KU Leuven, Ghent University and UC Louvain present: “Belgian Macroeconomics Workshop” Friday 15th March 2013 @ KU Leuven Location: HOG 03.101, Naamsestraat 69, 3000 Leuven, Map and Route Organisers: Julio Carrillo (UGent) Vivien Lewis (KUL) Luca Pensieroso (UCL) Program 9:00 – 9:10 Registration 9:10 – 9.15 Welcome Vivien Lewis (KU Leuven). Session 1 Chair: Luca Pensieroso (UC Louvain). 9:15 – 10:15 Giulia Piccillo (KU Leuven): “A diversity of agents in a New Keynesian model: monetary policy with technology and cost-push shocks”. Discussant: Raf Wouters (National Bank of Belgium). 10:15 – 11:15 Stefania Villa (KU Leuven): “Slow recoveries: the role of corporate deleveraging”, joint with Frank Smets (European Central Bank and KU Leuven). Discussant: Julio Carrillo (Ghent University). 11:15 – 11:45 Coffee Break 11:45 – 12:45 Eric Monnet (Ghent University) “Monetary policy without interest rates”. Discussant: Paul de Grauwe (KU Leuven). 1 12:45 - 14:00 Lunch Session 2 Chair: Julio Carrillo (Ghent University). 14:00 – 15:00 Tim Buyse (Ghent University): “Fiscal consolidation and public employment in general equilibrium. Expansionary for output and welfare?”, joint with Freddy Heylen (Ghent University). Discussant: Henri Sneessens (University of Luxembourg). 15:00 – 16:00 Mara Pirovano (KU Leuven and University of Antwerp): “International Financial Integration, Credit Frictions and Exchange Rate Regimes”. Discussant: Paul Reding (University of Namur). 16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break 16:30 – 17:30 Sara Salomone (Université catholique de Louvain): “Migration-induced Transfers of Norms. The case of Female Political Empowerment”, joint with Elisabetta Lodigiani (University of Milan). Discussant: Glenn Rayp (Ghent University). Each presenter has 45 minutes (including questions from the audience), and the each discussant has 15 minutes. Julio Carrillo Vivien Lewis Luca Pensieroso [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Tel.: 09264 7892 Tel.: 0472 945328 Tel.: 0104 73508 CES Secretariat [email protected] Tel.: 01632 6725 2 .