1884 - Plenary Session Papers

Slides presented during ESSIM (links to Banco de Espana's website)

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Wednesday 24 May

15.30 - 16.30 On the optimal design of a Financial Stability Fund

*Ramon Marimon (European University Institute and CEPR) joint with Arpad Abraham (European University Institute), Eva Carceles-Poveda (SUNY at Stony Brook) and Yan Liu (Wuhan University)

16.30 - 17.30 Divergent Risk-Attitudes and Endogenous Collateral Constraints

*Ester Faia (Goethe University Frankfurt and CEPR) joint with Giuliano Curatola (Goethe University Frankfurt)

18.00 - 19.00 Cereals, Appropriability and Hierarchy

*Luigi Pascali (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, University of Warwick and CEPR) joint with Joram Mayshar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Omer Moav (University of Warwick and CEPR) and Zvika Neeman (Tel-Aviv University)

20.30 - 21.30 TFP, News, and "Sentiments:" The International Transmission of Business Cycles

*Andrei A. Levchenko (University of Michigan) joint with Nitya Pandalai-Nayar (University of Michigan)

21.30 - 22.30 Consumption and House Prices in the Great Recession

*Giovanni L. Violante (Princeton University and CEPR) joint with Greg Kaplan (University of Chicago) and Kurt Mitman (IIES Stockholm and CEPR)

Thursday 25 May

09.00 - 10.00 A Model of the International Monetary System

*Emmanuel Farhi (Harvard University and CEPR) joint with Matteo Maggiori (Harvard University and CEPR)

10.00 - 11.00 Unbalanced Growth Slowdown

*Akos Valentinyi (University of Manchester and CEPR) joint with Georg Duernecker (University of Mannheim and CEPR) and Berthold Herrendorf (Arizona State University)

11.30 - 12.30 The Secular Stagnation of Investment

*Thomas Philippon (New York University and CEPR) joint with Callum Jones (New York University)

How Destructive is Innovation?

*Chang-Tai Hsieh (Booth School of Business, University of Chicago and CEPR) joint with Daniel Garcia-Macia (IMF) and Peter J. Klenow (Stanford University)