ProgramME

Pavia, Friday 20th December 2019

VENUE: Aula Scarpa, Main University Buildings, Corso Strada Nuova 65

PROGRAMME (Downloadable version)

Session I: Firms and Consumers

9.15 – 10.00 STEFANIA ALBANESI, University of Pittsburgh NBER and CEPR

“Predicting Consumer Default: A Deep Learning Approach”

Discussant: ALESSANDRO SPELTA, University of Pavia

10.00 – 10.45 GIUSEPPE FIORI, Federal Reserve Board and North Carolina State University

“Aggregate Dynamics and Microeconomic Heterogeneity: The Role of Vintage Technology”

Discussant: BEATRIZ GONZALES, Bank of Spain

10.45 – 11.15 Coffee Break

11.15 – 12.00 FABIO MASSIMO PIERSANTI, University of Milan Bicocca

“Endogenous Propagation and Persistence of Innovations in a Business Cycle Model of Endogenous Firm Dynamics”

Discussant: MARCO MAFFEZZOLI, Bocconi University

12.00 – 12.45 MAX CROCE, Bocconi University

“Uncertainty-Induced Reallocations and Growth”

Discussant: ELISA GUGLIELMINETTI, Bank of Italy

12.45– 13.45 Lunch Break

Session II: Monetary and Fiscal Policy

13.45– 14.30 PIERRE DE LEO, University of Maryland

“International Spillovers and the Exchange Rate Channel of Monetary Policy”

Discussant: AMBROGIO CESA-BIANCHI, Bank of England

14.30 – 15.15 MATTEO CACCIATORE, Bank of Canada and HEC Montréal

“Trade Flows and Fiscal Multipliers”

Discussant: LILIA CAVALLARI, University of Rome III

15.15 – 15.45 Coffee Break

15.45 – 16.30 SIMONE AUER, Bank of Italy

“Corporate Leverage and Monetary Policy Effectiveness in the Euro Area”

Discussant: ANDREA TAMBALOTTI, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

16.30 – 17.15 JENNY CHAN, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and Barcelona GSE

“Monetary Policy and Sentiment Driven Fluctuations”

Discussant: DAVIDE MELCANGI, Federal Reserve Bank of New York