3rd Rome Junior Conference on Macroeconomics
a.k.a. “PIZZANOMICS”
Rome, 12-13 June, 2014
Venue: EIEF - Via Sallustiana, 62
PROGRAM
Thursday, 12 June
10:30 Registration
11:00-12:00 Juan Pablo Xandri (Princeton University)
“Robust conditional predictions in a model of Sovereign Debt”
12:00-13:00 Javier Bianchi (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
“Efficient Bailouts?”
13:00-14:30 Lunch - Pizza and salads in the yard
14:30-15:30 Ali Shourideh (Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania)
“Sovereign Debt vs Redistributive Taxes: Financing Recoveries in Unequal and Uncommitted Economies”
joint with Alessandro Dovis (Princeton University) and Mikhail Golosov (Princeton
University).
15:30-16:30 Nicholas Trachter (FRB-Richmond)
“Large and Small Sellers: A Theory of Equilibrium Price Dispersion with Sequential Search” by joint
with Guido Menzio (University of Pennsylvania)
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-18:00 Ezra Oberfield (Princeton University)
“The Global Diffusion of Ideas” joint work with Francisco Buera (FRB-Chicago, UCLA)
20:30
Dinner
Friday, 13 June
11:00-12:00 Matteo Maggiori (NYU-Stern)
“International Liquidity and Exchange Rate Dynamics” joint work with Xavier Gabaix (NYUStern)
12:00-13:00 Sebastian Di Tella (Stanford Graduate School of Business)
“Optimal Financial Regulation and the Concentration of Aggregate Risk”
13:00-14:30 Lunch - Pizza and salads in the yard
14:30-15:30 Ariel Zetlin-Jones (Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University)
“Efficient Financial Crises”
15:30-16:30 Saki Bigio (Columbia Business School)
“Endogenous Liquidity and the Business Cycle”
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-18:00 Edouard Schaal (NYU)
“Uncertainty Traps” joint work with Pablo Fajgelbaum (UCLA) and Mathieu TaschereauDumouchel (Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania)
20:30
Dinner
Organized by:
Guillermo Ordoñez (University of Pennsylvania), Facundo Piguillem (EIEF) and Nico Trachter
(FRB-Richmond)