Overview
4th Annual Workshop of Southern Ontario Macro Economics
(AWSOME Vol.4)
May 8th, 2023
Great Hall / Alumni Memorial Hall
Bringing together leading economists from universities across Southern Ontario
The Department of Economics is hosting the 4th Annual Workshop of Southern Ontario Macro Economists (AWSOME Vol. 4).
The workshop brings together leading economists from universities across Southern Ontario to discuss research on the latest developments in the study of macroeconomics.
Please register by sending an email to Zach Mahone at mahonez@mcmaster.ca
Program
| 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. | Welcome and breakfast |
| 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. | Quantitative Models George Stefanidis “Rate caps on revolving credit lines: Who benefits? Keyvan Eslami “The Art of Temporal Approximation: an Investigation into Numerical Solutions to Discrete and Continuous-Time Problems in Macroeconomics” |
| 10:30 -10:45 a.m. | Coffee break |
| 10:45 – 12:15 p.m. | International Macro Margarida Duarte “Aggregate Employment and the Rise of Services across Time and Countries” Pau Pujolas “Improving Applied General Equilibrium Models of Trade Liberalization with Better Elasticity Estimates” |
| 12:15 – 1:45 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:45 – 3:15 p.m. | Sovereign Debt Gaston Chaumont “The Roots of Self-fulfilling Debt Crises” Monica Tran-Xuan “Sovereign Default Risk and Cost of Redistribution” |
| 3:15 – 3:30 p.m. | Coffee break |
| 3:30 – 4:15 p.m.
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Productivity Session Betsy Caucutt “Child skill production: Accounting for parental and market-based time and good investments” |
| 4:30 p.m. | Refreshments |
Directions to Campus and Parking