The Micro and Macro of Inequality Workshop

Wednesday 22 May 2019

The Department is pleased to announce the Mirco and Macro of Inequality workshop organised by Federico Rossi, Pablo Beker, Christine Braun and Roberto Pancrazi.

The program is as follows:

Time
9.00 - 9.40	Wealth Taxes and Inequality Nicola Borri and Pietro Reichlin
9.40 - 10.20	Use It Or Lose It: Efficiency Gains from Wealth Taxation Fatih Guvenen, Gueorgui Kambourov, Burhan Kuruscu, Sergio Ocampo, Daphne Chen
10.20 - 10.40	Break
10.40 - 11.20	Permanent-Income Inequality Brant Abbott and Giovanni Gallipoli
11.20 - 12.00	Borrowing Constraints, Search, and Life-Cycle Inequality Benjamin Griffy
12.00 - 13.40	Lunch at Scarman
13.40 - 14.20	Performance-based contracts, Income Inequality and Wealth Inequality Pablo Beker, Roberto Pancrazi and Carlo Perroni
14.20 - 15.20	Sources of Earnings Growth Heterogeneity Fatih Karahan, Serder Ozkan and Jae Song
15:20-15:40	Break
15:420 - 16:20	Investment, heterogeneity, inattention and the dynamic effects of monetary policy shocks Adrien Auclert, Matthew Rognlie, Ludwig Straub
16:20 - 17:20	Keynote - Incidence and Propagation of Shocks in HANK Gianluca Violante
18.30	Dinner at Scarman

Time
9.00 – 9.40	Markups and Inequality Corina Boar and Virgiliu Midrigan
9.40 – 10.20	Escaping the Losses from Trade: The Impact of Heterogeneity on Skill Acquisition Axelle Ferriere, Gaston Navarro, Ricardo Reyes-Heroles
10.20 – 10.40	Break
10.40 - 11.20	Housing Bubbles and Wealth Inequality. Evidence from Spain Clara Martinez - Toledano
11.20 - 12.20	Keynote - Uneven Growth: Automation's Impact on Income and Wealth Inequality Benjamin Moll
12.30 - 13.30	Lunch at Scarman

This event is open to Faculty members and MRes/PhD students from the Department of Economics.

Places are limited so early booking is recommended. For registration enquiries, please contact Margaret Nash (M.J.Nash@warwick.ac.uk)