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Programme 2008
Conference venue: Yudowitz Seminar Room, Wolfson Medical School Building, University of Glasgow (C8 on the campus map)| Thursday, 26 June
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| 20:00 |
Informal get-together (Antipasti, 337 Byres Road) |
| Friday, 27 June | |
| 08:55 | Welcome Klaus Wälde (University of Glasgow) |
| Session 1 | Chair: Dirk Krüger (University of Pennsylvania) |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Kamila Vetechova (Georgetown University, Washington, DC) Fertility Choice in a Lifecycle Model with Idiosyncratic Uninsurable Earnings Risk |
| 10:00 - 11:00 |
Raffaele Rossi (University of Glasgow) |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Break (Atrium) |
| 11:15 - 12:15 | Odile Poulsen (University of East Anglia) and Gert Svendsen (University of Aarhus) |
| 12:30 - 13:45 | Lunch (Atrium) |
| Session 2 | Chair: Monika Merz (University of Bonn) |
| 13:45 - 14:45 | Chiara Binelli (University College London and Institute for Fiscal Studies) Wage Inequality and Education Choices in Latin America: A General Equilibrium Approach |
| 14:45 - 15:45 | Mai Dao (Columbia University) International Spillover of Labor Market Reforms |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Break (Atrium) |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Luca Paolo Merlino (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Segmentation in a Labour Market with Two-Sided Heterogeneity: Directed vs. Undirected Search |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Marc Blatter, Samuel Muehlemann and Samuel Schenker (University of Bern) The Costs of Hiring Skilled Workers |
| 19:30 | Conference dinner (Cul de Sac, Ashton Lane) |
| Saturday, 28 June | |
| Session 3 | Chair: Tom Krebs (University of Mannheim) |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Maria Teresa Punzi (Boston College) Housing Market and Current Account Imbalances in the International Economy |
| 10:00 - 11:00 |
José-Miguel Cardoso-Costa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) Optimal Taxation with Financial Instruments in a Small Open Economy |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Break (Atrium) |
| 11:15 - 12:15 | Pavel Sevcik (University of Montreal) |
| 12:30 - 13:45 | Lunch (Atrium) |
| Session 4 | Chair: Wouter Denhaan (University of Amsterdam) |
| 13:45 - 14:45 | Jin Cao (Munich Graduate School of Economics) and Gerhard Illing (University of Munich) Liquidity Shortages and Monetary Policy |
| 14:45 - 15:45 | Antonio Mele (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) Repeated Moral Hazard and Recursive Lagrangeans |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Break (Atrium) |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Filippo Taddei (Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy) Liquidity and Economic Fluctuations |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Alexander Kriwoluzky and Christian Stoltenberg (Humboldt University Berlin) Optimal Policy Under Model Uncertainty: A Structural-Bayesian Estimation Approach |
| 18:00 - 18:10 |
Concluding remarks Salvador Ortigueira (EUI) |
| 19:00 |
Informal get-together (Brel, 39 Ashton Lane) |