Wednesday August 7

Preliminary and subject to change

13:00-14:30 LUNCH

14:25-14:30 Welcome and presentation

14:30-15:30 Session 1 An Empirical Model of Wage Dispersion with Sorting
Presenter:  Jesper Bagger Discussant: Timo Boppart

15:30-16:30 Session 2 Work Incentives of Medicaid Beneficiaries and the Role of Asset Testing
Presenter: Svetlana Pashchenko Discussant: Iza Trapeznikova

16:30-16:45 COFFEE

16:45-17:45 Session 3 The Long-Run Phillips Curve and Optimal Inflation
Presenter: Andreas Westermark Discussant: Alessandro Mennuni

17:45-18:45 Session 4 Search-Based Endogenous Illiquidity, Business Cycles and Monetary Policy
Presenter:  Wei Cui Discussant: Tobias Broer

19:30 DINNER at Smögens Havsbad

Thursday August 8

08:00-08:50 BREAKFAST

09:00-10:00 Session 5 Vacancy Matching and Labor Market Conditions
Presenter:  Karolina Stadin Discussant: Gitte Yding Salmansen

10:00-11:00 Session 6 The Effect of Moral Hazard on Wage Inequality with On-the-Job Search and Employer Competition
Presenter:  Susanne Forstner Discussant: Hans Holter

11:00-11:15 COFFEE

11:15-12:15 Session 7 Second-Best Environmental Taxation In Dynamic Models Without Commitment
Presenter: Alex Schmitt Discussant: Andreas Müller

12:15-13:15 LUNCH

13:15-14:15 Session 8 The role of technology in saving the climate: Boundless or rebound?
Presenter Rob Hart Discussant: Paul Klein

14:15-15:15 Session 9 Why do income and productivity differ in OECD countries?
Presenter: Conny Olovsson Discussant:  Vincent Sterk

15:15-15:30 COFFEE

15:30-16:30 Session 10 Human Capital and the State-Dependent Intertemporal Elasticity of Substitution
Presenter: Kjersti Torstensen Discussant: Christoph Winter

17:00-18:30 Football (we meet 16.50 at the hotel and take cars 15 minutes to Hunnebostrand)

19:30- DINNER at Sea Lodge

Friday August 9

07:30-08:20 BREAKFAST

08:30-09:30 Session Job Polarization and Structural Change
Presenter: Zsofia Barany Discussant: TBA

09:30-10:30 Session 11 Investment-led Growth in Crisis: The Finnish Great Depression Revisited
Presenter: Tero Kuusi Discussant: Karl Walentin

10:30-10:45 COFFEE

10:45-11:45 Session 12 A wake-up call: information contagion and speculative currency attacks
Presenter: Christoph Bertsch Discussant: Kristoffer Nimark

11:45-12:45 Session 13 Keynote speech
Title TBA
Presenter: Silvana Tenreyro

12:45-13:45 LUNCH

14:00 -17:00 An afternoon at the beach or on the sea (A trip to famous Hållö Island will be organized)

19:00 DINNER (West Coast Crayfish Party) at Smögens Havsbad

Saturday August 10

08:00-09:00 BREAKFAST

09:00-10:00 Session 14 The Internet and Firm Productivity
Presenter: Anders Åkerman Discussant: Ingvild Almås

10:00-11:00 Session 15 The euro exchange rate during the European sovereign debt crisis - dancing to its own tune?
Presenter: Lenno Uuskula Discussant: TBA

11:00-11:15 COFFEE

11:15-12:15 Session 16 The determinants of economic growth
Presenter: Gernot Doppelhofer Discussant: Neele Balke

12:15 CONFERENCE END AND LUNCH