TI Complexity in Economics Seminars

Speaker(s)
Mike Woodford (Columbia University, United States) Paul Levine (University of Surrey, United Kingdom), Domenico Massaro (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano), and Felix Mauersberger (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Date
Monday, 26 October 2015
Location
Amsterdam

The workshop focus on behavioural aspects of macroeconomic modeling and policy. This workshop is part of the TI course Behavioural Macroeconomics.

Presentations:

Lustehouwer, Joep
Mavromatis, Kostas

Program:

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10.00-11.00 Paul Levine (University of Surrey) A New Keynesian Behavioural Model with Individual Rationality and Heterogeneous Agents
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.15 Kostas Mavromatis (University of Amsterdam) Presentation. Paper: Fiscal Consolidations and Heterogeneous Expectations
12.15-13.00 Joep Lustenhouwer (University of Amsterdam) Presentation. Paper: Inflation Targeting and Liquidity Traps under Endogenous Credibility 
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.45 Felix Mauersberger (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) Monetary Policy Rules in a Non-Rational World: a Macro Experiment
14.45-15.30 Domenico Massaro (Cattolica, Milan) Monetary and Fiscal Policy Design at the Zero-Lower-Bound: Evidence from
the Lab
15.30-16.00 Tea
16.00-17.30 Keynote: Mike Woodford (Columbia, United States) Are Low Interest Rates Deflationary? A Paradox of Perfect-Foresight Analysis
17.30-18.30 Drinks
19.30-22.30 Dinner (by invitation only)