Vienna_Macro04

First Vienna Macro workshop on Current Topics in Macroeconomic Theory and Policy

Organized by

David Andolfatto (SFU)
Martin Gervais (UWO)
Gabe Lee (Regenburg and IHS)

October 1-2, 2004

Last Update: September 22, 2004

The goal of this two-day workshop is to cover a wide range of current issues in macroeconomic theory and policy. The workshop will provide an ideal venue for those interested in presenting preliminary ideas and receiving comments from an eclectic group of researchers. We're aiming to have an open enviroment where new ideas could be freely exchanged.

For accommodation, contact, how to get to the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna., etc,

Direction to Apartment Walch and IHS from the airport. (pdf)
Hotel Anatol is located two blocks east of IHS at Webgasse
Intercity Hotel is located one block north of IHS at Kaiserstrasse.

For other information, please contact Ms. Beatrix Pawelczak at
Department of Economics and Finance
Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS)
Stumpergasse 56 1060 Vienna, Austria Tel. +43-(0)1-59991-145 Fax. +43(0)1-59991-163 Email: pawelcza@ihs.ac.at

For comments and suggestions, please send us an email: gabriel.lee@wiwi.uni-regensburg.de or dandolfa@sfu.ca or gervais@uwo.ca

Here is the list of presenters (with paper/abstract), discussants and participants as of September 22, 2004

Program Schedule

* = Presenter

Harris Dellas (Bern)* and Fabrice Collard (CNRS-GREMAQ) "The new Keynesian model with imperfect information and learning" (pdf)

Discussant: David DeJong (Pittsburgh)

Francesco Lippi (Bank of Italy)* and Alessandro Seocchi (Bank of Italy) "The Demand for Currency at Low Interest Rates: Implications for Optimal Rate of Inflation" (pdf)

Discussant: Christian Haefke (UPF)

Paul Bergin (UC Davis)* and Reuven Glick (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco) "Endogenous Tradability and
Macroeconomic Implications" (pdf)

Discussant: Walter Fisher (IHS)

Wouter den Haan (LBS)*, Christian Haefke (UPF) and Gary Ramey (UCSD) "Shocks and Institutitions in Job Matching Model" (revised version will be up soon) (pdf)

Discussant: David Andolfatto (SFU)

Henry Siu (UBC) ""Time Consistent Monetary Policy when Price Rigidity is Endogenous" (abstract pdf)

Discussant: Andreas Schabert (Köln)

Ed Nosal (Fed Cleveland)* and Neil Wallace (Penn State) "A Model of (the Threat of) Counterfeiting" (pdf)

Discussant: Thor Koeppl (ECB and Queens)

Huberto Ennis (Fed Richmond) "Search, Money, and Inflation under Private Information"" (Previously titled "Search, Money, and Inflation When the Sellers Have the Pricing Power") (pdf)

Discussant: Cyril Monnet (ECB)

Oscar Jorda (UC Davis) "Estimation and Inference of Impulse Responses by Local Projections" (Previously titled "Model-Free Impulse Responses") (pdf)

Discussant: Jonas Fisher (Fed Chicago)

Chris Waller (Notre Dame)*, Aleks Berentsen (Basel) and Gabriele Camera (Purdue) "Money, Credit and Banking" (pdf)

Discussant: Allen Head (Queens)

Jim MacGee (UWO)* “Consumer Bankruptcy: A Fresh Start” Igor Livshits, (UWO) and Michele Tertilt (Stanford) (pdf)

Discussant: Gabe Lee (Regensburg, IHS)

Other Possible Participants/Discussants: Martin Gervais (UWO), Jamsheed Shorish (IHS), Emilio Espino (IHS), Thomas Hintermaier (IHS), Gerhard Sorger (Wien), Leo Kaas(?) (Konstanz), Christos Koulovatianos (Wien), Vally Koubi (Bern, ETHZ), Klaus Edenhoffer (Regensburg), Johann Scharler (Austrian National Bank), Johannes Gruber (Regensburg), Edi Hochreiter (Austrian National Bank), Klaus Ritzberger (IHS)