Post-Crisis Macroeconomics Workshop, University of Edinburgh, Tuesday 17th October, 2017

I am attending the Post-Crisis Macroeconomics Workshop organized at University of Edinburgh on Tuesday 17th October, 2017. I will present some new work with Paul Beaudry “Real Keynesian Models and Sticky Prices”

According to the MacCaLM page of the workshop,

On Tuesday 17th October the project will host a Post-Crisis Marcoeconomics Workshop in Edinburgh. We welcome speakers:

• Paul Beaudry (University of Oxford) ‘The Business Cycle and the Financial Cycle: Properties and Links’
• David Romer (University of California, Berkeley) ‘New Evidence of the Aftermath of Financial Crises in Advanced Countries’
• Franck Portier (UCL) ‘Real Keynesian Models and Sticky prices’
• John Moore (University of Edinburgh & LSE) ‘Leverage Stacks and the Financial System’

MacCaLM has teamed up the David Hume Institute to host a public lecture in the evening with Christina Romer presenting her paper ‘Why Some Times Really Are Different: Macroeconomic Policy and the Aftermath of Financial Crises’.

Quick summary of what happened between February and October 2017 (Part 1)

Lot of things happened since I last posted on that site. Most importantly, I am now Professor of Economics at University College London.

Below is a brief summary of my activities since my February seminar in Berlin:

• March 29th, 2017 : I presented my research with Paul Beaudry and Dana Galizia “Putting the Cycle Back into Business Cycle Analysis” at the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali (LUISS),in Rome, and I spent the week visiting the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF)
• May 8th and 9th 2017: I participated to the European University Institute (EUI) Research Council in Florence.
• May 19th and 20th 2017: I attended the conference “The New Macroeconomics of Aggregate Fluctuations and Stabilisation Policy” organized at UCL by Morten Ravn (University College London), Paulo Surico (London Business School) and Gianluca Violante (Princeton University). I discussed Jordi Gali’s  “Monetary Policy and Bubbles in a New Keynesian Model with Overlapping Generations”. My discussion can be found here.
• May 25th and 26th: I attended the  2017 Bristol Macroeconomics Workshop (BMW), and presented “Putting the Cycle Back into Business Cycle Analysis”. This great workshop was organized by Sekyu Choi, Alireza Sepahsalari and Pawel Doligalski. Presenters were Arpad Abraham (European University Institute), Giulio Fella (Queen Mary University of London), Marek Kapicka (CERGE-EI), Sarolta Laczo (University of Surrey), Serdar Ozkan (University of Toronto), Julien Prat (CREST), Víctor Ríos-Rull (University of Pennsylvania), Dominik Sachs (European University Institute) and Edouard Schaal (NYU and UPF).
• June 7th and 8th 2017: I attended the Bank of Canada -IGIER Conference at Bocconi, Milano “New Directions in Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy“. I discussed  “Fiscal Policy, Sovereign Risk and Unemployment” by Javier Bianchi (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), Pablo Ottonello (University of Michigan) and Ignacio Presno (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System). My discussion can be found here.