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Salento Macro Meetings 2022 | July 25-26

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The fifth edition of the Salento Macro Meetings will take place in Lecce, Italy on July 25th and 26th, 2022. The objective of this event is to bring distinguished researchers in Macroeconomics in the relaxed and fruitful atmosphere of Salento, the peninsula located in the southernmost region of Apulia, Italy.

Salento Macro Meetings 2022

Dates: July 25th and 26th, 2022
Venue: Hotel Risorgimento - Lecce, Italy

Program:

Monday July 25th

09:30-10:15
Systematic Monetary Policy and the Effects of Government Spending
Lukas Hack (University of Mannheim), Klodiana Istrefi* (Banque de France, CEPR), Matthias Meier (University of Mannheim)
Discussant: Karel Mertens* (St. Louis Fed)

10:15-11:00
The Dynamic effects of Economic Shocks on Heterogeneous Inflation Expectations
Yoosoon Chang (Indiana University), Fabio Gomez-Rodrıguez (Lehigh University, Central Bank of Costa Rica), Gee Hee Hong* (International Monetary Fund)
Discussant: Cristiano Cantore* (Bank of England)

11:00-11:15
Coffee break

11:15-12:00
Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Banks
Marco Bellifemine (London School of Economics), Tommaso Monacelli* (Bocconi University, CEPR), Rustam Jamilov (University of Oxford)
Discussant: Ia Vardishvili* (Auburn University)

12:00-12:45
Invited talk
Monetary Policy during the Pandemic
Sylvana Tenreyro* (London School of Economics, Bank of England, CEPR)

12:45-13:45
Lunch

13:45-14:30
The Exchange Rate Insulation Puzzle
Giancarlo Corsetti (Cambridge University, CEPR), Keith Kuester* (University of Bonn, CEPR), Gernot Muller (University of Tubingen, CEPR), Sebastian Schmidt (European Central Bank, CEPR)
Discussant: Sebastian Fanelli* (CEMFI)

14:30-15:15
Global Demand for Financial Assets, Falling Real Interest Rates and Macroeconomic Instability
Enrique Mendoza (Univesity of Pennsylvania) and Vincenzo Quadrini* (University of Southern California, CEPR)
Discussant: Jean-Baptiste Michau* (Ecole Polytechnique)

15:15-15:30
Coffee break

15:30-16:15
The Long-Run Effects of Monetary Policy
Oscar Jorda (San Francisco Fed, University of California Davis), Sanjay R. Singh* (University of California Davis), Alan M. Taylor (University of California Davis)
Discussant: Georgios Georgiadis* (European Central Bank)

16:15-17:00
Invited talk
Optimal Exchange Rate Policy
Oleg Itskhoki* (Economics at University of California, Los Angeles)

18:45-20:00
Guided tour of Lecce

20:00
Social dinner in Lecce

Tuesday July 26th

09:30-10:15
News, Noise, and Anchoring Shape International Yield Curves
Refet S. Gurkaynak* (Bilkent University, CEPR), Mark Kerssenfischer (Deutsche Bundesbank), Burcin Kısacıkoglu (Bilkent University), Jonathan H. Wright (Johns Hopkins University)
Discussant: Marco Del Negro* (New York Fed)

10:15-11:00
Scalable Expertise
David Argente (Pennsylvania State University), Sara Moreira* (Northwestern University), Ezra Oberfield (Princeton University), Venky Venkateswaran (New York University)
Discussant: Andres Drenik* (The University of Texas at Austin)

11:00-11:15
Coffee break

11:15-12:00
Learning by Necessity: Government Demand, Capacity Constraints, and Productivity Growth
Ethan Ilzetzki* (London School of Economics)
Discussant: Rustam Jamilov* (University of Oxford)

12:00-12:45
Invited talk
Financial Frictions: Micro vs Macro Volatility
Morten Ravn* (Univesity College London, CEPR)

12:45-14:00
Lunch

15:30
Bus departure: from Piazzetta Caduti sul Lavoro to Porto Selvaggio (Ionian Sea)

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Organizers:
Sushant Acharya (Bank of Canada, CEPR)
Carlo Galli (University Carlos III Madrid)
Gaetano Gaballo (HEC Paris, CEPR)
Luigi Paciello (EIEF, CEPR)
Francesco Pappadà (Paris School of Economics, Βanque de France)

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The organizers kindly acknowledge the financial support from the International Macroeconomics Chair.