Athens Macroeconomics Workshop 2026

Thursday, 10th, September 2026
• 9:00-9:30
Registration and welcome

Session A:
• 9:30-10:15

Raffaele Rossi (University of Birmingham) “The Effects of Bad Health in Frictional Labour Market”
joint with Alessandro Di Nola (University of Birmingham) and Haomin Wang (Cardiff University)
• 10:15-11:00
Brigitte Hochmuth (University of Copenhagen and CEPR) “Fiscal Policy under Labor Shortages”
joint with Gregor Boehl (University of Magdeburg)
• 11:00-11:30
Coffee break
• 11:30-12:30
Keynote Talk: Tommaso Monacelli
(Bocconi University, IGIER and CEPR)
“Supply Chain Uncertainty, Energy Prices and Inflation”
joint with A. Merendino (ECB and Bocconi University)

Session B:
12:30-13:15
Anna Rogantini Picco (ECB and CEPR) “Fiscal threats to price stability when households are not Ricardian” joint with Stephane Dupraz (Banque de France)
13:15-14:00
Hannah Seidl (DIW Berlin) “Sectoral Spending, Household Heterogeneity, and Fiscal Multipliers”
joint with Alina Ermolaeva (DIW Berlin)
14:00-15:00
Lunch break

Session C:
15:00-15:45
Elisabeth Proehl (University of Amsterdam) “A Global Solution Method for HACT Models with Aggregate Risk” joint with Niklas Bonnmann (Free University Amsterdam)
15:45-16:30
Romanos Priftis (European Central Bank) “Debt Maturity and Government Spending Multipliers” joint with Morteza Ghomi (Banco de Espana), Jochen Mankart (Bundesbank/National Bank of Slovakia), Rigas Oikonomou (Universite Catholiqe de Louvain)
19:00
Dinner
Thursday, 11th, September 2026
Session A:
10:00-10:45
Ana Gomes Figueiredo (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) “Self-Insurance in Turbulent Labor Markets” joint with Isaac Baley (UPF, CREI, BSE, CEPR), Cristiano Mantovani (U of Melbourne), Ali Sepahsalari (U of Bristol)
•10:45-11:30
Andri Chassampouli (University of Cyprus) “The First Precarious Step: Entry Jobs and Labor Market Prospects for New Entrants” joint with Ismael Galvez Iniesta, Thanasis Geormichalos, Ioannis Kospentaris
11:30-12:00
Coffee break
12:00-13:00
Keynote Talk: Mathias Trabandt
(Goethe University Frankfurt)
“Monetary Policy and Inflation Scares”
joint with C. Erceg (IMF), J. Linde (IMF and CEPR)
•13:00-13:45
Lunch break

Session B:
13:45-14:30
Petros Varthalitis (Athens University of Economics and Business) “Global intangible capital and inequality: A two country heterogeneous agents framework” joint with Spyros Lazarakis.
14:30-15:15
Dimitris Papageorgiou (Bank of Greece) “To be or not to be in the Banking Union” joint with Harris Dellas.
15:15-16:00
Lunch break

Session C:
•16:00-16:45
Andrej Mijakovic (University of Mannheim) “Income Inequality and the Rise of Risky Capital”
•16:45-17:30
Alina Bartscher (Frankfurt School) “Causal Effects of Interest Rate Beliefs on Firm Decisions and their Aggregate Implications” joint with Georg Duernecker, Johannes Goensch, and Nils Wehrhöfer
•17:30
Farewell Drinks

End of workshop 

Organizers

Ioannis Kospentaris

(Athens University of Economics and Business)

Petros Varthalitis 

(Athens University of Economics and Business)

Spyridon Lazarakis

(Lancaster University)

Contacts

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Coordinator for the Workshop/ Research Assistant for the Project

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