Fifth ECB Annual Research Conference

Welcome

Luc Laeven, Director General Research, European Central Bank

This time it's different: the role of women's employment in the Great Lockdown

• Titan Alon, University of California San Diego
• Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University
• Jane Olmstead-Rumsey, Northwestern University
• Michèle Tertilt*, University of Mannheim

Discussant: Luigi Guiso, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance

Robots, trade and luddism: a sufficient statistic approach to optimal technology regulation

• Arnaud Costinot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Iván Werning*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussant: Jaume Ventura, Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional

Keynote lecture ‒ Perspectives on the evolution of financial systems

David S. Scharfstein, Harvard University

Chair: Isabel Schnabel, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank

End of day one

COVID-19 and the macroeconomic effects of costly disasters

• Sydney C. Ludvigson*, New York University
• Sai Ma, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
• Serena Ng, Columbia University

Discussant: Emanuel Moench, Deutsche Bundesbank

Shotgun weddings between fiscal and monetary policies

• Marco Bassetto*, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
• Thomas J. Sargent, New York University

Discussant: Christopher A. Sims, Princeton University

Jean Monnet Lecture ‒ Effective demand failures and the limits of monetary stabilisation policy during a pandemic

Michael Woodford, Columbia University

Chair: Philip R. Lane, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank

End of conference