Panels

Monday December 11, 2023

Time: 14:00-15:00
Challenges of Recent Inflation

Chair: Silvana Tenreyro, London School of Economics

Speakers:

  • Cristina Arellano, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
  • Ivan Werning, MIT
Time: 14:00-15:00
Combating Poverty

Chair: Carmen Reinhart, Harvard University

Speakers

  • Steven Durlauf, Steans Professor in Educational Policy and the Director of the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.
  • Charles Kenny, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
  • Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva, Global Director, Poverty and Equity, The World Bank
Time: 16:45-17:45
Inflation Panel

Speakers

  • Justin Bloesch (Cornell University), Do Cost of Living Shocks Pass Through into Wages?
  • Mike Konczal (Roosevelt Institute), The Debate Over Post-Pandemic Inflation
  • Ivan Werning (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Inflation is Conflict

Tuesday December 12, 2023

Time: 12:10-13:10
Growth Divergence and Inequality

Chair: Kunal Sen, UNU-WIDER

Speakers:

  • Karishma Banga, Institute for Development Studies (IDS)
  • Yoseph Getachew, University of Pretoria
  • Carlos Gradin, UNU-WIDER
  • Eric Werker, Simon Fraser University
Time: 12:10-13:10
Networks Panel

Speakers:

  • Stefano Battiston (University of Zurich)
  • Chaun Du (Bank of England)
  • Margit Reischer (Georgetown University)

Discussant: Levent Altinoglu (Federal Reserve Board)

Wednesday December 13, 2023

Time: 11:00-12:00
Sovereign Debt Panel

Speakers:

  • Kevin Gallagher (Boston University)
  • Jayati Ghosh (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  • Martin Guzman (Columbia University)
  • Daniel Munevar (UNCTAD)

Discussant: Cristian Cuevas (Universidad de los Andes, Chile)

Time: 14:00-15:00
Supply Chain Resilience

Chair: Paola Conconi, University of Oxford, CEPR, CESifo, CEP

Speakers:

  • Pol Antras, Harvard University, NBER, CEPR, CESifo
  • Thierry Mayer, Sciences Po, CEPR
  • Gene Grossman, (Princeton University)

Thursday December 14, 2023

Time: 11:00-12:00
New Technologies, Appropriate Technology, and Development

Chair: Eric Verhoogen, Columbia

Speakers:

  • Diego Comin, Dartmouth
  • Xiaolan Fu, Oxford University
  • Juan Carlos Hallak, CONICET-IIEP, Universidad de Buenos Aires
  • Tavneet Suri, MIT
Time: 12:10-13:10
Inequality and Violence

Chair:  Santiago Tobón, Universidad EAFIT

Speakers:

  • Patricia Justino, UNU-WIDER
  • Anke Hoeffler, Konstanz
  • Santiago Tobón, Universidad EAFIT

Friday 15 December, 2023

Time: 11:00-12:00
Methodology in Economic Analysis

Chair: Eric Maskin, Harvard

Speakers:

  • Wendy Carlin, University College London and CEPR
  • Raj Chetty, Harvard
  • Andreu Mas-Colell, Pompeu Fabra