Location: TU Dresden, Faculty of Business and Economics, Festsaal,
Hülße Bau (North Wing, 3rd Floor),
Helmholtzstr. 10, 01069 Dresden
Thursday, February 29, 2024
10:20–10:30 Economic Policy and Political Economy
Chair: tba
10:30–11:20 Welcome Address: Marcel Thum (TU Dresden / ifo Dresden)
11:20–12:10 12:10–13:00 Rising waters, falling well-being: The effects of the 2013 East German flood
on subjective well-being
Katharina Kolb (MLU Halle)
Discussant: Andreas Knabe (OvGU Magbeburg)
Carbon pricing and the affordability of residential heating: A theoretical
model with endogenous technology choice
Milan Jakob Reda (Leipzig University)
Discussant: Alkis Blanz (Leipzig University)
Bright and green? A global view on density and the trade-off between
economic activity and green spaces for over 1000 cities
Konstantin Reisner (Leipzig University)
Discussant: Juan Felipe Santos Marquez (TU Dresden)
13:00–14:00 Lunch Break
Fiscal Policy
Chair: tba
14:00–14:50 14:50–15:40 Fiscal policy during the energy crisis
Alexandra Gutsch (IWH)
Discussant: Leonardo Urrutia (Leipzig University)
International evidence on the effect of government spending
Sanusi, Ibrahim Adedeji (FSU Jena)
Discussant: tba
15:40–16:10 Coffee Break
Macro
Chair: tba
16:10–17:00 17:00-17:50 18:30 Forecasting economic activity with a neural network in uncertain times:
Monte Carlo evidence and application to German GDP
Boris Kozyrev (IWH)
Discussant: tba
The macroeconomic effects of FX intervention
Karoline Offen (MLU Halle)
Discussant: Jantke de Boer (TU Dresden)
Dinner (Campus Bar & Restaurant, Hübnerstraße 13, 01069 Dresden)
Friday, March 1, 2024
Environmental Economics
Chair: tba
9:30-10:20 Leapfrogging telecommunication: Did the roll-out of mobile coverage
structurally change labor markets?
Marta Bernardi (TU Dresden)
Discussant: tba
10:20-11:10 11:10-12:00 Economic convergence in Germany: stylized facts about regional growth
Anna Solms (IWH)
Discussant: Julia Bobrzyk (Leipzig University)
Should I mail or should I go: Insights from a one-time all-postal election
Marius Kröper (TU Dresden)
Discussant: tba
12:00–13:00 Lunchtime
Regional Markets
Chair: tba
13:00-13:50 The unequal distribution of monetary policy shocks across regional housing
markets
Kevin P. Boge (MLU Halle)
Discussant: tba
13:50-14:40 Names, diversity and innovation
Anna Kremer (ifo Dresden)
Discussant: tba
14:40–15:10 Coffee Break
Financial Markets
Chair: tba
15:10–16:00 16:00-16:50 Firm subsidies, financial intermediation, and bank stability
Aleksandr Kazakov (IWH)
Discussant: Stefan Eichler (TU Dresden)
The art of timing: managing sudden stop risk in corporate credit markets
Lin Ma (IWH)
Discussant: tba
16:50 Concluding Remarks
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