International Macroeconomics

Date: 7-8 June, 2022, lecture hall 00.85

Scientific committee: Ferre De Graeve, Michal Kobielarz, Christian Pröbsting

Tuesday, June 7

08:45 – 09:00     Welcome with coffee.

09:00 – 09:45     “Optimal Exchange Rate Policy” by Dmitry Mukhin (London School of Economics and Political Science) joint work with Oleg Itskhoki.

09:45 – 10:30 “Sovereign Debt, Default and International Liquidity” by Hernan D. Seoane (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) joint work with Alvaro Salazar-Perez

10:30 – 11:00     Coffee break.

11:00 – 11:45     “Debt Moratorium: Theory and Evidence” by Yasin Kürşat Önder (Ghent University) joint work with Maria Alejandra Ruiz-Sanchez and Mauricio Villamizar-Villegas

11:45 – 12:30     “Export-Led Decay: The Trade Channel in the Gold Standard Era” by Mathieu Pedemonte (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland) joint work with Bernardo Candia.

12:30 – 13:45     Lunch break.

13:45 – 14:30     “Foreign Currency Debt and Expectations” by Kenza Benhima (University of Lausanne & CEPR) joint work with Isabella Blengini and Ouarda Merrouche

14:30 – 15:15     “Foreign Reserves Management and Original Sin” by Michael Devereux (University of British Columbia) joint work with Steve Pak Yeung Wu

15:15 – 16:00     “Why Do Emerging Economies Borrow in Foreign Currency? The Role of Exchange Rate Risk” by Annie Soyean Lee (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

16:00 – 16:30     Coffee break.

16:30 – 17:15     “Imperfect Financial Markets and the Cyclicality of Social Spending” by Wojtek Paczos (Cardiff University) joint work with Maren Froemel

17:15 – 18:00     “Fiscal policy, international spillovers, and endogenous productivity” by Matthias Klein (Sveriges Riksbank) joint work with Ludger Linnemann

19:30             Conference dinner at the Faculty Club (Groot Begijnhof 14, Leuven)

Wednesday, June 8

08:45 – 09:00   Welcome with coffee.

09:00 – 09:45   “The trend-cycle connection” by Florencia S. Airaudo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) joint work with Hernan D. Seoane

09:45 – 10:30   “Speculative Bubbles and Aggregate Boom Bust Cycles: Closed and Open Economies” by Robert Kollmann (Universite Libre de Bruxelles & CEPR)

10:30 – 11:00   Coffee break.

11:00 – 11:45   “The Brexit Vote, Productivity Growth and Macroeconomic Adjustments in the United Kingdom” by Thomas Drechsel (University of Maryland) joint work with Ben Broadbent, Federico Di Pace, Richard Harrison, and Silvana Tenreyro.

11:45 – 12:30   “Output Divergence in Fixed Exchange Rate Regimes: Is the Euro Area Growing Apart?” by Yao Chen (Erasmus University Rotterdam) joint work with Felix Ward

12:30 – 13:45   Lunch break.

13:45 – 14:30   “The Ultralong Sovereign Default Risk” by Radosław Paluszyński (University of Houston)

14:30 – 15:15   “The Term Structure of Interest Rates in a Heterogeneous Monetary Union” by James Costain (Banco de España) joint work with Galo Nuno and Carlos Thomas

15:15 – 16:00   “Asset Purchases and Default-Inflation Risks in Noisy Financial Markets” by Carlo Galli (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) joint work with Gaetano Gaballo

19:30           Conference dinner at the Faculty Club (Groot Begijnhof 14, Leuven)

Industrial Organization

Date: 8-9 June, 2022, lecture hall 01.85

Scientific committee: Jan De Loecker, Sebastian Fleitas, Jo Van Biesebroeck, Frank Verboven

Wednesday, June 8, 2022

8:45 - 9:00  Welcome

9:00 - 10:00 “Credit Conditions when Lenders are Commonly Owned” by Laura Grigolon (University of Mannheim), joint work with Mattia Colombo and Emanuele Tarantino

10:00-11:00   “Airbnb, Hotels, and Localized Competition” by Kevin Tran (University of Bristol) with Maximilian Schaefer

11:00-11:30 Coffee break.

11:30-12:30   “Soda Taxes and Dynamic Advertising” by Pierre Dubois (Toulouse School of Economics), joint work with Rossi Abi-Rafeh, Rachel Griffith and Martin O’Connell

12:30-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:00 “Market Structure, Vertical Integration & Farmers’ Welfare in the Costa Rica Coffee Industry” by Nicola Pavanini (Tilburg University), joint work with Fabrizio Leone, Rocco Macchiavello and Josepa Miquel-Florensa

15:00-16:00 “Unobserved Heterogeneity, State Dependence, and Health Plan Choices” by Ariel Pakes (Harvard University), joint work with Jack Porter, Mark Shepard and Sophie Calder-Wang

19:30           Conference dinner at the Faculty Club (Groot Begijnhof 14, Leuven)

Thursday, June 9, 2022

8:45-9:00    Welcome

9:00-10:00  “Rising Markups and the Role of Consumer Preferences” by Joel Stiebale (DICE, Heinrich Heine University) joint work with Hendrik Dopper, Alexander MacKay and Nathan H. Miller

10:00-11:00 “Picking Your Patients: Selective Admissions in the Nursing Home Industry” by Ashvin Gandhi (University of California Los Angeles)

11:00-11:30 Coffee break.

11:30-12:30 “The Value of Infrastructure and Market Integration: Evidence from Renewable Expansion in Chile” by Mar Reguant (Northwestern University) joint work with Luis Gonzales and Koichiro Ito

12:30-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:00 “Market Power in the U.S. Airline Industry” by German Bet (University of Florida)

15:00-16:00 “Advertising Prices in Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence” by Ali Yurukoglu (Stanford University) joint work with Matthew Gentzkow, Jesse M. Shapiro and Frank Yang

16:15-17:15 “Nonparametric Identification Using Timing and Information Set Assumptions with an Application to Non-Hicks Neutral Productivity Shocks" by Dan Ackerberg (UT - Austin) with Jinyong Hahn and Qingsong Pan     

19:30           Conference dinner at the Faculty Club (Groot Begijnhof 14, Leuven)

Labor/Family Economics

Date: 9-10 June, 2022, lecture hall 00.85

Scientific committee: Laurens Cherchye, Edoardo Ciscato, Frederic Vermeulen, Mariana Zerpa

Thursday, June 9

08:45 – 09:00  Welcome with coffee.

09:00 – 09:45  “50 Years of UK Resource Shares” by Krishna Pendakur (Simon Fraser University) joint work with Heidi Karjalainen and Valérie Lechene.

09:45 – 10:30 “Job displacement, remarriage, and marital sorting” by Hanno Foerster (Boston College) and Bastian Schulz (Aarhus University) joint work with Tim Obermeier and Alexander Paul

10:30 – 11:00  Coffee break.

11:00 – 11:45 “(Changing) marriage and cohabitation patterns in the US: Do divorce laws matter?” by Fabio Blasutto (Stockholm School of Economics) joint work with Egor Kozlov

11:45 – 12:30  “Minimum wages and employment composition” by Krista Ruffini (Georgetown University) joint work with Ashvin Gandhi

12:30 – 13:45  Lunch break.

13:45 – 14:30  “Life-Cycle Fertility, Human Capital, and Family Polices: A Discrete-Continuous Choice Framework” by George-Levi Gayle (Washington University in St. Louis) joint work with Andres Hincapie and Robert Miller

14:30 – 15:15  “Parental beliefs, perceived health risks and time investments in children during COVID-19” by Alessandro Toppeta (University College London) joint work with Gabriella Conti and Michele Giannola

15:15 – 15:45  Coffee break.

15:45 – 16:30  “Spousal bargaining power and consumption of married couples in the US: evidence from scanner data” by Yu Kyung Koh (Columbia University) joint work with So Yoon Ahn

16:30 – 17:15  “Household Labour Search, Spousal Insurance, and Health Care Reform” by Andrew Shephard (University of Pennsylvania) joint work with Hanming Fang

17:15 – 18:00  “A Spouse and a House are all we need? Housing wealth, labor supply and divorce over the lifecycle” by Tom Potoms (University of Sussex) joint work with Bram De Rock and Mariia Kovaleva

19:30           Conference dinner at the Faculty Club (Groot Begijnhof 14, Leuven)

Friday, June 10

08:45 – 09:00  Welcome with coffee.

09:00 – 09:45 “The emergence of procyclical fertility: The role of gender differences in employment risk” by Sena Coskun (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg and IAB) joint work with Husnu Dalgic

09:45 – 10:30 “Parents' effective time endowment and divorce: evidence from extended school days” by Cecilia Peluffo (University of Florida) joint work with María Padilla-Romo and Mariana Viollaz

10:30 – 11:00  Coffee break.

11:00 – 11:45  “What Accounts for the Racial Gap in Time Allocation and Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital?” by Limor Golan (Washington University in St. Louis) joint work with George-Levi Gayle and Mehmet Soytas

11:45 – 12:30  “Commitment and the dynamics of household labor supply” by Alex Theloudis (Tilburg University) joint work with Pierre André Chiappori, José Ignacio Giménez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina and Jorge Velilla

12:30 – 13:45  Lunch break.

13:45 – 14:30 “Male fertility: facts, distribution and drivers of inequality” by Selma Walther (University of Sussex) joint work with Bernt Bratsberg and Andreas Kotsadam

14:30 – 15:15  “Joint search over the life cycle” by Philipp Grübener (Goethe University Frankfurt) joint work with Annika Bacher and Lukas Nord