08.15 - 09.15
Registration
09.30 - 11.00
Session 1
Inequality and Financialization (Schmoller Room)
Chair: Camille Logeay, HTW Berlin
Debt shift, financial development and income inequality in Europe, Dirk Bezemer and Anna Samarina, University of Groningen
Austerity, inequality, and private debt overhang, Mathias Klein, DIW Berlin and Roland Winkler, TU Dortmund University
Sustainability-oriented future EU funding: A European net wealth tax, Alexander Krenek, and Margit Schratzenstaller, Austrian Institute of Economic Research
Discussant: Henri Sterdyniak, OFCE
09.30 - 11.00
Session 2
Inequality and Financialization (Schumpeter Room)
Chair: Marek Dabrowski, CASE
Who are the top 1 percent earners in Europe?, Oliver Denk, OECD
Inequality in EU crisis countries: Identifying the Impacts of automatic stabilisers and discretionary policy, Tim Callan, Karina Doorley, and Michael Savage, ESRI, Dublin
New approaches to the study of long term non-employment duration via survival analysis: Italy, Germany and Spain, B. Contini, Università di Torino & Collegio Carlo Alberto, J. I. Garcia Perez, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, T. Pusch, Hans-Boeckler Stiftung, Düsseldorf, Roberto Quaranta, Collegio Carlo Alberto
Discussant: Gerdien Meijerink, CPB
09:30 - 11:00
Session 3
Growth and inequality: modeling (Pigou Room)
Chair: Elena Giarda, PROMETEIA
Inequality and Imbalances: an open-economy agent-based model, Alberto Cardaci, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milan, and Complexity Lab in Economics, Francesco Saraceno, OFCE-SciencesPo, LUISS-SEP
Learning by doing, inequality, and sustained growth: A middle-class perspective,Alain Desdoigts, IEDES université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and Fernando Jaramillo, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota
Discussant: Marius Clemens, DIW Berlin
11.20- 12.50
Session 4
Monetary policy and inequality
Chair: Klaus-Jürgen Gern, IfW (Schmoller Room)
Inequality and Central Banks, Gregory Thwaites et al., Bank of England
The effect of monetary policy shocks on inequality, Davide Furceri, Prakash Loungani and Aleksandra Zdzienicka, IMF
Discussant: Malte Rieth, DIW Berlin
11.20 - 12.50
Session 5
Inequality and social policy (Schumpeter Room)
Chair: Catherine Mathieu, OFCE
Treatment effects of Riester participation along the wealth distribution: An instrumental quantile regression analysis, Dorothee Ihle, University of Muenster
Unemployment Insurance Union, Guillaume Claveres, Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne, Marius Clemens, DIW Berlin
Reforming the Liberal Welfare State -International Shocks, Unemployment and Income Shares, Hassan Molana, University of Dundee, Catia Montagna, University of Aberdeen, George E. Onwordi, University of Aberdeen
Discussant: Paolo Onofri, PROMETEIA
11.20 - 12.50
Session 6
Taxation and Labour markets (Pigou Room)
Chair: Gerdien Meijerink, CPB
Distributional and employment effects of labor tax changes: Finnish evidence over the period 1996-2008, Markku Lehmus, ETLA
Shifting priorities in EU tax policies: A stock-taking exercise over three decades, Sarah Godar and Achim Truger, Berlin School of Economics and Law Income
Inequalities and employment patterns in Europe before and after the Great Recession, Carlos Vacas-Soriano and Enrique Fernández-Macías, Eurofound
Discussant: Margit Schratzenstaller, WIFO
14.00 - 16.00
Session 7
Macroeconomic consequences of inequality (Schumpeter Room)
Chair: Christoph Badelt, WIFO
Inclusive growth framework, Alexei Kireyev and Jingyang Cheng, IMF
Savings glut without saving: retirement saving and the interest rate decline in the United States between 1984 and 2013, Bjoern O. Meyer, University of Rome - Tor Vergata
How does income inequality influence economic growth in Germany? Marius Clemens, Ferdinand Fichtner, Stefan Gebauer, Simon Junker, and Konstantin A. Kholodilin, DIW Berlin
Is it a trade-off between global and national income inequality? Marek Dabrowski, CASE, Bruegel
Discussant: Clemens Kool, CPB and Utrecht University
14.00 - 16.00
Session 8
Inequality, poverty, and mobility (Schmoller Room)
Chair: Mathias Klein, DIW Berlin
The impact of fiscal policy and internal migration on regional growth and convergence in Germany, Katharina Weddige-Haaf, Utrecht University, Clemens Kool, CPB and Utrecht University
From rags to riches, from riches to rags: Inter-generational mobility in Europe before and after the Great Recession, Elizabeth Jane Casabianca and Elena Giarda, Prometeia
Absolute poverty, food and housing, Luigi Campiglio, Università Cattolica del S. Cuore di Milano
Evolutions in consumption inequality and poverty in Greece: the impact of the crisis and austerity policies, Georgia Kaplanoglou, Vassilis T. Rapanos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Academy of Athens
Discussants: Guido Neidhöfer (FU Berlin), Charlotte Bartels (DIW), Patrick Burauel (FU Berlin)
14.00 - 16.00
Session 9
Labour market issues (Pigou Room)
Chair: Stefania Tomasini, PROMETEIA
Labour market effects of wage inequality and skill-biased technical change in Germany, Christian Hutter, IAB, Enzo Weber, IAB, Universität Regensburg
Opportunities and limits of rebalancing the euro area via wages policies: Theoretical considerations and empirical illustrations for the case of Germany, Eckhard Hein and Achim Truger, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Institute for International Political Economy Berlin (IPE)
Could a wage formula prevent excessive current account imbalances in euro area countries? A study on wage costs and profit developments in peripheral countries, Camille Logeay and Heike Joebges, HTW Berlin
Discussant: Markku Lehmus, ETLA
16.30 - 18.00
Round Table (Schumpeter Room)
Chair: Marcel Fratzscher, DIW Berlin