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The Summer Workshop 2015, July 2-3

The 6th summer workshop in International Finance & Macro Finance will take place at Sciences Po Paris.

The event is co-sponsored by Sciences Po, the Wisconsin School of Business, the Banque de France, with the financial support from the European Research Council under the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013 Grant Agreement no. 336748) for Nicolas Coeurdacier's ERC project INFINHET, and Marie-Curie Actions-Initial Training Networks (ITN) for the MACROHIST— Macroeconomics and Financial History project (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN Grant Agreement N°608129).

Co-organizers: Gaetano Gaballo (Banque de France), Cyril Monnet (University of Bern), Erwan Quintin (Wisconsin School of Business), Nicolas Coeurdacier (SciencesPo) and Philippe Martin (Sciences Po).

Program of the Workshop

Program of the 6th Summer Macro-Finance Workshop (PDF 654Ko)

Thursday, July 2, 2015

Location: Sciences Po, 13 rue de l'Université, 75007 Paris - Room ERIGNAC

Financial Markets and History

  • 09:00-10:00  François Velde (Fed Chicago): Evidence on Investor Preferences: Lottery Loans in the 18th century
  • 10:00-11:00   Fabio Braggion (Tilburg University): A Century of Firm – Bank Relationships. “In the End There Was Banking Sector Deregulation. And It Did Matter. It Spurred Firms to Add Banks and Borrow More.” (joint with Steven Ongena)
  • 11:00-11:30 Break

Economic Fluctuations and the Great Recession

  • 11:30-12:30 Saki Bigio (Columbia): Financial Frictions in Production Networks (joint with Jennifer La'O)
  • 12:30-14:00 Lunch
  • 14:00-15:00 Luca Fornaro (CREI - Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona GSE): Stagnation Traps (joint with G. Benigno)
  • 15:00-16:00 Mirko Wiederholt (University of Frankfurt): Empirical Properties of Inflation Expectations and the Zero Lower Bound
  • 16:00-16:30 Break
  • 16:30-17:30 Patrick Pintus (Aix-Marseille University): Learning Financial Shocks and the Great Recession (joint with Jacek Suda), (PDF, 663Ko)
  • 19.30 Dinner

Friday, July 3, 2015

Location: Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints Pères,75007 Paris - Room CAQUOT

Search, matching and financial markets

  • 08:45-9:45 Manolis Galenianos (Royal Holloway, University of London): Segmentation of information and unsecured credit (joint with Jaromir Nosal)
  • 9:45 -10:45 Ramon Marimon (European University Institute and UPF - Barcelona GSE): Breaking the Spell with Credit-Easing. Self-Confirming Credit Crises in Competitive Search Economies (joint with G. Gaballo)
  • 10:45-11:00 Break
  • 11:00-12:00 Randall Wright (Wisconsin School of Business): Money and Credit Redux (joint with Chao Gu & Fabrizio Mattesini)
  • 12:00-13:00 Pietro Gottardi (EUI): Risk Sharing and Contagion in Networks (joint with Antonio Cabrales and Fernando Vega Redondo)
  • 13:00-14:30 Lunch

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