Program

09.50

Welcome

Johannes Brumm
(University of Zurich)

10.00 – 10.50

Unemployment (fears) and deflationary spirals

Pontus Rendahl
(Cambridge University)

11.00 – 11.50

Firm dynamics with frictional product and labor markets

Leo Kaas
(University of Konstanz)

12.00 – 12.50

Wage risk and the skill premium

Ctirad Slavik
(Goethe University Frankfurt)

13.00 – 14.30

Lunch break

14.30 – 15.20

Optimal policy with heterogeneous agents and aggregate shocks: An application to optimal public debt dynamics

François Le Grand

(EMLyon Business School).

15.20 – 15.40

Coffee break

15.40 – 16.30

Identifying ambiguity shocks in business cycle models using survey data

Jaroslav Borovicka
(New York University)

16.40 – 17.30

Investor heterogeneity, recursive preferences and long-run consumption risks

Karl Schmedders
(University of Zurich)

17.30 – 17.40

Closing

Felix Kübler
(University of Zurich)