Macroeconomics Workshop

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Athens Macroeconomics Workshop September 17th and 18th 2025 Venue: Troias Building Athens University of Economics and Business, Troias 2, Athens. 

Day I: Wednesday 17th , September 2025 

9:30 – 10:00 

Registration and welcome 

10:00 – 11:30 

Chair: Claire Economidou (University of Piraues) 

George Nikolakoudis (Princeton University) “Quick Fixing: Near-Rationality in Consumption and Savings Behavior” (with Peter Andre, Joel Flynn, and Karthik Sastry) 

Ioannis Kospentaris(Athens University of Economics and Business) “How Much Work Experience Do You Need to Get Your First Job? The macroeconomic implications of bias against labor market entrants” (with Shisham Adhikari, Thanasis Geromichalos and Ates Gursoy) 

11:30 -12:00 

Coffee break 

12:00 – 13:00 

Keynote Talk: 

Chair: Plutarchos Sakellaris (Athens University of Economics and Business) 

Benjamin Born (University of Bonn) “A Temporary VAT Cut as Unconventional Fiscal Policy” 

13:00 – 14:00 

Lunch Break 

14:00 – 16:15 

Chair: Dimitris Papageorgiou (Bank of Greece) 

Xiaoshan Chen (University of Durham) Title: “Public debt and inflation in a monetary union” (with Spyros Lazarakis and Petros Varthalitis) 

Jonathan Wolff (Miami University) Title: “Debt, uncertainty and growth” 

Thomas Dengler (Deutsche Bundesbank, Berlin School of Economics, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin ) Title: “Labor Market Frictions and Unemployment Risk in a Monetary Union”

Day II: Thursday 18th, September 2025 

9:30 – 10:00 

Coffee 

10:00 – 11:30 

Chair: Anastasia Zervou-Velez (University of Texas San Antonio) 

Lichen Zhang (University of Hong Kong) Title: “Uncover "Gazelles": The Macroeconomic Implications of Uncertainty and Learning for Entrepreneurship” (with Han Gao) 

Özlem Kina (Bilkent University) Title: “Optimal taxation of Automation”  

11:30 -12:00 

Coffee break 

12:00 – 13:00 

Keynote Talk: 

Chair: George Economides (Athens University of Economics and Business) 

Ricardo Nunes (University of Surrey) “House Price Expectations and Inflation Expectations: Evidence from Survey Data” 

13:00 – 14:00 

Lunch Break 

Chair: Vanghelis Vassilatos (Athens University of Economics and Business) 

Spyridon Lazarakis (University of Lancaster) “Intangible capital and inequality” (with Petros Varthalitis) 

Philip Schnattinger (Bank of England) “The role of investment in the corporate debt–productivity relationship” (with Sudipto Karmakar (BoE), Marko Melolinna (FCA), and Isabelle Roland (BoE)) 

Farewell drinks 

End of workshop