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Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods
Anglo – French - Italian Macroeconomic Workshop Pavia, 4-5 April 2008 Ex-Chiesa di San Felice, Facoltà di Economia Program
Friday, 4 th April
9:45 Opening: Welcome by the Dean of the Faculty of Economics Chairman: Guido Ascari, University of Pavia
10.00: Learning and Price Volatility in Duopoly Models of Resource Depletion Martin Ellison, University of Oxford Discussant: Ulf Soderstrom, IGIER – Bocconi University, Milan
11:00: Disinflation Shocks in the Eurozone: A DSGE Perspective Patrick Feve, University of Tuolouse Discussant: Tony Yates, Bank of England
12:00: Gerontocracy and Economic Decline: An Italian Tale Giorgio Bellettini, University of Bologna Discussant: Bertrand Wigniolle, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, CNRS and Eurequa
13.00: Lunch
Chairman: Tommaso Monacelli, IGIER – Bocconi University, Milan 14:30: On policy interactions among nations: when do cooperation and commitment matter Hubert Kempf, University of Paris 1 Discussant: Paolo Manasse, University of Bologna
15:30: Portfolio Choices with Near Rational Agents: A Solution of Some International-Finance Puzzles Pierpaolo Benigno, LUISS University - Rome Discussant: Stephane Guibaud, London School of Economcis
16:30 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00: Two saddles and a source: multiple equilibria with an endogenous markup Huw Dixon, Cardiff University Discussant: Stefano Bosi, University of Lille
18:00: Endogenous Market Structures and the Business Cycle Federico Etro, University of Milan-Bicocca Discussant: Liam Graham, University College of London
20:30: Dinner
Saturday, 5 th April
Chairman. Luca Sala, IGIER – Bocconi University, Milan 9:00: Identification of New Keynesian Phillips Curves from a Global Perspective Vanessa Smith, University of Cambridge Discussant: Luca Fanelli, University of Bologna
10:00: Debt and the Effects of Fiscal Policy Carlo Favero, IGIER – Bocconi University, Milan Discussant: Eric Girardin, University of Aix Marseille II -GREQAM
10:00 10:20 Coffee Break
11:20: Taylor Rules Cause Fiscal Policy Ineffectiveness Neil Rankin, University of Warwick Discussant: Giancarlo Marini, University of Rome - Tor Vergata
12:20: Interest Rate Rules and Global Determinacy: An Alternative to the Taylor Principle Jean Pascal Benassy, CEPREMAP Discussant: Gianluca Femminis, Catholic University of Milan For each paper, the author has 40 minutes and the discussant 10 minutes, with a further 10 ORGANIZERS Guido Ascari, University of Pavia Eric Girardin, University of Aix Marseille II -GREQAM
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PRACTICAL INFORMATIONS LOCAL ORGANIZERS Guido Ascari, Email: guido.ascari at unipv.it Instructions on how to reach Pavia Map of the city centre of Pavia showing how to get to the Faculty of Economics from the train station (10-15 minutes walking). The number 16 on the map is the church Chiesa del Carmine, very close to the Faculty of Economics. |
