Consumption and Saving in Macroeconomics
Consumption and Saving in Macroeconomics
Figures shoring up green arrow with sticks (economic recovery)
The Department is pleased to announce that it will be hosting a workshop in macroeconomics with the Paris School of Economics (PSE) and Observatoire française des conjonctures économiques (OFCE) macro group. This workshop brings together researchers interested in understanding consumption and saving behaviour at the microeconomic level and their implications for macroeconomic phenomenons.
Organisers: Jeanne Commault and Xavier Ragot
Programme
Sunday, September 17th, 2023
7.00 pm - Dinner – upon reservation
Monday, September 18th, 2023
8.45 – 9.00 am - Coffee/registration
9.00 – 10.00 am - Taha Choukhmane (MIT Sloan)
How Do Consumers Finance Increased Retirement Savings? - joint with Christopher Palmer
10.00 – 10.45 am - Karin Kinnerud (BI Norwegian Business School and Housing Lab at Oslo)
Met Down-payment requirements: Implications for portfolio choice and consumption - joint with Markus Karlman and Kasper Kragh-Sørensen
10.45 – 11.00 am - Coffee break
11.00 – 11.45 am - Lorenz Kueng (Swiss Finance Institute and University of Lugano)
Renting Hedges Wage Risk - joint with Lee Lockwood, Pinchuan Ong, and Scott Baker
11.45 am – 12.30 pm - Johannes Boehm (Sciences Po)
Five Facts about MPCs: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment - joint with Xavier Jaravel and Etienne Fize
12.30 – 1.30 pm - Lunch
1.30 – 2.15 pm - Axelle Ferrière (Paris School of Economics)
Optimal Redistribution: Rising Inequality vs. Rising Living Standards, joint with Dominik Sachs and Philipp Grübener
2.15 – 3.00 pm - Gianluca Violante (Princeton University)
Who bears the costs of inflation? Euro area households and the 2021–2022 shock
3.00 – 3.15 pm - Coffee break
3.15 – 4.00 pm - Gonzalo Paz Pardo (European Central Bank)
The life-cycle dynamics of wealth mobility - joint with Richard Audoly, Rory McGee and Sergio Ocampo
4.00 – 5.00 pm - Mariacristina De Nardi (University of Minnesota)
The Lifetime Costs of Bad Health - joint with Svetlana Pashchenko and Ponpoje Porapakkarm
Download the programme (PDF 201.17 KB)
When ? MONDAY, September 18th - 8.45 am to 5 pm
*Please note that a dinner is organised September 17th, at 7 pm, upon reservation only via email: places are very limited - first come, first serve!*
Where ? Sciences Po - 1, place Saint Thomas d'Aquin, Paris 75007 - Room K008
*Registration is mandatory*
If you would like to attend, please send an email to Maria Ohlund before September 13th, indicating in the object Workshop Consumption and Saving in Macroeconomics - don't forget to tell us if you would like to attend the dinner the evening before.
Xavier Ragot acknowledges funding from the Agence nationale de la recherche (Project-ANR-20-CE26-0018) for this project. This workshop also benefited from financial support from the partnership between Sciences Po and Banque de France.
