TI organizes a one-day workshop for all fellows and PhD students with an interest in macroeconomics, international economics, trade, growth, monetary economics, globalization, economic geography, exchange rates, fiscal policy, (international) factor mobility, and technological progress.
Goals of this meeting are to offer a platform for TI fellows of all three TI universities to meet and get to know eachother and to present and discuss papers. Every participant is invited to present a paper; anybody presenting also discusses a paper.
PROGRAM
9.30 – 9.55: Registration
9.55 – 10.00: Welcome Franc Klaassen and Maarten Bosker
10.00 – 10.40
Presenter: Xuedong Wang (EUR), Consumption Risk Sharing and Exchange Rates with Endogenously Segmented Asset Markets
Discussant: Konstantinos Mavromatis (UvA)
10.40 – 11.20
Presenter: Bjoern Bruegemann (VU), Welfare Effects of Short-Time Compensation
Discussant: Xuedong Wang (EUR)
Break: 11.20 – 11.40
11.40 – 12.20
Presenter: Maarten Bosker (EUR), A Theory of Trade in a Global Production Network
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Discussant: Taylan Yenilmez (EUR)
12.20 – 13.00
Presenter: Taylan Yenilmez (EUR), Trade Liberalization, Industrial Productivity and Informality
Discussant: Julian Emami Namini (EUR)
Lunch: 13.00 – 14.00
14.00 – 14.40
Presenter: Bas Jacobs (EUR), Optimal Inefficient Production
Discussant: Bjoern Bruegemann (VU)
14.40 – 15.20
Presenter: Hendrik Vrijburg (EUR), Tax Rates as Strategic Substitutes
Discussant: Bas Jacobs
Break 15.20 – 15.40
15.40 – 16.20
Presenter: Sweder van Wijnbergen (UvA), Recessions after Systemic Banking Crises: Does it matter how Governments intervene?
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Discussant: Hendrik Vrijburg (EUR)
16.20 – 17.00
Presenter: Wei Li (EUR), The Information Content of Surprise Changes in the Fed Funds Futures Rate: Are They Monetary Shocks?
Discussant: Massimo Giuliodori (UvA)
Drinks: 17.00 – 18.00
