09:30–10:30
Consumption and House Prices in the Great Recession
Gianluca Violante (New York University)
Joint with Greg Kaplan and Kurt Mitman.
Discussant: Harald Uhlig (University of Chicago)
Conference program
Recent Developments in Macroeconomics
Co-sponsored with the Center for Studies in Economics and Finance, the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance, and University College London.
Friday, July 8, 2016
Morning Sessions
11:00–12:00
Does Vote Counting Count? Labor Productivity through the Lens of an Electoral Task
Saverio Simonelli (CSEF)
Joint with Ethan Ilzetzki.
Discussant: Alessandra Fogli (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
12:00–13:00
State-Dependent Pricing and the Paradox of Flexibility
Luca Dedola (ECB)
With Anton Nakov.
Discussant: John Leahy (University of Michigan)
Afternoon Sessions
14:30–15:30
Presentation
Morten Ravn (University College London)
Title not listed in the archived program.
Discussant: Pedro Teles (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
15:30–16:30
Optimal Inflation and the Sources of Productivity Growth
Klaus Adam (University of Mannheim)
Joint with Henning Weber.
Discussant: Helene Rey (London Business School)
Saturday, July 9, 2016
Morning Sessions
09:30–10:30
Price plans and the real effects of monetary policy
Fernando Alvarez (University of Chicago)
Joint with Francesco Lippi.
Discussant: Ralph Luetticke (University College London)
11:00–12:00
Understanding Oil Prices
Sergio Rebelo (Northwestern University)
Discussant: Wei Cui (University College London)
12:00–13:00
Sustainable Exchange Rates at the Zero Bound
Fabrizio Perri (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
With Manuel Amador, Javier Bianchi, and Luigi Bocola.
Discussant: Giancarlo Corsetti (Cambridge University)
Afternoon Sessions
14:30–15:30
Fiscal Policy and Debt Management with Incomplete Markets
Mike Golosov
With A. Bhandari, D. Evans and T. Sargent.
Discussant: Nicola Pavoni (Bocconi University)