I-85 Macroeconomics Workshop
I-85 Macroeconomics Workshop is an effort to build ties between macroeconomics researchers in the Southeast and to expose graduate students pursing a PhD in economics to macroeconomic research.
Second I-85 Macro Workshop
May 3, 2019
Clemson University
Program:
8:30am-9:00am: Welcome, coffee and refreshments.
9:00am-10:00am: Simon Fuchs, Atlanta Fed, “The Spoils of War: Trade Shocks during WWI and Spain's Regional Development”
10:00am-10:15am: Coffee Break
10:15am-11:15am: Can Tian, UNC Chapel Hill, “Forecast Shocks in Production Networks”
11:15am-11:30am: Coffee Break
11:30am -12:30pm: Cheng Chen, Clemson, “Uncertainty, Imperfect Information, and Learning in the International Market”
12:30pm -1:30pm: Lunch and Student Presentations
12:40pm-12:55pm: Nicholas Maeder, Vanderbilt, “Macroeconomic Transmission of a Financial Fire Sale: A Story of Aggregate Demand ”
12:55pm-1:10pm: Aliaksandr Zaretski, Emory, “Optimal Macroprudential Policy without Default Risk”
1:10pm-1:25pm: Frank Ciarliero, Vanderbilt, “The Market for Business Loans in a DSGE Framework”
1:30pm-2:30pm: Kathleen McKiernan, Vanderbilt “Modeling Informality: Implications for Taxes and Transfers"
2:30pm-2:45pm: Coffee Break
2:45pm-3:45pm: Stanislav Rabinovich, UNC Chapel Hill “What Do Worker Flows Say about the Wage Gains from Unemployment Insurance"
3:45pm: Adjourn