Venue: Intercontinental İstanbul Hotel
Agenda
09:00 - 09:30 Welcome Coffee
09:30 - 10:00 Opening Remarks
Hasan Akçakayalıoğlu, Member of the Board of Directors, TÜSİAD
10:00 - 10:30 KeynoteSpeech
FinnKydland, Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance (LAEF), University of California, Santa Barbara
10:30 - 11:30 Kartik Athreya, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
“Labor Market Upheaval, Default Regulations, and Consumer Debt”, with Juan Sanchez (Fed St. Louis), Xuan Tam (City University of Hong Kong), and Eric Young (University of Virginia)
Discussant: Ayşe Kabukçuoğlu, Koç University
11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:45 Jeffrey Campbell, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago “Quantitative Easing in Joseph's Egypt with Keynesian Producers”
Discussant: Refet Gürkaynak, Bilkent University
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Oscar Jorda, University of California, Davis
“Sovereigns versus Banks: Credit, Crises, and Consequences”, with Moritz Schularick (University of Bonn), and Alan M. Taylor (UC-Davis)
Discussant: Attila Ratfai, CEU
15:00 - 16:00 Gerhard Glomm, Indiana University
“Fiscal Austerity Measures: Spending Cuts vs. Tax Increases”, with Juergen Jung (Towson University) and Chung Tran (ANU)
Discussant: Marek Kapicka, University of California Santa Barbara