Department of Economics

Harris Dellas

5th Hydra Workshop on Dynamic Macroeconomics - Santorini, 28-29 September 2007

Program

Program (PDF)

Thursday, September 27th

21:00

Dinner

Day 1 (Friday, September 28th)

09:00-09:10

09:10-10:10

Search and Rest Unemployment [download]

Robert Shimer* (University of Chicago) and Fernando Alvarez (University of Chicago)

Discussant:

Morten Ravn (European University Institute, CEPR)

10:10-10:30

Coffee break

10:30-11:30

Fragile Beliefs and the Price of Model Uncertainty [download]

Thomas Sargent* (New York University) and Lars Peter Hansen (University of Chicago)

Discussant:

Fabio Canova (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, AMeN) [download]

11:30-12:30

Sales and the Real Effects of Monetary Policy [download]

Patrick Kehoe* (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, NBER) and Virgiliu Midrigan (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, New York University)

Discussant:

Fabrice Collard (Université de Toulouse) [download]

12:45-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:00

The Role of Social Networks in Bank Lending

Luigi Guiso* (European University Institute, Ente 'Luigi Einaudi')

Discussant:

Michael Haliassos (University of Frankfurt) [download]

15:00-16:00

Nominal Debt as a Burden on Monetary Policy [download]

Ramon Marimon* (European University Institute, Universitat Pompeu Fabra-CREi, CEPR, NBER), Javier Díaz-Giménez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Giorgia Giovanetti (Università die Firenze) and Pedro Teles (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, CEPR)

Discussant:

Luca Dedola (European Central Bank) [download]

21:00

Dinner

Day 2 (Saturday, September 29th)

10:00-11:00

The Role of Debt and Equity Finance over the Business Cycle [download]

Wouter den Haan* (University of Amsterdam) and Francisco Covas (Bank of Canada)

Discussant:

Fiorella di Fiore (European Central Bank) [download]

11:00-11:30

Coffee break

11:30-12:30

Home Bias in Goods and Assets [download]

Behzad Diba* (Georgetown University), Fabrice Collard (University of Toulouse), Harris Dellas (University of Bern) and Alan Stockman (University of Rochester)

Discussant:

Robert Kollmann (Free University of Brussels)

12:30-13:30

Sovereign Risk and Secondary Markets [download]

Jaume Venturea* (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Fernando Broner (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Alberto Martin (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Discussant:

Apostolis Philippopoulos (AUEB) [download]

13:30-14:45

Lunch

21:00

Dinner

Harris Dellas (University of Bern)

Plutarchos Sakellaris (AUEB, IMOP & Ministry of Economy and Finance)

Frank Smets (European Central Bank)

* = presenting