Alessio Moro

Friday May 18th

10:00 Annalisa Aleati (UniCredit Foundation) – Introduction

10.10-13.20    Morning session

Chair: Fabio Cerina (University of Cagliari)

10:10 Elisa Giannone (Penn State)
The Large Consequences of a Small Shock
With Chanont Banternghansa (Analysis Group) and Sharon Traiberman (New York University)

11:05 Guillermo Lagarda (Inter-American Development Bank)
Robots Are Us: Some Economics of Human Replacement
With Seth G. Benzell (MIT), Laurence J. Kotlikoff (Boston University), Jeffrey D. Sachs (Columbia)

12:00 Coffee Break

12:25 Nir Jaimovich (University of Zurich and CEPR)
Tale of Two Workers: The Macroeconomics of Automation
With Itay Saporta-Eksten (Tel Aviv University & UCL ), Henry Siu (University of British Columbia & NBER), Yaniv Yedid-Levi (Tiomkin School of Economics)

13:20 Lunch

15:00-16:50    Afternoon session

Chair: Vincenzo Merella (University of Cagliari)

15:00 Eric Mengus (HEC Paris)
Labor Market Polarization and The Great Divergence: Theory and Evidence
With Donald R. Davis (Columbia) and Tomasz Michalski (HEC Paris)

15:55 Elisa Dienesch (Sciences Po Aix)
Spatial Polarization
With Fabio Cerina (Cagliari), Alessio Moro (Cagliari) and Michelle Rendall (Monash)

16:50 Coffe Break

17:10 Clara Santamaria (CEMFI and Universidad Carlos III)
Small Teams in Big Cities: Inequality, City Size, and the Organization of Production


Saturday May 19th

09:45-13:00

Chair: Alessio Moro (University of Cagliari)

09:45 Claudio Michelacci (EIEF and CEPR)
The Extensive Margin of Aggregate Consumption Demand
With Luigi Paciello (EIEF and CEPR) and Andrea Pozzi (EIEF and CEPR)

10:40 Joe Kaboski (Notre Dame and NBER)
The Natural Rate of Structural Change
With Marti Mestieri (Northwestern University), Francisco Buera (Washington University in St. Louis), Danny O'Connor (University of Notre Dame)

11:35 Coffee Break

12:05 Georg Duernecker (University of Munich, CEPR and IZA)
Quantity Measurement, Balanced Growth, and Welfare in Multi–Sector Growth Models
With Berthold Herrendorf (Arizona State University) and Akos Valentinyi (University of Manchester, CERS–HAS, and CEPR)

13:00 Lunch

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Host: University of Cagliari.

 

Organizers: Alessio Moro, University of Cagliari;

Fabio Cerina, University of Cagliari;

Vincenzo Merella, University of Cagliari;

Funding bodies: Regione Autonoma della Sardegna, Legge Regionale 7.

                           Department of Economics and Business, University of Cagliari

                           UniCredit Foundation.