Putting the Cycle Back In Business Cycle Analysis, Birkbeck Centre for Applied Macroeconomics Annual Workshop, Birkbeck College, June 14, 2019

I attended yesterday the annual workshop of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomics at Birkbeck College. I have presented my work with Paul Beaudry and Dana Galizia, “Putting the Cycle Back In Business Cycle Analysis”

The workshop organisers were Yunus Aksoy and Pedro Gomes, and the program was:

1. Innovate to Lead or Innovate to Prevail: When do Monopolistic Rents Induce Growth?, Yu Zeng, Queen Mary UL (with Piazza)
2. Public Employment in a Theory of Underemployment, Pedro Gomes, Birkbeck (with Garibaldi)
3. A Rational Inattention Unemployment Trap, Martin Ellison (Oxford)
4. The Relationship between VAR and DSGE Models when Agents have Imperfect Information, Stephen Wright, Birkbeck (with Levine, Pearlman)
5. Time Variation in Lifecycle Consumption and Housing Wealth, Yunus Aksoy, Birkbeck (with Basso and St Aubyn)
6. Putting the Cycle Back into Business Cycle Analysis, Franck Portier, UCL (with Beaudry and Galizia)
7. Macroeconomic Impact of Euro, Ron Smith, Birkbeck (with Akhmedieva)
8. Rationalizing Trading Frequency and Returns: Maybe Trading is Good for You, Russell Cooper, European University Institute (with Bonaparte and Sha)

Real Keynesian Models and Sticky Prices, 3rd Workshop on Macroeconomic and Financial Time Series Analysis, University of Lancaster, June 6-7, 2019

I am giving a keynote speech at the 3rd Workshop on Macroeconomic and Financial Time Series Analysis of the University of Lancaster. The other keynote speaker will be Gary Koop. The worskshop is organised by Philllip Renner, William Tayler and Roy Zilberman. 

I will present my work with Chenyu Hou and Paul Beaudry “Real Keynesian Models and Sticky Prices”. The slides of my presentation are available.

The program of the workshop is:

Thursday, 6th of June

12:50-13:00: WELCOME – Maurizio Zanardi (Head of Economics Department, Lancaster University Management School)

13:00-14:00: KEYNOTE – Franck Portier (University College London) – Real Keynesian Models and Sticky Prices (with Paul Beaudry)

14:30–15:00: Haroon Mumtaz (Queen Mary) – Changing impact of shocks : a time-varying proxy SVAR approach (with Katerina Petrova)

15:00–15:30: Alex Clymo (University of Essex) – Dispersion over the Business Cycle : Productivity versus Demand

15:30–16:00: Tom Holden (Deutsche Bundesbank) – The relative price of capital is increasing.

16:30–17:00: Roy Zilberman (Lancaster University) – Macroprudential Interventions in Liquidity Traps (with William Tayler)

17:00–17:30: Ferre De Graeve (KU Leuven) – Understanding International Long-Term Interest Rate Comovement (with Michael Chin, Thomai Filippeli and Konstantinos Theodoridis)

17:30–18:00: Agnes Kovacs (University of Manchester) – Temptation and Commitment: Understanding the Demand for Illiquidity

Friday, 7th of June

09:30-10:00: Andrea Colciago (De Nederlandsche Bank) – Competition and Inequality: Bewley and Aiyagari meet Bertrand and Cournot

10:00-10:30: Chris Redl (Bank of England) – Uncertainty Matters : Evidence from Close elections

10:30-11:00: Cristiano Cantore (Bank of England, University of Surrey and Centre for Macroeconomics) – Workers, Capitalists, and the Government: The Labor Share Response to Fiscal Spending Shocks (with Lukas Freund and Giovanni Melina)

11:30-12:30: KEYNOTE – Gary Koop (University of Strathclyde) – Regional Output Growth in the United Kingdom: More Timely and Higher Frequency Estimates, 1970-2017 (with Stuart McIntyre, James Mitchell and Aubrey Poon)

13:30-14:00: Federica Romei (Stockholm School of Economics) – Sovereign Default in a Monetary Union (with Sergio de Ferra)

14:00-14:30: Sergio de Ferra (Stockholm University) – External Imbalances, Gross Capital Flows and Sovereign Debt Crises

14:30-15:00: Mirko Abbritti (Universidad de Navarra) – Market Regulation, Cycles and Growth in a Monetary Union (with Sebastian Weber)

15:30-16:00: Maik Wolters (Friedrich Schiller University Jena) – Reliable Real-Time Output Gap Estimates Based on a Modified Hamilton Filter.

16:00-16:30: Serhiy Stepanchuk (University of Southamption) – Dynamic Perturbation

16:30-17:00: Yifan Li (University of Manchester) – Renewal Based Volatility Estimation (with Ingmar Nolte and Sandra Nolte)

Lecture at the Axel Leijonhufvud Trento Summer School, June 3-4, 2019

I am in Trento lecturing today and tomorrow at the Axel Leijonhufvud Trento Summer School. The school is organised by Martin Guzman (Columbia University and University of Buenos Aires) and Daniel Heymann, (University of Buenos Aires). 

I am lecturing on”Cycles in Business cycles”, and my slides are available (a bit too much for twice 90mn). See the webpage of the School for more information.