Retreat 2019 – Macroeconomics of Inequality

Retreat 2019 “Schlosshotel Burgbrohl” from March, 25 to March, 27

SHEDULE

Day 1 Monday March, 25

09:00 Walking Tour

12:45 Lunch

14:45 Seminar Faculty

15:30 Break

15:45 Short Presentations

17:00 Student meets Supervisor Teams

19:00 General Assembly

Day 2 Tuesday March, 26

10:15 Job Market Presentations

11:15 Seminar

12:15 Short Presentations

13:15 Lunch

14:00 Job Market Presentations

16:30 Student meets Supervisors

19:00 Dinner

Day 3 Wednesday March, 27

09:00 Seminar

10:30 Break

11:15 Research Ideas

EVENTS

Short Presentations by 1^st year PhD

PhD	Topic	Duration
Maximilian Weiss	“News shocks in a HANK-model with illiquid assets”	30 min
Mariam Petrosyan	“Monetary and Fiscal Policy in Heterogeneous Agent Models”	30 min
Ana Sofia Pessoa	“Wealth Inequality and Financial Crises”	30 min
Ricardo Duque Gabriel	“Essays on Public Policy Interactions”	30 min

Job Market Presentations by 3^rd year PhD

PhD	Topic	Duration
Marek Ignaszak	Population Aging and Business Dynamism	60 min
Peng Liu	Social Capital, Trade Credit and Monetary Policy Transmissions	60 min
Lucas ter Steege	Income Risk and Endogenous Bankruptcy over the Business Cycle	60 min

Seminars of Faculty

Prof.	Topic	Duration
Pavel Brendler	“Income Inequality and Political Inequality”	45 min
Donghai Zhang	“Topics in Monetary Economics and Applied Macroeconomics”	45 min
Lingwei Wu	“Gender Inequality in Historial Context”	45 min
Moritz Kuhn	“Income and Wealth Inequality in America, 1949-2016”	45 min

Research Ideas by PhD and Professors