Programme
| Time | Thursday 30th June | Friday 1st July |
|---|---|---|
| 8am - 10.30am | Registration | Parallel Session 3 |
| 10.50am – 12.30pm | Keith Blackburn: Welcome Chair: Keith Blackburn |
Talk 4: Chair - Denise Osborn |
| 12.30pm – 1.30pm | Lunch Break | Lunch Break |
| 1.30pm – 3pm | Parallel Session 1 | Parallel Session 2 |
| 3pm - 3.30pm | Tea Break | Tea Break |
| 3.30pm - 5pm | Parallel Session 2 | |
| 5.15pm - 6pm | Talk 3: Chair: Anne Villamil |
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| 7pm | Dinner |
Parallel Session 1: Thursday 30th June, 1.30pm - 3pm
| Theory: Investment, Volatility and Growth Chair: Max Gillman Room: Griffiths |
Empirical: Growth and Development Chair: Sugata Ghosh Room: Lindsey |
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| 1) Chadha and Warren "Business cycle accounting during UK recessions: are we neglecting the role of investment?" |
1) Baptist, Eberhardt and Teal "Production technology and technical progress" |
| 2) Annicchiarico and Pelloni "Growth and volatility: how important are wage and price rigidities?" |
2) Bhatti, Haque and Osborn "Inequality and the process of economic growth: threshold effects of human capital to physical capital ratio" |
| 3) Dang, Gillman and Kejak "Real business cycles with a human capital investment sector and endogenous growth: persistence, volatility and labour puzzles" |
3) Ghosh and Gregoriou "What is the role of democracy in the ethnicity-growth relationship?" |
Parallel Session 2: Thursday 30th June, 3.30pm - 5pm
| Theory: Money and Finance Chair: Alessandra Pelloni Room: Griffiths |
Empirical: Monetary Policy Chair: Hilde Bjørnland Room: Lindsey |
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| 1) Gutiérrez and Palmero "A note on the real effects of monetary shocks: a parsimonious limited participation model" |
1) Arestis, Karaglou Mouratidis "Comparing the monetary policy preferences of the ECB and of the Bank of England" |
| 2)) Antunes, Cavalcanti and Villamil "Intermediation costs and welfare under bankruptcy" |
2) Hall, Osborn and Sakkas "Breaks in US monetary policy: an information criteria approach to inference with endogenous regressors" |
| 3) Acocella, Bartolomeo, Bisio and Pelloni "Labour market imperfections, real wage rigidities and financial shocks" |
3) Aastveit, Thorsrud and Bjørnland "The world is not enough: monetary policy and regional dependence" |
Parallel Session 3: Friday 1st July, 9am -10.30am
| Theory: Imperfect competition and nominal rigidities Chair: Paul Middleditch Room: Griffiths |
Empirical: Macroeconomic Forecasting Chair: Heather Anderson Room: Lindsey |
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| 1) Görtz and Tsoukalas "UK business cycles: evidence from an estimated two-sector DSGE model" |
1) Clements and Galvão "Improving real-time estimates of output gaps and inflation trends with multiple-vintage VAR models" |
| 2) Bratsiotis and Tayler "A new Keynesian model with relative price effects in aggregate consumption" |
2) Lanne and Nyberg "Forecasting US macroeconomic and financial time series with noncausal and causal AR models: a comparison" |
| 3) Middleditch "A new Keynesian model with heterogeneous price setting" |
3) Tian and Anderson "Forecasting under structural break uncertainty" |
Parallel Session 4: Friday 1st July, 1.30pm - 3pm
| Theory: Growth, Development and Inequality Chair: Christopher Tsoukis Room: Griffiths |
Empirical: Real Time Analysis Chair: Jan Jacobs Room: Lindsey |
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| 1) Forgues-Puccio and Okumu "Does size matter? Scale, corruption and uncertainty" |
1) Aguiar-Conraria, Martins and Soares "The yield curve and the macro-economy across time and frequencies" |
| 2)Roberts "The conflating effects of education and financial competition in an AK growth model with Nelson-Phelps human capital" |
2) Frale, Grassi, Mazzi and Proietti "EuroMInd: a monthly indicator of economic activity for the Euro area and the main member countries" |
| 3) Tsoukis and Tournemaine "Status in a canonical macro model: labour supply, growth and inequality" |
3) Jacobs and van Norden "Lessons from the latest data on US productivity" |