Programme - European University Institute

40th Anniversary of the European University
Institute - Economics Department –
Conference in honour of Jessica Spataro
Organizer:
Ramon Marimon | European University Institute
Refectory and Sala del Capitolo, Badia Fiesolana
Via dei Roccettini, 9 – San Domenico di Fiesole (Florence)
15 January 2016
 PROGRAMME
Friday, 15 January
9.00 – 9.15
Welcome (Refectory)
Joseph H.H. Weiler, President of the EUI
Árpád Ábrahám, Head of the Economics Department, EUI
Parallel Sessions
09:15-10:45
Session I – Refectory – Badia Fiesolana
Chair: Árpád Ábrahám | EUI
Morten Ravn | UCL
“(S)cars and the Great Recession”
Pierpaolo Battigalli | Università Bocconi
Selfconfirming monetary policies
Karl Schlag | University of Vienna
Dynamically Robust Search
Session I – Sala del Capitolo – Badia Fiesolana
Chair: Peter Hansen | EUI
Søren Johansen | University of Copenhagen
An Asymptotic invariance property of the common trends under linear
transformations of the data (with Katarina Juselius)
Anindya Banerjee | University of Birmingham
A Dynamic Factor Model of Interest Rate Pass Through for Four Large Euro Area
Countries (with Victor Bystrov and Paul Mizen)
Massimiliano Marcellino | Università Bocconi
Time-Varying Instrumental Variable Regressions
10:45-11:00 Coffee break | Pre-Refectory hall
11.00-12.00
Session II – Refectory – Badia Fiesolana
Chair: Axelle Ferriere | EUI
Omar Licandro | University of Nottingham
Firm dynamics in the Neoclassical Growth Model
Giancarlo Corsetti | Cambridge and CEPR
Beyond Competitive Devaluations: The Monetary Dimensions of Comparative
Advantage (joint with Paul Bergin)
Session II – Sala del Capitolo – Badia Fiesolana
Chair: Juan Dolado | EUI
Agustin Maravall | Bank of Spain
Life (and seasonality) after the EUI
Helmut Luetkepohl | DIW Berlin
Structural Vector Autoregressions with Smooth Transition in Variances - The
Interaction between US Monetary Policy and the Stock market (with Aleksei
Netsunajev)
12.00-13.00
Faculty, staff and researchers’ perspectives - Refectory
Chair: Andrea Galeotti | EUI
Andrea Ichino | EUI
The Placement of EUI Economic PhD students
13:00-14:00
Lunch | Sala Rossa – by invitation only
14.00-15:00
Session III – Refectory – Badia Fiesolana
Chair: Piero Gottardi | EUI
Alan Kirman | Université d'Aix-Marseille III
The complex origins of the crisis
Luigi Guiso | Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF)
Heterogeneity in returns to wealth and the wealth ineqaulity debate
Session III – Sala del Capitolo – Badia Fiesolana
Chair: David Levine | EUI
Massimo Morelli | Università Bocconi
From Weber to Kafka: Political Activism and the Emergence of an Inefficient
Bureaucracy (with Gabriele Gratton, Luigi Guiso and Claudio Michelacci)
Antonella Ianni | University of Southampton
On the Heresthetics of Salience: Competing over Voters’ Attention
15:00-15:15 Coffee break | Pre-Refectory hall
15.15-16.45
Session IV – Refectory – Badia Fiesolana
Chair: Dominik Sachs | EUI
Domenico Mario Nuti | University of Rome "La Sapienza"
European maso-austerity and its possible remedies
Peter Hammond | University of Warwick
The Kyoto Protocol and Beyond: Pareto Improvements to Policies that Mitigate
Climate Change (co-authored with Graciela Chichilnisky)
David Mond | University of Warwick
What has the Paris agreement on climate change achieved?
Session IV – Sala del Capitolo – Badia Fiesolana
Chair: Andrea Mattozzi | EUI
Pierre Dehez | University of Louvain
Multiple causation, apportionment and the Shapley value (joint with Samuel
Ferey)
Pascal Courty | University of Victoria
A Pure Hedonic Theory of Utility and Status: Unhappy but Efficient Invidious
Comparisons
Fernando Vega Redondo | Università Bocconi
Production networks: a General Equilibrium Approach (joint with Kenan
Huremovic)
19.30 Dinner | Ristorante I Cinque Sensi - by invitation only