Economic Policy after the Financial Crisis Workshop

Economic Policy after the Financial Crisis Workshop
European University Institute, Department of Economics
Florence, 14-15 November 2014
With the financial support of the EUI and the Fondation Banque de France
Friday 14 November 2014
Location:
European University Institute
Villa La Fonte
Via delle Fontanelle 10
50014 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI)
08:30-09:00
Coffee and Registration
09:00-11:00
Government Debt
Government Debt Management: The Long and Short of it
Elisa Faraglia, University of Cambridge
Discussant: Srečko Zimic, EUI
Banks, Government Bonds, and Default: What do the Data Say?
Nicola Gennaioli, Bocconi University
Discussant: Wojtek Paczos, EUI
11:00-11:30
Coffee break
11:30-13:30
Prices and Information
Government Intervention and Information Aggregation by Prices
Philip Bond, University of Washington
Discussant: Vincent Maurin, EUI
Risk-Taking, Rent-Seeking, and Investment when Financial Markets are Noisy
Christian Hellwig, Toulouse School of Economics
Discussant: Andrew Gimber, EUI
13:30-15:00
Lunch
15:00-18:00
Macro and Banking
Capital Requirements in a Quantitative Model of Banking Industry Dynamics
Dean Corbae, University of Wisconsin
Discussant: Dominik Thaler, EUI
Efficient Financial Crises
Ariel Zetlin-Jones, Carnegie-Mellon University
Discussant: Antoine Camous, EUI
Mortgage Rates, Household Balance Sheets, and the Real Economy
Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia Business School
Discussant: Anna Gibert, EUI
20:00
Dinner (Da Sergio, Borgo San Frediano 145/r, 50124 Firenze)
Saturday 15 November 2014
09:00-11:00
Labour Markets
Unemployment (Fears), Precautionary Savings, and Aggregate Demand
Wouter den Haan, London School of Economics
Discussant: Rana Sajedi, EUI
The Making Of A Great Contraction With A Liquidity Trap and A Jobless Recovery
Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé, Columbia University
Discussant: Luis Rojas, EUI
11:00-11:30
Coffee break
11:30-13:30
Inequality
The Wealthy Hand-to-Mouth
Greg Kaplan, Princeton University
Discussant: Kirill Shakhnov, EUI
Inequality, Recessions and Recoveries
Fabrizio Perri, Minneapolis FED
Discussant: Pavel Brendler, EUI
13:45
Lunch (Piatti e Fagotti, Via delle Fontanelle 3, 50133 San Domenico di Fiesole)
End of conference
(Paper Presentations 45 minutes, Discussion 10 minutes, General Discussion 5 minutes)
Contact persons:
Árpád Ábrahám, EUI
Gaetano Gaballo, Banque de France
Piero Gottardi, EUI
Ramon Marimon, EUI
Andrea Mattozzi, EUI
Evi Pappa, EUI
Administrative support:
Lucia Vigna (tel. +39 055 4685928)

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