Macroeconomics 

Date: 30-31 May, 2024

May 30th

8:45-9:00 Coffee and welcome

9:00-9:45 Diego Perez 

9:45-10:30 Sasha Indarte - Bad News Bankers: Underwriter Reputation and Contagion in Pre-1914 Sovereign Debt Markets

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-11:45 Joris Tielens - Cost-Price Dynamics with State-Dependent Pricing

11:45-12:30 Wataru Miyamoto - The Macroeconomic Effects of Cash Transfers: Evidence from Brazil

12:30-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-14:45 Luca Dedola - Tax Thy Neighbor: The Pass-through of Local Corporate Taxes into Consumer Prices across German Regions

14:45-15:30 Nathan Zorzi - Durables and Size-Dependence in the Marginal Propensity to Spend

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-16:45 Matthias Meier - Identification of Systematic Monetary Policy

16:45- 17:30 Denis Gorea - House Price Responses to Monetary Policy Surprises: Evidence from the U.S. Listings Data

19:00 Conference dinner

May 31st

8:45-9:00 Coffee and welcome

9:00-9:45 Efi Adamopoulou - The Long-Term Earnings’ Effects of a Credit Market Disruption

9:45-10:30 Daria Finocchiaro - A traffic jam theory of growth

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-11:45 Andres Drenik - Illiquid Lemon Markets and the Macroeconomy

11:45-12:30 Karl Walentin - Dynamic Macroeconomic Implications of Immigration

12:30-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-14:45 Emil Verner

Organizers:Ferre de Graeve, Michal Kobielarz and Christian Pröbsting

Econometrics (no call for papers!)

Date: 3-4 June, 2024

Confirmed speakers: Jaap Abbring (Tilburg University), Dmitry Arkhangelsky (CEMFI), Kirill Borusyak (University of California, Berkeley), Ben Deaner (University College London) , Xavier D'Haultfoeuille (CREST), Juan Carlos Escanciano (Universidad Carlos III Madrid), Sukjin Han (University of Bristol), Koen Jochmans (Toulouse School of Economics), Toru Kitagawa (Brown University), Arthur Lewbel (Boston College), Claudia Noack (University of Bonn), Frank Windmeijer (University of Oxford)

Organizers: Christophe Bruneel-Zupanc, Geert Dhaene and Jad Beyhum

Migration and Family Economics

Date: 4-5 June, 2024

Confirmed speakers: Joseph-Simon Görlach (Bocconi), Joan Monras (Federal Reserve Bank), Joanna Venator (Boston College), Paula Gobbi (ULB), Gabriel Ulyssea (University College London)

Organizers: Laurens Cherchye, Edoardo Ciscato, Frederic Vermeulen and Hannah Zillessen

Economic Theory

Date: 5-6 June, 2024

5th June

09:00-10:30 Contributed Session 1: Organizations Andrés Espitia (University of Bonn): "Confidence and organizations"

Andy Choi (Bocconi University): "I'll tell you tomorrow: Committing to future commitments"

10:30-11:00 Coffee

11:00-12:30 Invited Session 1: Information Economics Ina Taneva (University of Edinburgh): "Organized information transmission"

Francesco Squintani (University of Warwick): "Persuasion in networks"

12:30-13:45 Lunch

13:45-16:00 Contributed Session 2: IO 1

José-Luis Moraga-Gonzalez (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): "Price equilibrium with selling constraints"

Lijun Pan (Nanjing University): "Horizontal merger analysis with endogenous product range choice"

Emanuele Tarantino (LUISS University and EIEF): " Market segmentation, information sale, and information foreclosure"

16:00-16:30 Coffee

16:30-18:00 Contributed Session 3: Incentives Talia Bar (University of Connecticut): "After prizes for innovation: A new approach to incentivizing inventors"

Amirreza Ahmadzadeh (Toulouse School of Economics): "Mechanism design with costly state verification"

6th June

09:00-10:30 Contributed Session 4: IO 2

Armin Schmutzler (University of Zurich): "A theory of recommendations"

Elia Sartori (University of Naples): "Interim Information and Seller’s Revenue in Standard Auctions"

10:30-11:00 Coffee

11:00-12:30 Invited Session 2: Mechanism design and AI Vasiliki Skreta (University of Texas at Austin): "Score based mechanism design"

Balazs Szentes (University of Honk Kong): "Natural selection of artificial intelligence"

12:30-13:45 Lunch

Organizers:Florian Schuett and Sareh Vosooghi

Public Economics

The economics and ethics of obnoxious markets

Date: 7 June, 2024

Agenda :

09:30-10:00 Welcome

10:00-11:00 Stijn Bruers & Erwin Ooghe (KU Leuven) - Selling the gift of life? Blood and plasma donation in Flanders

11:00-12:00 Peter Jaworski (Georgetown University) - There will be blood (plasma): Why it’s morally good to pay for plasma

12:00-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30 Nicola Lacetera (Toronto) - What is repugnant, really? Understanding the nature of moral concerns about paying for blood and organ donations

14:30-15:30 Ravi Kanbur (Cornell) - Obnoxious Markets at a Distance

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-17:00 Debra Satz (Stanford) - Lingering concerns about a market in kidneys

18:30 Diner (on invitation)

Participation to the workshop is free, but registration is compulsory (register here)

Organizers: Erik Schokkaert and Erwin Ooghe