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

 

Heike Joebges, HTW Berlin

Michael Savage, ESRI

Ludger Schuknecht, German Ministry of Finance