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Monday Lunch Seminars Alessandro Barattieri (Collegio Carlo Alberto)

"Protectionism and the Business Cycle" Abstract We study the consequences of protectionism for macroeconomic fluctuations. First, using high frequency trade-policy data, we present fresh evidence on the dynamic effects of temporary trade barriers. Estimates from country-level and panel VARs show that protectionism acts as a supply shock, causing output to fall and inflation to rise in the short…

Seminars in Statistics Kazuhiko Kakamu (Kobe University)

How does monetary policy affect  income inequality in Japan? Evidence from grouped data Co-author: Martin Feldkircher (Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB)) Abstract: We examine the effects of monetary policy on income inequality in Japan using a novel  econometric approach that jointly estimates the Gini coefficient based on micro-level grouped data of households and the dynamics of macroeconomic…

Monday Lunch Seminars Claudio Campanale (Università di Torino)

"Consumption  insurance with Epstein-Zin preferences" abstract "Partial insurance is a characteristic feature of Standard Incomplete Market(SIM) models. In a recent paper Kaplan and Violante (2010) test a life-cycle version of the model against insurance coefficients computed from data and show that the model falls short of predicting the correct degree of smoothing of permanent shocks…

Monday Lunch Seminars Emanuele Felice (UAB)

"The roots of a dual equilibrium: GDP, productivity and structural change in the Italian regions in the long-run (1871-2011)" abstract This paper explores the long-run evolution of regional inequality in Italy over the course of 140 years, from around Unification (1871) until our days (2011). To this scope, a unique and up-to-date dataset of GDP…

[Academic Events] Workshop Workshop on household finance and economic behaviour

May 4, 2017 @ 2:00 pm at School of Management and Economics May 5, 2017 @ 9:15 am at Collegio Carlo Alberto Organizers: PIOTR BIALOWOLSKI and MARIACRISTINA ROSSI Invited Speakers: MICHAEL HALIASSOS (Goethe University Frankfurt) ARTHUR VAN SOEST (Tilburg University) To register for participation please e-mail cerp@carloalberto.org

Seminars in Economics Sarah Auster (Bocconi)*

"Optimal Delegation, Unawareness, and Financial Intermediation" abstract We study the delegation problem between an investor and a financial intermediary. The intermediary has private information about the state of the world that determines the return of the investment. Moreover, he has superior awareness of the available investment opportunities and decides whether to reveal some of them…

Monday Lunch Seminars Cristiano Cantore (University of Surrey)

"The Profit Share, the Labor Share, and Monetary Policy Shocks" Abstract Despite its importance, studies on the effect of monetary policy shocks on the laborshare and the share of corporate profits are very limited. In this paper we fill this gap in twoways. Firstly, we provide new and robust evidence on the effects of MP…