Thursday, 15 June 2017
19.30 Reception and Dinner – Hotel Il Melograno
Friday, 16 June 2017
9.15 – 9.30 Welcome address
Morning Session – Chair: Saverio Simonelli (CSEF)
9.30 – 10.30 Larry Christiano (Northwestern University)
“Is there a Uniqueness Problem in the New Keynesian Model?”
Discussant: Klaus Adam (Mannheim University)
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.00 Claudio Michelacci (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance)
“Aggregate Demand Networks” (joint with Luigi Paciello and Andrea Pozzi)
Discussant: Luigi Iovino (Bocconi University)
12.00 – 13.00 Arlene Wong (FRB of Minneapolis and Princeton)
“Trading down and the business cycle” (joint with Nir Jaimovich and Sergio Rebelo)
Discussant: Pontus Rendahl (Cambridge University)
13.00- 14.30 Lunch
Afternoon Session – Chair: Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University)
14.30 – 15.30 Harald Uhlig (University of Chicago)
“The Macroeconomic Impact of Money Market Disruptions” (joint with Fiorella de Fiore and Marie Hoerova)
Discussant: Saverio Simonelli (CSEF)
15.30 – 16.30 Pierre Yared (Columbia Business School)
“Fiscal Rules and Discretion in a World Economy” (joint with Marina Halac)
Discussant: Facundo Piguillem (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance)
20.00 Reception and Dinner (by invitations only)
Saturday, 17 June 2017
Morning Session – Chair: Klaus Adam (University of Mannheim)
9.30 – 10.30 Morten Ravn (University College London)
“Macroeconomic Fluctuations with HANK & SAM: an Analytical Approach” (joint with Vincent Sterk)
Discussant: Xavier Ragot (Sciencespo)
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.00 Giancarlo Corsetti (University of Cambridge)
“The Missing Internal Devaluation Puzzle: Nominal and Real Adjustment to the Great Recession within the US” (joint with Luca Dedola and Riccardo Trezzi)
Discussant: Juan Passadore (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance)
12.00 – 13.00 Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University)
“Monetary Policy and the Predictability of Nominal Exchange Rates” (joint with Benjamin K. Johannsen and Sergio Rebelo)
Discussant: Gaetano Gaballo (European Central Bank)
13.00- 14.30 Lunch
Afternoon Session – Chair: Morten Ravn (University College London)
14.30 – 15.30 Giorgio Primiceri (Northwestern University)
“The Mortgage Rate Conundrum“ (joint with A. Justiniano and A Tambalotti)
Discussant: Ethan Ilzetzki (London School of Economics)
Organizers:
Klaus Adam (Mannheim University)
Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University)
Luigi Paciello (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance)
Morten Ravn (University College London)
Saverio Simonelli (University of Naples Federico II and CSEF)