Wednesday August 5

Preliminary and subject to change

 

13:30-14:30 LUNCH

14:25-14:30 Welcome and presentation

14:30-15:30 Session 1

            Cyclical Skill-Biased Technological Change

Presenter:  Almut Balleer Discussant: Martin Seneca

15:30-16:30 Session 2

            Fiscal Transparency and Procyclical Fiscal Policy

Presenter:  Asger Lau Andersen Discussant: Alessandro Mennuni

16:30-16:45 COFFEE

16:45-17:45 Session 3

Convergence? Cost-of-living indices for measuring global trends in inequality and poverty

Presenter: Ingvild Almås Discussant: Heng Chen

17:45-18:45 Session 4

            Lightning, IT Diffusion and Economic Growth across US States

Presenter:  Jeanet Bentzen Discussant: Lenno Uusküla

19:30 DINNER

Thursday August 6

07:30-08:30 BREAKFAST

08:30-09:30 Session 5

            LIFE CYCLE LABOR SUPPLY AND RETIREMENT IN A MODEL WITH ENDOGENOUS HUMAN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION

Presenter: Johanna Wallenius Discussant: Martin Ljunge

09:30-10:30 Session 6

            Estimating a Collective Model of Labor Supply:How Did Households Respond to the Tax Reform of the Century?

Presenter: Kelly Ragan Discussant: Max Elger

10:30-10:45 COFFEE

10:45-11:45 Session 7

Household Beliefs - Implications for Housing Choice and Financial Sophistication

Presenter: Roine Vestman Discussant: Almut Balleer

11:45-12:45 Session 8

Matching in the housing market with risk aversion and savings

Presenter:  Nikku Määtänen Discussant: Jonathan Halket

12:45-13:45 LUNCH

14:00 -17:00 An afternoon at the beach or on the sea

17:00-18:30 Football

19:00- DINNER

 

Friday August 7

 

08:00-09:00 BREAKFAST

09:00-10:00 Session 9

            THE NATURAL-RESOURCE SEE-SAW:

Presenter: Rob Hart  Discussant: Kaji Chen

10:00-11:00 Session 10

            Energy-saving technical change

Presenter:  Conny Olovsson Discussant: John Knowles

11:00-11:15 COFFEE

11:15-12:15 Session 11

Non-nested Information Sets and the Term Structure of Interest Rates

Presenter: Kristoffer Nimark  Discussant:  Pontus Rendahl

12:15-13:30 LUNCH

13:30-14:30 Session 12 Keynote speech

Title TBA

Presenter: Fabrizio Zilibotti

14:30-14:45 COFFEE

14:45-15:45 Session 13

Underdevelopment of financial markets and excess consumption volatility in developing countries

Presenter:  Heng Chen Discussant: Paul Klein

15:45-16:45 Session 14

            Domestic or global imbalances? Rising inequality and the fall in the US current account

            Presenter:  Tobias Broer Discussant: Tessa Bold

17:00-18:30 Football

19:00 DINNER at the Sea Lodge

 

Saturday August 8

08:00-09:00 BREAKFAST

09:00-10:00 Session 15

            Precautionary Corporate Liquidity

Presenter: Kaji Chen Discussant: Henrique Basso

10:00-11:00 Session 16

            Surveys and Econometricians When can surveys beat econometricians in forecasting inflation

Presenter: Krisztina Molnar Discussant: Fredrik NG Andersson

11:00-11:15 COFFEE

11:15-12:15 Session 17

Rigid Pricing and Rationally Inattentive Consumer

Presenter:  Filip Matejka Discussant: Kristoffer Nimark

12:15 CONFERENCE END AND LUNCH