Thursday |
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Informal dinner (Osteria Pizzeria AL PEPOSO, Via Fra' Jacopo Passavanti 2/r, 50133 Firenze) |
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Friday |
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8:55 |
Salvador Ortigueira (European University Institute): Welcoming Participants |
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Session 1 |
Chair: Salvador Ortigueira (European University Institute) |
9:00 to 10:00 |
Fabio Arico (University of Warwick): Structural Unemployment in a Matching Model with Endogenous Skill-acquisition and Technological Diffusion |
10:00 to 11:00 |
Astrid Oline Ervik (University of Cambridge): Skills Gaps in Occupations and Sectors with High and Risky Returns |
11:00 to 11:15 |
Coffee break |
11:15 to 12:15 |
Renato Faccini (European University Institute): Unemployment and Within-Group Wage Inequality in Italy and the US: Can Information explain the Trade-Off? |
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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 |
Julia Lendvai (University of Namur): Explaining the Asset Pricing Puzzles in the RBC framework: The Prospect Theory approach |
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15:00 to 16:00 |
Christian Bayer (University of Dortmund): Fixed Costs of Capital Adjustment in a Two Country Real Business Cycle Model |
16:00 to 16:15 |
Coffee break |
16:15 to 17:15 |
Augustín Pérez (Université catholique de Louvain): Capital accumulation and non-renewable energy resources: a Special Functions case |
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17:15 to 18:15 |
Almut Balleer (Bonn Graduate School of Economics): New Evidence, Old Puzzles: Technology Shocks and Labor Market Dynamics |
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20:00 |
Conference dinner |
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Saturday |
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Session 3 |
Chair: Tom Krebs (University of Mannheim) |
9:00 to 10:00 |
Fang Yao (Humboldt University Berlin): Lumpy Job Turnover and Business Cycles |
10:00 to 11:00 |
Miguel A. Iraola (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): Technological Waves in the Stock Market |
Coffee break |
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11:15 to 12:15 |
Stefan Niemann (Bonn Graduate School of Economics): Inflation, Investment Composition and Total Factor Productivity |
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12:30 to 14:00 |
Lunch break |
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Session 4 |
Chair: Dirk Krüger (University of Pennsylvania) |
14:00 to 15:00 |
Juan Sánchez (University of Rochester): Unemployment Insurance in an Economy with a Hidden Labor Market |
15:00 to 16:00 |
Yili Chien (Purdue University): Why Tax Capital? |
16:00 to 16:15 |
Coffee break |
16:15 to 17:15 |
Greg Kaplan (New York University): Inequality and the Life Cycle |
17:15 to 18:15 |
Christoph Winter (European University Institute): Explaining Earnings Persistence: Does College Education Matter? |
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18:30 |
End of conference |
19:00 |
Informal get-together |
The Department of Economics of the European University Institute in Florence and the Departments of Economics of the Universities of Mannheim,
Pennsylvania and Würzburg are organising the European Workshop in Macroeconomics. The conference will take place in Florence, Italy on Friday,
June 22 and Saturday, June 23. 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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This workshop is sponsored by way more than 75% by the
European University Institute
at Florence. Other contributors are the Department of Economics of the University of
Würzburg,
Mannheim and
Pennsylvania
. We are grateful to these units for their financial and non-financial support.
All speakers and organizers stay in the Hostel 7 Santi, Viale dei Mille 11, Florence (Phone: +39 055 5048452, Fax: +39 055 5057085, Email: info@7santi.com, Internet: http://www.7santi.com/). A reservation was made for all speakers for 2 nights from Thursday 21st to Saturday 23rd. These two nights are paid by the EUI. Anybody arriving earlier or leaving later is asked to contact the hotel directly and make the necessary changes. Unfortunately, the EUI can not pay for more than 2 nights.
by March 9. The final
programme will be sent around in April. We will be able to cover accommodation and (up to some limit) travel expenses for all speakers. 