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2023 – 10th edition

TUESDAY May 23 2023
08.30 - 08.50Registration
08.50 - 09.00Welcome remarks
FIRST SESSION
09.00 - 09.50 Followers or Ignorants? Inflation Forecasts and Price Setting Behavior of Firms
Davud Rostam-Afschar, University of Mannheim
; P. Doerrenberg, F. Eble, C. Karlsson, B. Tödtmann, and J. Voget
09.50 - 10.40Growth Expectations and the Dynamics of Firm Entry
Enisse Kharroubi, Bank for International Settlements

10.40 - 11.00Coffee break
SECOND SESSION
11.00 - 11.50Commodity Price Shocks and Global Cycles: Monetary Policy Matters
Gert Peersman, Ghent University
; E. Castelnuovo, and L. Mori
11.50 - 12.15 Selected PhD presentation - Public Credit and the Financial Cycle
Victor Degorce, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
12.15 - 14.15Lunch + Poster session I
THIRD SESSION
14.15 - 15.05The Monetary Dynamics of Hyperinflation Reconsidered
Luca Benati, University of Bern
15.05 - 15.30 Selected PhD presentation - The Heterogeneous Effects of Carbon Policies: Macro and Micro Evidence
Brendan Berthold, University of Lausanne; A. Cesa-Bianchi, F. Di Pace, and A. Haberis
15.30 - 17.00Coffee break + Poster session II
FOURTH SESSION
17.00 - 17.50Wealth Inequality in the US: The Role of Heterogeneous Returns
Inês Xavier, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
20.00Conference dinner (Brasserie HA', Kouter 29, 9000 Ghent
WEDNESDAY May 24 2023
08.30 - 09.00Coffee
FIFTH SESSION
09.00 - 09.50Monetary Policy Transmission with Adjustable and Fixed Rate Mortgages: The Role of Credit Supply
Fatih Altunok, Central Bank of Turkey; Y. Arslan, and S. Ongena
09.50 - 10.15 Selected PhD presentation - Relationship Lending and Monetary Policy Pass-Through
Pierre Dubuis, University of Zurich; J. Cao, and K. Liaudinskas
10.15 - 10.35Coffee break
SIXTH SESSION
10.35 - 11.25The Ends of 27 Big Depressions
Martin Ellison, University of Oxford; S.S. Lee, and K. Hjortshøj O’Rourke
11.25 - 12.15Why Are the Wealthiest So Wealthy? A Longitudinal Empirical Investigation
Serdar Ozkan, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; E. Halvorsen, J. Hubmer, and S. Salgado
12.15 - 14.00Closing lunch
Posters
Session 1
Angelo Luisi - Identifying the Role of Expectations in Real Estate Markets around the Globe
Arthur Apostel - A One-off Wealth Tax for Belgium
Arthur Jacobs - Task-based Automation and Capitalist-worker Wealth Distribution
Christophe Van Langenhove - US Wealth Inequality in a Macroeconomic Agent-Based Model
Julia Jesionek - The Impact of Financing Government Spending with Labor or Consumption Tax
Pierre-Guillaume Méon - Influencing Public Trust in Central Banks: Identifying Who is Open to New Information
Pieter Van Rymenant - Welfare Effects in Computational OLG Models: a Normative Analysis of Estate Tax Reforms
Tobias König - The Investment Channel of Monetary Policy: Evidence from Norway
Tobias Verlaeckt - The Effects of Borrower-based Macroprudential Tools on Housing Affordability in Belgium
Session 2
Alec Van Boven - The Optimal Monetary-Fiscal Response to an Energy Crisis with Heterogeneous Households in Europe
Deasy Ariyanti - Countercyclical Capital Buffer and Bank Risk-Taking Behaviour
Flavio Squartini - Exploring the Heterogeneous Consumption Response to Energy Price (Tax) Changes
Joris Wauters - Heterogeneous Household Responses to Energy Price Shocks
Naoki Yago - Intervening against the Fed
Théodore Renault - Heterogeneous Wage Phillips Curves: A Matter of Skills?
Thomas Lebbe - Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Climate OLG model with Heterogeneous Abilities
Yasmine Meerschaut - Heterogeneity in Adaptation to Climate Change in U.S. Agriculture