Transcript Program

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Rome Junior Conference on Macroeconomics a.k.a. “PIZZANOMICS”

Rome, 12-13 June, 2014 Venue: EIEF - Via Sallustiana, 62 PROGRAM

Thursday, 12 June

10:30

Registration

11:00-12:00

Juan Pablo Xandri (Princeton University)

Robust conditional predictions in a model of Sovereign Debt

” 12:00-13:00

Javier Bianchi

(

University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Efficient Bailouts?”

13:00-14:30

Lunch - Pizza and salads in the yard

14:30-15:30

Ali Shourideh (Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania)

Sovereign Debt vs Redistributive Taxes: Financing Recoveries in Unequal and Uncommitted Economies

” joint with Alessandro Dovis (Princeton University) and Mikhail Golosov (Princeton University). 15:30-16:30

Nicholas Trachter (FRB-Richmond)

Large and Small Sellers: A Theory of Equilibrium Price Dispersion with Sequential Search

” by joint with Guido Menzio (University of Pennsylvania) 16:30-17:00

Coffee break

17:00-18:00

Ezra Oberfield (Princeton University)

The Global Diffusion of Ideas

” joint work with Francisco Buera (FRB-Chicago, UCLA) 20:30

Dinner

Friday, 13 June

11:00-12:00

Matteo Maggiori (NYU-Stern)

International Liquidity and Exchange Rate Dynamics

” joint work with Xavier Gabaix (NYU Stern) 12:00-13:00

Sebastian Di Tella (Stanford Graduate School of Business)

Optimal Financial Regulation and the Concentration of Aggregate Risk

” 13:00-14:30

Lunch - Pizza and salads in the yard

14:30-15:30

Ariel Zetlin-Jones (Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University)

Efficient Financial Crises

” 15:30-16:30

Saki Bigio (Columbia Business School)

Endogenous Liquidity and the Business Cycle

” 16:30-17:00

Coffee break

17:00-18:00

Edouard Schaal (NYU)

Uncertainty Traps

” joint work with Pablo Fajgelbaum (UCLA) and Mathieu Taschereau Dumouchel (Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania) 20:30

Dinner

(FRB-Richmond)

Organized by:

Guillermo Ordoñez (University of Pennsylvania), Facundo Piguillem (EIEF) and Nico Trachter