Birkbeck Centre for Applied Macroeconomics V: Annual Workshop
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 30 Russell Square
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The BCAM Annual Workshop facilitates discussions between academics, researchers, students and economists from universities, banks and corporations across the globe.
Since the first Workshop in 2014, we have welcomed many world-renowned speakers who have discussed research modelling issues and presented working papers on a variety of cutting-edge topics in macroeconomics.
2019 Programme:
9:00 – 9:30 Registration and Coffee (Room 102)
9:30 -10:10 Innovate to Lead or Innovate to Prevail: When do
Monopolistic Rents Induce Growth?
Yu Zeng, Queen Mary UL (with Piazza)
10:10-10:50 Public Employment in a Theory of Underemployment
Pedro Gomes, Birkbeck (with Garibaldi)
10:50-11:10 Coffee Break (Room 102)
11:10-11:50 A Rational Inattention Unemployment Trap
Martin Ellison (Oxford)
11:50-12:30 The Relationship between VAR and DSGE Models
when Agents have Imperfect Information
Stephen Wright, Birkbeck (with Levine, Pearlman)
12:30-14:00 Lunch and Poster Sessions (Room 102)
14:00-14:40 Time Variation in Lifecycle Consumption and Housing Wealth
Yunus Aksoy, Birkbeck (with Basso and St Aubyn)
14:40-15:20 Putting the Cycle Back into Business Cycle Analysis
Frank Portier, UCL (with Beaudry and Galizia)
15: 20-15:40 Coffee Break (Room 102)
15:40-16:20 Macroeconomic Impact of Euro
Ron Smith, Birkbeck (with Akhmedieva)
16-20-17:00 Rationalizing Trading Frequency and Returns:
Maybe Trading is Good for You
Russell Cooper, European University Institute (with Bonaparte and Sha)
17:00 – 19.00 Drinks
19:00 – 22.00 Dinner
Contact name:
Yunus Aksoy