I am attenting next week the CEPR European Summer Symposium in International Macroeconomics in Tarragona. I will present my lats paper with Paul Beaudry, “A Gains from Trade Perspective on Macroeconomic Fluctuations” (to be downloaded on then page current work of this site).
I will also discuss the paper “Wealth and Volatility” by Jonathan Heathcote (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and CEPR) and Fabrizio Perri (University of Minnesota and CEPR).
Nicolas Coeurdacier (Sciences Po) and myself are orgazing the 2nd Joint French Macro Workshop. The workshop will be held at the Banque de France (espace conférence), 20 rue du Colonel Driant, 75001 Paris.
The workshop is jointly organized by CREST/Polytechnique, the Paris School of Economics, SciencesPo and the Toulouse School of Economics; with the financial and logistic support of the Fondation Banque de France pour la recherche en économie
9h00-10h00 Roberto Billi (Sverige Riksbank), “Output Gaps and Robust Monetary Policy Rules”
10h00-11h00 Robert Kollmann (Ecares), “Banks, Fiscal Policy and the Financial Crisis”
11h00-11h30 Break
11h30-12h30 Tobias Broer (IIES), “Great Moderation or Great Mistake: Can rising confidence in low macro-risk explain the boom in asset prices?”
12h30-13h30 Lunch
13h30-14h30 Gilles Saint Paul (TSE), “The possibility of ideological bias in structural macroeconomic models”
14h30-15h30 Ana Maria Santacreu (Insead), “The Trade Comovement Puzzle and the Margins of International Trade”
15h30-16h00 Break
16h00-17h00 Gaetano Gaballo (Banque de France), “ Endogenous Signals and Multiplicity”
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