Schedule (preliminary)

Sessions, breakfasts, coffee breaks, and Saturday lunch take place at Convocation Hall, second floor of the University Hall building.
Friday lunch and dinner take place at the Great Hall of the Alumni Memorial Hall.

8:00 - 9:00: registration, breakfast, welcome.

9:00 - 10:30: Bank of Canada session.
Chair Marc-Andre Letendre.
Sponsored by the Bank of Canada.

∙  Saroj Bhattarai (Texas): "Welfare Cost of Inflation in Production Networks," with Afrouzi and Wu.
Discussant: Hafedh Bouakez (HEC).

∙  Gaston Chaumont (Rochester): "Accounting for Credibility: Fiscal-Monetary Interactions and the Credibility of Central Bank Mandates," with Bocola, Dovis and Kirpalani.
Discussant: Francisco Ruge-Murcia (McGill).

10:30 - 11:00: coffee break.

11:00 - 12:30: Productivity session.
Chair Pau Pujolas.
Sponsored by the Canadian Productivity Initiative and the Productivity Partnership.

∙  Jim MacGee (Western): "A Convergence of Minds? Global Migration and the Distribution of Income Within and Across Advanced Economies," with Rodrigue.
Discussant: Bettina Brueggemann (McMaster).

∙  Sergio Ocampo (Western): "Wealth Taxation: The Key to Unlocking Capital Gains," with Schjelderup and Zoutman.
Discussant: Juan Carlos Conesa (Stony Brook).

12:30 - 2:30: Lunch at the Great Hall of the Alumni Memorial Hall.

2:30 - 4:00: Development session.
Chair Zachary Mahone.

∙  Kevin Donovan (Yale): "Industrial Policy with Development Characteristics: Fertilizer Policy in Times of Crisis," with Brooks.
Discussant: Tasso Adamopoulos (York).

∙  Markus Poschke (McGill): "Skill Supply, Firm Size, and Economic Development," with Gottlieb and Tueting.
Discussant: Pedro Bento (Texas A&M).

4:00 - 4:30: coffee break.

4:30 - 6:00: Monopsony session.
Chair Gajen Raveendranathan.

∙  Barıs Kaymak (Cleveland Fed): "Robinson Meets Roy: Monopsony Power and Comparative Advantage," with Bils and Wu.
Discussant: Bryan Seegmiller (Northwestern).

∙  Yena Park (Seoul National University): "Optimal Redistribution Policy with Labor Market Monopsony," with Kim.
Discussant: Mahmood Haddara (Queen's).

7:00: Dinner at the Great Hall of the Alumni Memorial Hall.

 8:00 - 9:00: breakfast.

9:00 - 10:30: Labour session.
Chair Angela Zheng.

∙  Gorkem Bostanci  (UBC): "Changing Jobs to Fight Inflation: Labor Market Reactions to Inflationary Shocks," with Koru and Villalvazo.
Discussant: Etienne Lale (York).

∙  Amanda Michaud (Minneapolis Fed): "What Quits and Layoffs Reveal About the Business Cycle," with Ellieroth.
Discussant: Jacob Wright (Princeton/Queensland).

10:30 - 11:00: coffee break.

11:00 - 12:30: Money session.
Chair Bettina Brueggemann.

∙  Giacomo Candian (HEC): "Managing Expectations with Exchange Rate Poilicy," with De Leo and Gemmi.
Discussant: Miguel Santana (Bank of Canada).

∙  Till Gross (Carleton): "Gold as Money, Gold as Wealth: A Macroeconomic Model of the Gold Standard," with Pender.
Discussant: Amy Sun (Queen's).

12:30 - 1:45: Lunch at Convocation Hall (same venue as the workshop).

1:45 - 2:45: Plenary session by Martin Uribe (Columbia).

With an introduction by Alok Johri (McMaster).

2:45 - 3:00: short break.

3:00 - 3:45: Trade session.
Chair Joe Steinberg.

∙  Shafaat Khan (Syracuse): "Dynamic Optimal Tariffs with Trade Dynamics," with Alessandria, Ding, and Mix.
Discussant: Tim Kehoe (Minnesota).

3:45 - 4:15: coffee break.

4:15 - 5:45: Default session.
Chair Alok Johri.

∙  Francisco Roldan (IMF): "The Perils of Bilateral Sovereign Debt," with Sosa-Padilla.
Discussant: Michael Devereux (UBC).

∙  Carlos Esquivel (Rutgers): "Default Depressions."
Discussant: Juliana Gamboa Arvelaez (Princeton/Queensland).

5:45: adjourn.