Conference Program

A Conference in Honor of Tim Kehoe

University of Minnesota Department of Economics 


May 19th and 20th, 2023


Carlson Building: L-110

321 S 19th Ave

Minneapolis, Minnesota


Organizers:

Juan Carlos Conesa, Stony Brook University

Pau S. Pujolas, McMaster University

Kim Ruhl, University of Wisconsin-Madison



Friday, May 19th


9:00 am   Registration and Breakfast 


9:25 am Opening Remarks

  Thomas J. Holmes, University of Minnesota

     

Morning Session Chair: Juan Carlos Conesa


9:30-10:15 am Hal Cole, University of Pennsylvania

Information Spillovers and Sovereign Debt: Theory Meets the Eurozone Crisis by  H. Cole, D. Neuhann, and G. Ordonez


10:15-11:00 am David Levine, European University Institute

Limited Attention, Finite Reaction Automata  and Long-Run Efficiency by D.K. Levine


11:00-11:30 am Coffee


11:30-12:15 pm Jing Zhang, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Deindustrialization and Industry Polarization by Michael Sposi, Kei-Mu Yi, and Jing Zhang


12:15-1:30 pm Lunch


Afternoon Session Chair: Kim Ruhl


1:30-2:15 pm Juan Pablo Nicolini, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Mussa meets Backus-Smith: The Role of Primary Commodity Prices by J. Ayres, C. Hevia, and J.P. Nicolini


2:15-3:00 pm José-Víctor Ríos-Rull, University of Pennsylvania

Saving for a Sunny Day: An Alternative Theory of Precautionary Savings by  L. Briglia,  S. Chatterjee, D. Corbae,  K. Dempsey, J-V. Ríos-Rull,


3:00-3:30 pm Coffee/Refreshments Break


3:30-5:00 pm Special Three Paper Session (half hour each paper)

Timothy J. Kehoe, University of Minnesota (introduction on each paper)

Implications of Increasing College Attainment for Aging in General Equilibrium, by J.C. Conesa, T. J. Kehoe, V.M. Nygaard, and G. Raveendranathan.

Improving Applied General Equilibrium Models of Trade Liberalization by T. J. Kehoe,  P.S. Pujolas, J. Rossbach, and K. J. Ruhl

Firm Entry and Exit and Aggregate Growth by J. Asturias, S. Hur, and K. J. Ruhl.



Saturday, May 20th


9:00 pm Breakfast


Saturday Session Chair: Pau S. Pujolas


9:30-10:15 am Costas Arkolakis, Yale University

Clean Growth by C. Arkolakis and Conor Walsh


10:15-11:00 am Ina Simonovska, University of California, Davis

Risky Capital of Emerging Markets  by F. Gerding, E. Henriksen, and I. Simonovska


11:00-11:15 am Coffee/Refreshment Break


11:15-noon Patrick Kehoe

World Financial Cycles by Y. Bai , P. Kehoe, P. Lopez, F. Perri



Adjourn