Programme

Coffee & Registration 10:00 – 10:30 

Contributed Session #1       10:30 - 12:00

Title: Should I Stay (in School) or Should I Go (to Work)

Presenter:  Lee Tyrrell-Hendry (Bath)

Title: Voter polarization and extremism  

Presenter:  Tai-Wei Hu (Bristol)

Lunch and PhD Poster session         12:00 – 13:30

• “How do wage, welfare benefits and the hukou system affect internal migration in China: a dynamic analysis,” Zhuotong Liu (Bristol)

• “Skewness and Monetary Policy Decisions," Francesco Fusari (Surrey)

• “Optimal Wealth Tax with Evasion and Financial Frictions,” Ridhwaan Korimbocus (Bristol)

• “International Trade, Environment and Directed Technical Change,” Luigi Pivano (Bath)

Contributed Session #2                      13:30 – 15:00

Title: Firm Dynamics and Sectoral Reallocation

Presenter:  Julian Neira (Exeter)

Title: Optimal preemptive bailouts

Presenter:  Aliaksandr Zaretski (Surrey)

Coffee Break 15:00 – 15:30

Contributed Session #3             15:30 – 17:00 

Title: Endogenous frequencies and large shocks: price setting in Greece during the

 crisis

Presenter:  Huw Dixon (Cardiff) 

Title: Government debt management and inflation with real and nominal bonds

Presenter:  Vytautas Valaitis (Surrey) 

Coffee Break   17:00 – 17:15

Keynote Lecture   17:15 – 18:15 

Title: Interest Rate Changes and Economic Activity

Presenter:  José Víctor Ríos Rull (University of Pennsylvania)

Workshop Dinner 18:45