Activities - Workshops · Macroeconomics Breakfast

October 10
Ricardo Nunes (UPF)
"Simple Monetary Rules under Fiscal Dominance" (joint with I. Yakadina and M. Kumhof)

 

October 17
Davide Debortoli (UPF)
"Disagreement and Commitment Issues in Optimal Fiscal Policy"

 

October 24
Antonio Mele (UPF)
"Recursive Contracts with Survival Concerns"

 

October 31
Stefano Gnocchi (UPF)
"Discretionary Fiscal Policy and Optimal Monetary Policy in a Currency Area"

 

November 7
Almut Balleer (Bonn)
"Reconsidering the Empirical Performance of Search-and-Matching Models"

 

November 14
Francesco Furlanetto (HEC Lausanne)
"Fiscal Shocks and the Consumption Response when Wages are Sticky"

 

November 21
José Antonio Dorich (UPF)
"Inflation and Relative Price Dispersion in the New Keynesian Framework"

 

November 28
Chiara Forlati (UPF)
"Optimal Monetary Policy in a Monetary Union: Does Fiscal Policy Coordination Matter?"

 

December 5
Arturo Ormeño (UPF)
"Time Varying Coefficients in DSGE Models: A First Attempt"

 

December 12
Sofia Bauducco (UPF)
"Optimal Fiscal Policy in an Economy with the Possibility of Default"

 

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January 9
Antonio Mele (UPF)
"Optimal Fiscal Pacts"
Martina Cecioni (UPF)
"Monetary Policy in an Open Currency Area: Does Heterogeneity Matter?"
Time: 16.00

 

January 16
Maarten Dossche (Ghent University, National Bank of Belgium and UPF)
"The Kinked Demand Curve and Price Rigidity: Evidence from Scanner Data" (joint with F. Heylen and D. Van den Poel)

 

February 28 (please note this is a Wednesday, same time and room)
Filippo Ferroni (UPF)
"The US Fiscal Policy. A Bayesian Estimation"

 

March 13
Vivien Lewis (Catholic University Leuven and UPF)
"Macroeconomic Fluctuations and Firm Entry: Theory and Evidence"

 

March 20
Maria Guecheva (UPF)
"Experience and Growth"
José Antonio Dorich (UPF)
"The Welfare Losses of Price Rigidities"
Time: 16.00-18.00

 

March 27
Davide Debortoli (UPF)
"Optimal Inflation with State Dependent Pricing"

 

April 10
Arturo Ormeño (UPF)
"Time Varying Parameters in DSGE Models"

 

April 17
Benedetto Molinari (UPF)
"The Role of Sticky Information in Inflation Dynamics: Estimates and Findings"

 

April 24
Eva Luethi (UPF)
"Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Two-country Model"

 

May 8
Antonio Mele (UPF)
"Optimal Fiscal Pacts"

 

May 15
Luca Sessa (UPF)
"The General Equilibrium Effects of Fiscal Policy: Estimates for the Euro Area" (joint with L. Forni and L. Monteforte)

 

May 22
Martina Cecioni (UPF)
"Firm Dynamics and Inflation"

 

May 29
José Antonio Dorich (UPF)
"The Welfare Losses of Price Rigidities"

 

June 5
Chiara Forlati (UPF)
"On the Costs and Benefits of a Monetary Union"

 

June 12
Alessia Campolmi (UPF)
"Oil Price Shocks: Demand vs Supply in a Two-Country Model"

 

June 19
Francesco Turino (UPF)
"The Role of Advertising in the Aggregate Economy" (joint with Benedetto Molinari)

 

June 26
Martin Seneca (UPF)
"Labour Market Asymmetries in a Monetary Union" (joint with T. M. Andersen