2019 – 7th edition
THURSDAY June 6 2019 | |||||
| 08.30 - 08.50 | Registration + coffee | ||||
| 08.50 - 09.00 | Welcome remarks by Gert Peersman | ||||
| FIRST SESSION | Chair: Freddy Heylen | ||||
| 09.00 - 09.50 | What Drives Pension Reform Measures in OECD? Ward Romp, University of Amsterdam; R. Beetsma, F. Klaassen, R. van Maurik | ||||
| 09.50- 10.40 | The Link Between Labor Cost and Price Inflation in the Euro Area Isabelle Vansteenkiste, European Central Bank; E. Bobeica, M. Ciccarelli | ||||
| 10.40 - 12.10 | Poster session I | ||||
| Coffee break | |||||
| SECOND SESSION | Chair: Gerdie Everaert | ||||
| 12.10 - 13.00 | Dynamic Effects of Persistent Shocks Mario Alloza, Bank of Spain; J. Conzalo, C. Sanz | ||||
| 13.00- 14.00 | Lunch | ||||
| THIRD SESSION | Chair: Selien De Schryder | ||||
| 14.00 - 14.50 | Monetary Policy with Judgment Simone Manganelli, European Central Bank; P. Gelain | ||||
| 14.50 - 15.40 | Raising the Target: How Much Extra Room Does it Really Give? Jean-Paul L'Huillier, Brandeis University; R. Schoenle | ||||
| 15.40 - 17.10 | Poster session II | ||||
| Coffee break | |||||
| FOURTH SESSION | Chair: Marco Onofri | ||||
| 17.10 - 18.00 | Agricultural Productivity Shock and Poverty in India: the Short and Long-Term Effects of Monsoon Rainfall Matthias S. Hertweck; Deutsche Bundesbank ; B. Brey | ||||
| 20.00 | Conference Dinner (Brasserie HA’, Kouter 29, 9000 Ghent) | ||||
FRIDAY June 7 2019 | |||||
| 08.30 – 09.00 | Coffee | ||||
| FIFTH SESSION | Chair: Ewoud Quaghebeur | ||||
| 09.00 - 09.50 | When Creativity Strikes: News Shocks and Business Cycle Fluctutations Sinem Haciouğlu Hoke, Bank of England/ Data Analytics for Finance and Macro; K. Bluwestein, S. Miranda-Agrippino | ||||
| 09.50 - 10.40 | Is There News in Inventories? Christoph Görtz, University of Birmingham; C. Gunn, T. Lubik | ||||
| 10.40 - 11.00 | Coffee break | ||||
| SIXTH SESSION | Chair: Gert Peersman | ||||
| 11.00 - 11.50 | Identifying VARs From Scarce Narrative Information. Dynamic Effects of US Macroprudential Policies Gerhard Rünstler, European Central Bank; K.Budnik | ||||
| 11.50 - 12.40 | Inference in Bayesian Proxy-SVARs Jonas E. Arias, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia; J.F. Rubio-Ramirez, D. Waggoner | ||||
| 12.40 - 14.00 | Closing lunch | ||||
Poster session I | |||||
| Roland Winkler - University of Antwerp; The Government Spending Multiplier at the Zero Lower Bound: International Evidence from Historical Data | |||||
| Jolan Mohimont - National Bank of Belgium; Empirical Framework for Macroeconomic Policies in Emerging Markets | |||||
| Frederic Opitz - Ghent University; Macroprudential tools and the credit cycle: evidence on their effectiveness in the European Union | |||||
| Wouter Van der Veken - Ghent University; How do US households deal with food price fluctuations? | |||||
| Olivier Hubert - European Central Bank; Cross-Border Risks in Eurozone Sovereign Bond Markets | |||||
| Jacob Hartwig - European Central Bank; Expropriation of the European saver? An earnings-based perspective | |||||
| Stef De Visscher - Ghent University; A time-varying impact of workforce demographics on TFP | |||||
| Thomas Lebbe - Ghent University; Leaving early? Rewarding delayed retirement | |||||
| Martin Ignacio Harding - DIW, German Institute for Economic Research; Risk and state-dependent Financial Frictions | |||||
Poster session II | |||||
| Dennis Bonam - De Nederlandsche Bank; The effects of fiscal policy at the effective lower bound | |||||
| Massimiliano Tancioni - Sapienza University of Rome; Sources of output variability and risk absorption channels in the US and the euro area | |||||
| Marco Onofri - Ghent University; On the effectiveness of Negative Interest Rates: a search for the yield transmission mechanism | |||||
| Joris Wauters - National Bank of Belgium & Ghent University; Is euro area lowflation here to stay? Insights from a time-varying parameter model with survey data | |||||
| Diego Kaenzig - London Business School; The macroeconomic effects of oil supply shocks: new evidence from OPEC announcements | |||||
| Nam Vu - Swansea University; Quality of Goods and Price Setting | |||||
| Andrzej Szczepaniak - Ghent University; The Forward Guidance Puzzle and Exchange Rates Dynamics: Evidence from High-Frequency Identification | |||||
| Yasmine Meerschaut - Ghent University; The impact of global and local temperature shocks on economic growth | |||||
| Martin Iseringhausen - Ghent University; Financial Market Interdependence and Contagion: A Factor Approach with Composite Loadings | |||||