income and wealth inequality in China”

Discussant: Gueorgui Kambourov (Toronto)

Session Chair: Alex Karaivanov (SFU)

10:45 - 11:00

11:00 - 11:15 SHORT BREAK

11:15 - 12:00 James Kahn (Yeshiva University),* Louis Maccini

(Johns Hopkins)

“Kicking the Habit: Time-to-Build versus Adjustment Costs to

Consumption and Investment”

Discussant: Anton Braun (GRIPS)

Session Chair: Arpad Abraham (Bristol)

12:00 - 12:15

12:15 - 13:00 LUNCH (Take your lunch to the next presentation)

13:00 - 13:45 Sergio Cappellini (Padua), Francesco Lancia (Venice),

Alessia Russo (Padua and CEPR),* Tim Worrall

(Edinburgh)

“Sustainable Social Security”

Discussant: Roozbeh Hosseini (Georgia)

Session Chair: Sevi Mora (CUNEF / Edinburgh)

13:45 - 14:00

14:15 - 15:00 Marcus Hagedorn (University of Oslo)* “A Nominal Demand-Augmented Phillips Curve: Theory and

Evidence ”

Discussant: Fernando Martin (FRB, St. Louis)

Session Chair: Amy Sun (Queen’s)

15:00 - 15:15

15:15 - 15:45 SHORT BREAK

15:45 - 16:30 Michał Brzoza-Brzezina (Warsaw School of

Economics),* Julia Jablonska (Warsaw), Marcin Kolasa

(IMF and Warsaw), Krzysztof Makarski (Warsaw)

“For whom the bill tolls: redistributive consequences of a

monetary-fiscal stimulus”

Discussant: Cristiano Cantore (Sapienza)

Session Chair: Henry Siu (UBC) 16:30 - 16:45

16:55 - 17:40 Amanda Michaud (FRB, Minneapolis),* Timothy Moore

(Purdue), David Wiczer (FRB, Atlanta)

“The Place-Based Redistribution of Disability Insurance”

Discussant: Alexander Ludwig (EUI)

Session Chair: John Kennes (Aarhus) 17:40 - 17:55

18:10 - 18:30 Christoph J. Waller (FRB Board) “DeFi and Crypto”

Saturday, 19 October 2024

9:30 - 10:00

Registration

10:00 - 10:45

Christine Braun (Warwick),* Travis Cyronek (BLS), Peter Rupert (UCSB)

“Measuring the Productivity of Working from Home”

10:45 - 11:00

Discussant: Mo Davis (Rutgers)

Session Chair: Nawid Siassi (TU Wien)

11:00 - 11:15

SHORT BREAK

11:15 - 12:00

Francesco Lippi (LUISS),* Aleksei Oskolkov (Princeton)

“A structural model of asymmetric lumpy investment  ”

12:00 - 12:15

Discussant: Miguel H. Ferreira (Queen Mary)

Session Chair: Allen Head (Queen’s)

12:15 - 13:00

LUNCH (Take your lunch to the next presentation)

13:00 - 13:45

Gorkem Bostaci (UBC),* Guillermo Ordonez (UPenn)

“Business, Liquidity, and Information Cycles”

13:45 - 14:00

Discussant: Natalia Kovrijnykh (ASU)

Session Chair: Borghan Nezami Narajabad (FRB, Board)

14:15 - 15:00

Long Qian (University of Edinburgh), Galina Vereshchagina (Arizona State University)*

“Capital financing constraints, size-dependent distortions, and aggregate productivity”

15:00 - 15:15

Discussant: Joao Galindo da Fonseca (Montreal) 

Session Chair: Fabian Greimel (Wien)

15:15 - 15:45

SHORT BREAK

15:45 - 16:30

Zachary Mahone (McMaster),* Marcelo Arbex (Windsor)

“Materials, Technology and Growth: Quantifying the Costs of Circularity”

16:30 - 16:45

Discussant: Sampreet S. Goraya (SSE)

Session Chair: Xavier Mateos-Planas (Queen Mary)

16:45 - 17:30

Jim Bullard (Purdue), Alex Grimaud (OeNB),* Isabelle Salle (Ottawa), Gauthier Vermandel (Polytechnique)

“Soft Landing and Inflation Scares”

17:30 - 17:45

Discussant: Lukas Altermatt (Essex)

Session Chair: Carlos Ramirez (FRB, Board)

17:45 - 18:00

SHORT BREAK

18:00 - 18:45

Chang Liu (Singapore), Joel McMurry (Uber), and Noah Williams (UMiami)*

“Growth Accounting at the States”

18:45 - 19:00

Discussant: Sebastian Dyrda (Toronto)

Session Chair: Akos Valentinyi (Mancester)

20:00

Dinner at Orpheus

*Presenters

Other Official Participants (as of September 25, 2024):

Vanessa Dietl (Regensburg), Jonas Kremer (Regensburg), Leonie Müller-Judex (Regensburg), Ole Ahrens (Regensburg), Stella Polinski (Regensburg), Gil Burghardt (Regensburg), Benjamin Wolf (Regensburg), Lena Zeise (Regensburg), Nina Schmid (Regensburg), David Zettler (TU, Wien), Martin Wagner (Bank of Slovenia), Leopold Zessner (TU, Wien)