DAY 1 (December 6)#

Day 1

  • Welcome and housekeeping

  • Parallel Sessions

  • Plenary LAEF Session

  • Policy Forum

  • Welcome Reception

8.30 am - 9 am - Welcome#

  • Welcome speeches

    • ASB Representative

    • WAMS President

    • LAEF Director

9 am - 10 am - Single Session#

Heterogeneity, Business Cycles and International Macroeconomics#

  • Each paper: 30 minutes (25’ talk, 5’ Q&A)

  • Location: CR-W2-05, Level 2 West Wing

  First Name Last Name Affiliation Paper Coauthors Keywords
Session            
E01 Marcel Peruffo University of Sydney Aggregate Uncertainty, HANK, and the ZLB Alessandro Lin Monetary Policy, New Keynesian Model, HANK, Liquidity Traps, Zero Lower Bound, Computational Methods.
E01 Benjamin Wong Monash University Random subspace local projections Viet Hoang Dinh, Didier Nibbering Local Projections, Random Subspace, Impulse Response Functions, Large data sets

10 am - 10.30 am#

Morning Tea

  • Foyer, Asia School of Business

10.30 am - 11.50 am - Plenary Sessions#

LAEF 1 - Consumer Search and Structural Estimation#

  • Location: CR-W2-05, Level 2 West Wing

  First Name Last Name Affiliation Paper Coauthors Keywords
Session            
L03 Allen Head Queen's University Firm Heterogeneity, Consumer Search and Pass-through: Theory and Estimation Alex Chernoff, Beverly Lapham Search, Price setting, Firm heterogeneity, Estimation, Pass-through

12.00 pm - 2.00 pm Lunch Break#

Lunch-time Policy Forum

  • Location: CR-W2-05, Level 2 West Wing

  • Chair: Ozer Karagedikli (ASB)

Panel discussants:

  • Turalay Kenç (INCEIF, Malaysia and CERF, University of Cambridge, former central bank governor of Turkey)

  • Guay Lim (Melbourne Institute)

  • Anella Munro (ASB)

Topics:

  • Macroeconomic theory and policy thinking/practice: Are they too far from each other?

  • What do we know about market power, labour’s income share, and inequality? What might be the causes, consequences and policy issues?

  • What are the issues in the nexus of housing, banking and financial stability? What problems have been solved and what are still open policy problems?

Session format (60 minutes):

  • 15 minutes per discussant of prepared speech on any or all of the listed topics

  • 15 minutes Q&A from the floor

2 pm - 3 pm - Parallel Session#

Money, Payments and Finance#

  • Each paper: 30 minutes (25’ talk, 5’ Q&A)

  • Location: CR-W2-05, Level 2 West Wing

  First Name Last Name Affiliation Paper Coauthors Keywords
Session            
A02 Begona Dominguez University of Queensland Accessing U.S. Dollar Swap Lines: Macroeconomic Implications for a Small Open Economy Pedro Gomis-Porqueras swaps, quantitative easing, repos, interest rate management
A02 Kuk Mo Jung Sogang University, Korea Heterogeneous Asset Valuation in OTC Markets and Optimal Inflation Athanasios Geromichalos monetary-search models, liquidity, asset prices, over-the-counter markets, inflation-welfare relationship

Unemployment, Firms and Business Cycles#

  • Each paper: 30 minutes (25’ talk, 5’ Q&A)

  • Location: CR-W2-03, Level 2 West Wing

  First Name Last Name Affiliation Paper Coauthors Keywords
Session            
E02 Gonzalo Castex The University of New South Wales Job Displacement and the Transferability of Human Capital Gonzalo Castex, Evgenia Dechter, Hugo Hopenhayn human capital, displaced workers, match quality
E02 Oscar Pavlov University of Tasmania Superstar Firms: Equilibrium Instability and Cyclical Inequality Qazi Haque, Mark Weder Superstar firms, animal spirits, multi-product firms, business cycles, Bayesian estimation

3.30 pm - 4 pm#

Afternoon Tea

  • Foyer, Asia School of Business

4 pm - 5 pm - Single Session#

Labor-market Dynamics and Fiscal Policy#

  • Location: CR-W2-05, Level 2 West Wing

  • Each paper: 30 minutes (25’ talk, 5’ Q&A)

  First Name Last Name Affiliation Paper Coauthors Keywords
Session            
A03 Kurt See Bank of Canada Labor Market Shocks and Monetary Policy Serdar Birinci, Fatih Karahan, Yusuf Mercan Job mobility, monetary policy, HANK, job search
A03 Kazuhiro Teramoto Hitotsubashi University Unequal Wage Cyclicality: Evidence, Theory, and Implications for Labor Market Volatility NONE Wage cyclicality, Inequality, Unemployment, Search-and-matching models, On-the-job search, Replacement hiring, Business cycles

5 pm - 7 pm - Welcome Reception#

Welcome Reception

  • Foyer, Asia School of Business.