The 2025 edition of the Padova Macro Talks will take place on 15-16 May 2025 in the Seminar Room of the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Padua (via del Santo 33, Padua).

Organizers
Giovanni Caggiano (University of Padua)
Efrem Castelnuovo (University of Padua)
Aristotelis Margaris (University of Padua)
Lorenzo Mori (University of Padua)
Giovanni Pellegrino (University of Padua)         

Attendance: People willing to attend are kindly requested to contact Efrem Castelnuovo via email efrem.castelnuovo@unipd.it by May 6 (hard deadline).

Full Programme: 15-16 May 2025

Day 1, May 15

9:15-09:30: Opening remarks
Paola Valbonesi, Head of Department, Department of Economics and Management, University of Padua

9:30-11:30: Session 1 - Morning
Chair: Efrem Castelnuovo (University of Padua)

9:30-10:10: Antonio M. Conti (Bank of Italy), Announcement and Implementation Effects of Central Bank Asset Purchases (with Marco Bernardini)

10:10-10:50: Lorenzo Mori (University of Padua), Has Globalization Changed the International Transmission of U.S. Monetary Policy? (with Maximilian Boeck)

10:50-11:30: Ivan Petrella (Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Turin, and Warwick Business School), TBA

11:30-12:00: Coffee break

12:00-13:00: Session 2 - Morning
Chair: Alessia Russo (University of Padua)

Keynote: Pablo Guerron Quintana (Boston College), The macroeconomic implications of the Gen-AI economy (with Tomoaki Mikami and Jaromir Nosal)

13:00-14:30: Lunch break

14:30-15:50: Session 3 - Afternoon
Chair: Giovanni Caggiano (University of Padua)

14:30-15:10: Riccardo Masolo (Catholic University, Milan), Monetary Policy Rules: the Market’s View (with Federico Di Pace and Giacomo Mangiante)

15:10-15:50: Jessica Piccolo (University of Padua), Households' Macroeconomic Beliefs: The Role of Education (with Alessia Russo, Eleonora Granziera, and Efrem Castelnuovo)

15:50-16:20: Coffee break

16:20-17:40: Session 4 - Afternoon
Chair: Aristotelis Margaris (University of Padua)

16:20-17:00: Giulia Gitti (Collegio Carlo Alberto and University of Turin), Nonlinearities in the Regional Phillips Curve with Labor Market Tightness

17:00-17:40: Sarah Lein (University of Basel), Granular Origins of Inflation (with Santiago Alvarez-Blaser, Raphael Auer, and Andrei Levchenko)

Adjourn

Dinner 7:30pm

Day 2, May 16

09:30-11:30: Session 5 - Morning
Chair: Lorenzo Mori (University of Padua)

9:30-10:10: Anna Rogantini-Picco (European Central Bank), Dynamic Credit Constraints: Theory and Evidence with Credit Lines (with Niklas Amberg, Tor Jacobson, and Vincenzo Quadrini)

10:10-10:50: Mathias Klein (Sveriges Riksbank), TBA

10:50-11:30: Filippo Ferroni (University of Bologna), Higher-Order Moment Inequality Restrictions for SVARs (with Philippe Andrade and Leonardo Melosi)

11:30-12:00: Coffee break

12:00-13:00: Session 6 - Morning
Chair: Giovanni Pellegrino (University of Padua)

Keynote: Antonella Trigari (Bocconi University), Temporary Layoffs, Loss-of-Recall, and Cyclical Unemployment Dynamics (with Marc Gertler and Christopher Huckfeldt)

13:00-14:30: Lunch break

14:30-15:50: Session 7 - Afternoon
Chair: Efrem Castelnuovo (University of Padua)

14:30-15:10: Alaïs Martin-Baillon (NYU Abu Dhabi), “Do firm heterogeneous expectations drive misallocation?"

15:10-15:50: Luciana Juvenal (Inter American Development Bank), The Pass-through of Currency Risk Premia (with Paulo Santos Monteiro)

15:50-16:20: Coffee break

16:20-17:20: Session 8 - Afternoon
Chair: Efrem Castelnuovo (University of Padua)

Keynote: Bruce Preston (University of New South Wales), How do we learn about the long run?

End of the workshop

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