Welcome to the site
on the 2005 German Workshop on Macroeconomics. This site
provides information on how to find the location of the workshop (above),
the
programme, the original call for papers and the organizers (all below).
Attending
the workshop without presenting is very welcome. We would be grateful
to receive
prior information by email to Martina.Trnka(at)mail.uni-wuerzburg.de
with contact
details. This allows us to prepare the lecture hall, etc. Those who
wish can book
accommodation at http://www.hotel-franziskaner.de/,
where all speakers are
staying. Unfortunately, we are unable to cover any expenses for those
who do not present.
Friday |
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8:55 |
Klaus Wälde: Welcoming Participants |
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Session 1 |
Chair: Dirk Krüger (University of Frankfurt) |
9:00 to 10:00 |
Manuel Oechslin (University of Zürich): Creditor Protection and the Dynamics of the Distribution in Oligarchic Societies |
10:00 to 11:00 |
Winfried Koeniger (IZA and EUI Florence): A Dynamic Model of Market Insurance |
11:00 to 11:15 |
Coffee break |
11:15 to 12:15 |
Sagiri Kitao (New York University): Health Insurance and Tax Policy |
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12:30 to 14:00 |
Lunch break |
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Session 2 |
Chair: Klaus Wälde (University of Würzburg) |
14:00 to 15:00 |
Gernot J. Müller (University of Frankfurt): Asset Market Participation, Monetary Policy and the Effects of US Government Spending: What Accounts for the Declining Fiscal Multiplier? |
15:00 to 16:00 |
Thomas M. Steger (University of Zürich): Globalization, the Volatility of Intermediate Goods Prices and Economic Growth |
16:00 to 16:15 |
Coffee break |
16:15 to 17:15 |
Tetsugen Haruyama (Kobe University): R&D Policy in a Volatile Economy |
17:15 to 18:15 |
Olaf Posch (University of Hamburg): Natural Volatility, Welfare and Taxation |
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20:00 |
Conference dinner at Backöfele, Ursulinergasse 3 |
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Saturday |
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Session 3 |
Chair: Dirk Krüger (University of Frankfurt) |
9:00 to 10:00 |
Alok Kumar (University of Victoria): Taxes, Minimum Wage, and the Dispersion of Wages |
10:00 to 11:00 |
Andrey Launov (University of Göttingen): Search Equilibrium, Production Parameters and Social Returns to Education: Theory and Estimation |
11:00 to 11:15 |
Coffee break |
11:15 to 12:15 |
Matthias Weiss (University of Mannheim): Skill-Biased Technological Change: Is there Hope for the Unskilled? |
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12:30 to 14:00 |
Lunch break |
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Session 4 |
Chair: Klaus Wälde (University of Würzburg) |
14:00 to 15:00 |
Monique Ebell (Humboldt University, Berlin): The Missing Link: Product Market Regulation, Collective Bargaining and the European Unemployment Puzzle |
15:00 to 16:00 |
Marcus Hagedorn (University of Frankfurt): The Cyclical Behaviour of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies revisited |
16:00 to 16:15 |
Coffee break |
16:15 to 17:15 |
Leena Rudanko (University of Chicago): Labor Market Dynamics under Long Term Wage Contracting |
17:15 to 18:15 |
Alexandre Janiak (University of Brussels): Labor mobility and education policy: The tradeoff between specialization and reallocation cost |
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18:30 |
End of conference |
19:00 |
Informal get-together |
The Departments of Economics
of the University of Frankfurt and the University of Würzburg
are organising the 2005 Workshop in Macroeconomics. The conference
will take place this year in Würzburg on Friday, July 15 and
Saturday, July 16. All presentations are in plenary sessions
and time will be left for informal discussions. Participants
are strongly encouraged to stay both days. We primarily look
for applications from advanced PhD students close to completion
or young post-docs. |
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Dirk Krüger |
Klaus Wälde |
by April 17. The final programme will be sent around early
May. We will be able to cover accommodation and (up to some
limit) travel expenses for all speakers. 