Fifth ECB Annual Research Conference
3 and 4 September 2020
Video conference
This is the fifth edition of the Annual Research Conference, the ECB’s flagship research event. Held this year as a video conference, the event features keynote lectures, on financial and monetary economics, as well as paper presentations from different fields of economics relevant for a central bank.
Programme
Speakers* An asterisk indicates the author presenting the relevant paper.
- 15:00
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Welcome
Luc Laeven, Director General Research, European Central Bank
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This time it's different: the role of women's employment in the Great Lockdown
- Titan Alon, University of California San Diego
- Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University
- Jane Olmstead-Rumsey, Northwestern University
- Michèle Tertilt*, University of Mannheim
Discussant: Luigi Guiso, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
- 16:00
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Robots, trade and luddism: a sufficient statistic approach to optimal technology regulation
- Arnaud Costinot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Iván Werning*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Discussant: Jaume Ventura, Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional
- 17:00
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Keynote lecture ‒ Perspectives on the evolution of financial systems
David S. Scharfstein, Harvard University
Chair: Isabel Schnabel, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank
- 18:00
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End of day one
- 15:00
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COVID-19 and the macroeconomic effects of costly disasters
- Sydney C. Ludvigson*, New York University
- Sai Ma, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
- Serena Ng, Columbia University
Discussant: Emanuel Moench, Deutsche Bundesbank
- 16:00
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Shotgun weddings between fiscal and monetary policies
- Marco Bassetto*, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
- Thomas J. Sargent, New York University
Discussant: Christopher A. Sims, Princeton University
- 17:00
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Jean Monnet Lecture ‒ Effective demand failures and the limits of monetary stabilisation policy during a pandemic
Michael Woodford, Columbia University
Chair: Philip R. Lane, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank
- 18:00
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End of conference
This programme may be subject to change without notice.
General information
Organising committee
Luc Laeven, Marie Hoerova, Bartosz Maćkowiak, Alberto Martin, Alexander Popov (all European Central Bank)
Contact
- Bartosz Maćkowiak Bartosz.Mackowiak@ecb.europa.eu
- Sabine Wiedemann ARConference@ecb.europa.eu