Annual MMF PhD Conference

Programme

11am	Registration and refreshments
11.15am	Opening remarks
11.30am	Session 1	Karthik Narayan, University of Oxford Macroeconomic Effects of Scheduled and Unscheduled Monetary Policy Surprises Thomas Lazarowicz, University College London Slowdowns and Local Demand Shocks: Evidence from Austerity in the UK
1pm	Lunch
2pm	Session 2	Kyung Woong Koh, Johns Hopkins University Regional Government Consumption and Investment Multipliers Lovisa Reiche, University of Oxford Inflation and the Gender Wage Gap The Role of Belief Frictions for Wage Bargaining
3.30pm	Break and refreshments
4pm	Session 3	Jack Green, Loughborough Business School Financial Frictions and the Distributional Consequences of Fiscal Policy Giuseppe Pagano Giorgianni, Sapienza University Rome Belief distortions and Disagreement about Inflation
5.30pm	Break and refreshments
5.45pm	Katie Ling and Simon Lloyd Applying to the Bank of England
7pm	Bank of England Drinks Reception and Conference Dinner

9.30am	Session 4	Matilde Angarita Serrano, University of Maryland Changing regimes: The role of fiscal rules in Monetary Policy Benedikt Kagerer, University of Cambridge Geopolitics and corporate credit risk: Evidence from EU-Russia conflict shocks
11am	Poster session and refreshments	Ryohei Oishi, University College London Simulation Pseudo-Bias in Modified Harmonic Mean Estimators of Marginal Likelihoods: Robustness and Bias Correction Xinxin Wei, University of Leeds Repercussions of Sino-US Trade War for Financial Markets : Mutually Assured Financial Destruction Md Nurul Islam Sohel, University of Kent Greenium or risk premium? Regional variation in sustainable corporate loan pricing Emily Barnes, University of Nottingham Latent MPC heterogeneity during COVID-19: a classifier-Lasso approach Richard Sparkes, University of St Andrews Measuring the Transmission of Central Bank Lending Operations via the Bank Lending Channel
12.30pm	Lunch
1.30pm	Session 5	Marcos Calvimonte, University of Glasgow A Diagnostic TANK Model for the Housing Market Matteo Cremonini, Bocconi University Wealth tax, entrepreneurship and market power
3pm	Break and refreshments
3.30pm	Session 6	Joe Marlow, University of Surrey Joint Bayesian Inference for DSGE Models Jinghui Yu, Lancaster University Global Technology Shocks and Labor Dynamics: Aggregate and Sectoral Evidence from OECD