Download the PDF version

2021 – 8th edition

THURSDAY May 20 2021
13.50 - 14.00Welcome remarks
FIRST SESSION
14.00 - 14.50 What are the likely macroeconomic effects of the EU recovery plan?
Fabio Canova, Norwegian Business School, CAMP, and CEPR; Evi Pappa
14.50- 15.40BIG G
Raphael Schoenle, Brandeis University, Cleveland Fed, and CEPR
; Lydia Cox, Gernot J. Müller, Ernesto Pasten, Michael Weber
15.40 - 15.55Break
SECOND SESSION
15.55 - 16.45Motivating Banks to Lend? Credit Spillover Effects of the Main Street Lending Program
Camelia Minoiu, Federal Reserve Board; Rebecca Zarutskie, Andrei Zlate
16.45 - 17.35Corporate Debt Maturity Matters For Monetary Policy
Matthias Meier, University of Mannheim; Joachim Jungherr, Timo Reinelt, Immo Schott
17.35 - 17.50Break
THIRD SESSION
17.50 - 18.40Risk-Taking and Monetary Policy Transmission: Evidence from Loans to SMEs and Large Firms
Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, University of Maryland, NBER and CEPR; Cecilia Caglio,R. Matthew Darst
FRIDAY May 21 2021
FOURTH SESSION
13.00 - 13.50The Inflation Rate Disconnect Puzzle: On the International Component of Trend Inflation and the Flattening of the Phillips Curve
Guido Ascari, University of Oxford and University of Pavia; Luca Fosso
13.50 - 14.40The economic consequences of putting a price on carbon
Diego R. Känzig, London Business School
14.40 - 15.30PhD Poster session
FIFTH SESSION
15.30 - 16.20The Economic Impact of Recession Announcements
Martin Ellison, University of Oxford and CEPR; Andrew C. Eggers, Sang Seok Lee
16.20 - 17.10Bayesian Estimation of Epidemiological Models: Methods, Causality, and Policy Trade-Offs
Juan F. Rubio-Ramírez, Emory University and Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta; Jonas E. Arias, Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Minchul Shin
17.10 - 17.25Break
SIXTH SESSION
17.25 - 18.15Social interactions in pandemics
Ester Faia, Goethe University ; FederalLaura Alfaro, Nora Lamdersdorf, Farzad Saidi
18.15 - 18.20Closing remarks

PhD posters:

Macroeconomic risks across the globe due to the Spanish flu, Wouter Van der Veken

The state-dependent effects of government expenditure on inflation: an empirical analysis for the euro area, Frederic Opitz

The impact of weather on local food prices, Yasmine Meerschaut

Shouldering risk during Covid-19: monetary policy and credit guarantees, Marco Onofri

The Great Macroeconomic News Purge, Andrzej Szczepaniak

Using intensity-based indices to measure macroprudential effectiveness, Lara Coulier