53rd Konstanz Seminar, 2022

The conference was held from Tuesday, May 31st to Thursday, June 2nd, 2022.

Participation was by invitation only.

Program as pdf.

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Presenters and discussants:

Alaïs Martin-Baillon, Sciences Po, slides

Should Monetary Policy Care about Redistribution? Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Agents (with François Le Grand and Xavier Ragot)

Discussant: Anna Rogantini Picco, Sveriges Riksbank, slides

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Galo Nuño, Banco de España, slides

Firm Heterogeneity, Capital Misallocation and Optimal Monetary Policy (with Beatriz Gonzalez, Dominik Thaler, and Silvia Albrizio)

Discussant: Agnieszka Markiewicz, Erasmus Univ Rotterdam, slides

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Stephie Fried, Arizona State University and San Francisco Fed, slides

Understanding the Inequality and Welfare Impacts of Carbon Tax Policies (with Kevin Novan and William B. Peterman)

Discussant: Simon Fuchs, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, slides

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Kjetil Storesletten, University of Minnesota, slides

Business Cycles During Structural Change: Arthur Lewis’ Theory from a Neoclassical Perspective (with Bo Zhao and Fabrizio Zilibotti)

Discussant: Gregor Boehl, University of Bonn, slides

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Harris Dellas, University of Bern

Public Debt as Private Liquidity: Optimal Policy (with George-Marios Angeletos and Fabrice Collard)

Discussant: Dmitriy Sergeyev, Bocconi University, slides

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Gauti Eggertsson, Brown University, slides

The Aging Hypothesis (with Neil Mehrotra)

Discussant: Guido Ascari, De Nederlandsche Bank, slides

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Salome Baslandze, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, slides

Entrepreneurship through Employee Mobility, Innovation, and Growth

Discussant: Rüdiger Bachmann, University of Notre Dame, slides

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Andrew Atkeson, University of California, Los Angeles, slides

The End of Privilege: A Reexamination of the Net Foreign Asset Position in the United States (with Jonathan Heathcote and Fabrizio Perri)

Discussant: Federica Romei, Oxford University, slides

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Policy session:

Christopher J. Waller,
Governor, Board of Governors of Federal Reserve System