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Workshop Program
EES Kick-off Workshop
The Labor Market and the Business Cycle
ENSURING ECONOMIC AND EMPLOYMENT STABILITY
MARCH 5 – 7, 2009
Kiel Institute for the World Economy / Germany
Program
| Thursday, March 5th | |
| 18:30 – 21:00 | RECEPTION DINNER (Hotel Maritim) |
| Friday, March 6th | |
| 08.30 – 8.45 | Opening Remarks — Dennis J. Snower |
| 09:00-12:30 | MORNING SESSIONS |
| 09:00-10:30 | PARALLEL SESSION 1A |
| Wolfgang Lechthaler, Christian Merkl and Dennis J. Snower “Monetary persistence and the labor market: A new perspective.” | |
| Carlos Thomas and Francesco Zanetti “Labor market reform and price stability: An application to the euro area.” | |
| 09:00-10:30 | PARALLEL SESSION 1B |
| Hermann Gartner, Thorsten Schank and Claus Schnabel “Cyclicality of nominal wages across bargaining regimes – evidence from German employer-employee data.” | |
| Marco Hoeberichts, Giuseppe Bertola, Aurelijus Dabusinskas Mario Izquierdo, Claudia Kwapil, Jeremi Montornès and Daniel Radowski “Price, wage and employment response to shocks: Evidence from the WDN survey.” | |
| 10:30-11:00 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:00-12:30 | PARALLEL SESSION 2A |
| Almut Balleer "New evidence, old puzzles: Technology shocks and labor market dynamics." | |
Christian Haefke, Marcus Sonntag and Thijs van Rens "Wage rigidity and job creation." | |
| 11:00-12:30 | PARALLEL SESSION 2B |
| Aleksander Berentsen, Randall Wright and Guido Menzio “Inflation and unemployment in the long run.” | |
| Alberto Dalmazzo and Alex Cukierman “Monetary Institutions: Their long run impact on unemployment, inflation and welfare.” | |
| 12:30-14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00-18:00 | AFTERNOON SESSIONS |
| 14:00-15:30 | PARALLEL SESSION 3A |
| Thomas A. Lubik "Identifying the labor market search and matching model: Some insights from structural estimation." | |
| Lorenza Rossi and Ester Faia “Unions Power, Collective Bargaining and Optimal Monetary Policy.” | |
| 14:00-15:30 | PARALLEL SESSION 3B |
| Torben Andersen “Business cycle dependent unemployment ensurance.” | |
| Herbert Brücker and Elke Jahn “Migration and wage setting: Reassessing the labor market effects of migration.” | |
| 15:30-16:00 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 16:00-17:00 | Keynote speech — Garey Ramey |
| 17:00-18:00 | EES members meeting |
| 19:00-21:00 | DINNER (Parkhotel Kieler Kaufmann) |
| Saturday, March 7th | |
| 08:30-12:45 | MORNING SESSIONS |
| 08:30-10:00 | PARALLEL SESSION 4A |
| Thijs van Rens and Jordi Galí “The vanishing pro-cyclicality of labor productivity and the great moderation.” | |
| Sven Schreiber “Explaining shifts in the unemployment rate with productivity slowdowns and accelerations: A co-breaking approach.” | |
| 08:30-10:00 | PARALLEL SESSION 4B |
| Manfred Jäger and Markus Demary "Monetary Policy Responses under Wage and Price Stickiness in Germany.” | |
| Rangan Gupta, Ruthira Naraidoo and Eric Schaling “Asymmetric Preferences in A New Keynesian Model of Unemployment.” | |
| 10:00-10:15 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:15-11:15 | Keynote speech — Jordi Galí |
| 11:15-12:45 | PARALLEL SESSION 5A |
| Keith Kuester and Philip Jung “The (Un)Importance of unemployment fluctuations for welfare.” | |
| Mewael Tesfaselassie and Eric Schaling “On determinacy and learnability in a New Keynesian model with unemployment.” | |
| 11:15-12:45 | PARALLEL SESSION 5B |
| Guido Ascari and Tiziano Ropele “Disinflation in a DSGE perspective: Sacrifice ratio or welfare gain ratio?” | |
| Liam Graham and Stephen Wright “Information, heterogeneity and market incompleteness.” | |
| 12:45-14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00-15:30 | AFTERNOON SESSIONS |
| 14:00-15:30 | PARALLEL SESSION 6A |
| Kai Christoffel, Keith Kuester and Tobias Linzert “The role of labor markets for euro area monetary policy.” | |
| Ester Faia, Wolfgang Lechthaler and Christian Merkl “Labor turnover costs, workers´ heterogeneity and optimal monetary policy.” | |
| 14:00-15:30 | PARALLEL SESSION 6B |
| Marcel Jansen and James Costain “Employment fluctuations with downward wage rigidity: The role of worker moral hazard.” | |
Markus Knell and Alfred Stiglbauer “The impact of reference norms on inflation persistence when wages are staggered.” |
For the program as PDF-File.