Conference Program 2017
The Eighth Workshop on Theoretical and Experimental Macroeconomics, July 18 - 19, 2017
Conference location: Social and Behavioral Sciences Building, 7th floor, lecture hall N702.
Romain Baeriswyl (Swiss National Bank), “The Distortionary Effect of Monetary Policy: Credit Expansion vs. Lump-sum Transfers in the Lab”, joint with Camille Cornand.
Adrian Penalver (Banque de France), “A Quantitative Easing Experiment”, joint with Nobuyuki Hanaki, Eizo Akiyama, Yukihiko Funaki, and Ryuichiro Ishikawa.
Keynote address Xavier Gabaix (Harvard University), Behavioral “Macroeconomics via Sparse Dynamic Programming” and “A Behavioral New Keynesian Model”.
Steffen Ahrens, (Technical University of Berlin) “The Stabilizing Role of Forward Guidance: A Macro Experiment”, joint with Joep Lustenhouwer and Michele Tettamanzi.
Luba Petersen (Simon Fraser University), “Coordinating Expectations through Central Bank Projections”, joint with Fatemeh Mokhtarzadeh.
James Costain (Banco de España), “Costly Decisions and Sequential Bargaining”.
Gabriele Camera (University of Basel), “Endogenous Market Formation and Monetary Trade: An Experiment”, joint with Dror Goldberg and Avi Weiss.
Daniela Puzzello (Indiana University), “The Friedman Rule in the Laboratory”, joint with John Duffy.
Michael Weber (University of Chicago), “Salient Price Changes, Inflation Expectations and Household Behavior” joint with Francesco D'Acunto, Ulrike Malmendier and Juan Ospina.
Joy Buchanan (George Mason University), “The Behavioral Determinants of Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity”, joint with Daniel Houser.
Olivier Armentier (NY Fed) “Discount Window Stigma: An Experimental Investigation”, joint with Charles Holt.
David R. Munro (Middlebury College), “Dynamic Runs and Circuit Breakers: An Experiment”, joint with Jacopo Magnani.
Cathy M. Zhang (Purdue) “Competing Currencies in the Laboratory”, joint with Janet Hua Jiang.