Thursday 2 June
08:45-09:20
Amphithéâtre Jacques Chapsal
Chair: Beatrice Weder di Mauro (President, CEPR)
Keynote speech: Europe Refocused
François Villeroy de Galhau (Governor, Banque de France)
09:20-10:30
Amphithéâtre Jacques Chapsal
EEA Panel: Europe Refocused
Chair: Jean Pisani-Ferry (Bruegel, EUI, PIIE, Sciences Po and CEPR)
Panellists:
Agnès Bénassy Quéré (Ministry of Economy and Finance, France, PSE and CEPR)
Francesco Giavazzi (Bocconi University and CEPR)
Luis Garicano (Renew Europe and CEPR)
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:45
Amphithéâtre Jacques Chapsal
European Economic Architecture: Macro Session
Chair: Jean Pisani-Ferry (Bruegel, EUI, PIIE, Sciences Po and CEPR)
Macroeconomic Policy Choices at the Current Juncture based on Fiscal policy in the age of Covid: Does it ‘get in all of the cracks’
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas (IMF and CEPR), with Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Veronika Penciakova, and Nick Sander
Amphithéâtre Émile Boutmy
POLECON: Identity, Norms, Race and Discrimination
Chair: Helios Herrera (University of Warwick and CEPR)
Race, Representation and Local Governments in the US South: the Effect of the Voting Rights Act
Cecilia Testa (University of Nottingham)
A Political Economy of Social Discrimination
Stephane Wolton (LSE and CEPR), with Torun Dewan
Amphithéâtre LB/AS
Macroeconomics and Growth: On the optimal design of the welfare state
Chair: Franklin Allen (Imperial College London and CEPR)
Rethinking the Welfare State
Nezih Guner (UAB, BSE and CEPR)
On the optimal design of transfers and income-tax progressivity
Oliko Vardishvili (Yale University), with Axelle Ferriere, Philipp Grübener and Gaston Navarro
11:45-12:45
Amphithéâtre Jacques Chapsal
European Economic Architecture: “Objective 1992” thirty years after: The ever-unfinished single market
Chair: Jean Pisani-Ferry (Bruegel, EUI, PIIE, Sciences Po and CEPR)
Borders within Europe
Jaume Ventura (CREI, UPF, BSE and CEPR)
The economics of migration to the EU
Jonathan Portes (King's College London and UK in a Changing Europe)
Amphithéâtre Émile Boutmy
POLECON: Identity, Norms, Race and Discrimination
Chair: Helios Herrera (University of Warwick and CEPR)
Control through Empowerment: Evidence from Nation-Building in Soviet Central Asia
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Paris School of Economics and CEPR), with Paul Castañeda Dower and Andrei Markevich
Visual Stereotypes in News Media
Carlo Schwarz (Bocconi University and CEPR), with Elliott Ash, Ruben Durante and Mariia Grebenshchikova
Amphithéâtre LB/AS
Macroeconomics and Growth: Adjustments of workers and firms to shocks
Chair: Franklin Allen (Imperial College London and CEPR)
Induced Automation: Evidence from Firm-level Patent Data
David Hémous (University of Zurich and CEPR), with Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Morten Olsen and Carlo Zanella
Escaping the Losses from Trade: The Impact of Heterogeneity on Skill Acquisition
Axelle Ferriere (Paris School of Economics and CEPR), with Gaston Navarro and Ricardo Reyes-Heroles
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00
Amphithéâtre Jacques Chapsal
Lessons from the Pandemic Crisis
Chair: Charles Wyplosz (The Graduate Institute, Geneva and CEPR)
Keynote speech: Pandemic Crisis, Great Supply Chain Disruption, and Inflation
Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan (University of Maryland and CEPR)
Keynote speech: Which policies for vaccine innovation and delivery in Europe?
Mathias Dewatripont (ULB and CEPR)
15:00-16:00
Amphithéâtre Jacques Chapsal
Fintech RPN
Chair: Dirk Niepelt (University of Bern and CEPR)
Digital Platforms, Payments, and Information
Cyril Monnet (University of Bern), with Peter Hoffman, and Toni Ahnert
Blockchain Analysis of the Bitcoin Market
Igor Makarov (LSE), with Antoinette Schoar
Amphithéâtre Émile Boutmy
Policies for peace RPN: The Economics of Popular Uprisings
Chair: Dominic Rohner (HEC Lausanne and CEPR)
Going Viral: Propaganda, Persuasion and Polarization in 1932 Hamburg
Bruno Caprettini (University of Zurich), with Hans-Joachim Voth, Marcel Caessmann, and David Yanagizawa-Drott
Breaking the Echo Chamber: Nonviolent Protest and Police Violence on Twitter
Hannes Mueller (IAE(CSIC), BSE and CEPR), with Luis Menendez, Daniel Montolio, and Francesco Slataper
Amphithéâtre LB/AS
International Trade
Chair: Gianmarco Ottaviano (Bocconi University and CEPR)
The Effects of Climate Change on Labor and Capital Reallocation
Paula Bustos (CEMFI and CEPR), with Christoph Albert, and Jacopo Ponticelli
Unravelling Deep Integration: Local Labour Market Effects of the Brexit Vote
Beata Javorcik (EBRD and CEPR), with Benjamin Kett, Katherine Stapleton, and Layla O’Kane
16:00-17:00
Amphithéâtre Jacques Chapsal
International Macroeconomics and Finance
Chair: Hélène Rey (London Business School and CEPR)
Global Real Rates
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas (IMF and CEPR)
Reply: Ricardo Reis (LSE and CEPR)
Global realignment in financial market dynamics: Evidence from ETF networks
Loriana Pelizzon (SAFE, Goethe University Frankfurt and CEPR), with Monica Billio, Andrew W. Lo, Mila Getmansky Sherman, and Abalfazl Zareei
Reply: Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan (University of Maryland and CEPR)
Amphithéâtre Émile Boutmy
Policies for peace RPN: The Economics of Popular Uprisings
Chair: Dominic Rohner (HEC Lausanne and CEPR)
The Web of Power: How Elite Networks Shaped War and China
Ruixue Jia (LSE and CEPR), with Ying Bai and Jiaojiao Yang
Hidden Hostility: Donor Attention and Political Violence
Dominic Rohner (HEC Lausanne and CEPR), with Siwan Anderson, Patrick Francois, and Rogerio Santarrosa
Social Networks, Peer Effects, and Protest Participation
Ruben Enikolopov (UPF, Barcelona School of Economics and CEPR), with Maria Petrova, Aleksey Makarin, and Leonid Polishchuk
Amphithéâtre LB/AS
International Trade
Chair: Beata Javorcik (EBRD and CEPR)
Dream jobs in a globalized economy: wage dynamics and international experience
Gianmarco Ottaviano (Bocconi University and CEPR), with Giordano Mion, and Luca David Opromolla
The Long-Term Effects of Industrial Policy
Andrei Levchenko (University of Michigan and CEPR), with Jaedo Choi
17:00-17:15 Coffee Break
17:15-18:30
Amphithéâtre Jacques Chapsal
In honour of Richard Portes: Recorded messages by Mario Draghi and Christine Lagarde
Chair: Beatrice Weder di Mauro (President, CEPR)
Panel on Systemic Risk: Where is the next financial crisis coming from?
Chair: Richard Portes (London Business School and CEPR)
Panellists:
Pablo Hernandez de Cos (Governor, Banco de España)
Claudia Buch (Deutsche Bundesbank and CEPR)
Stephen Cecchetti (Brandeis University and CEPR)
18:30-20:00 Drinks Reception - Sciences Po Gardens at 27 Rue Saint-Guillaume
