Wednesday 17th , September 2025 

• 9:30 – 10:00

Registration and welcome

• 10:00 – 11:30

Chair: Claire Economidou (University of Piraeus)

George Nikolakoudis (Princeton University) “Quick Fixing: Near-Rationality in Consumption and Savings Behavior” (with Peter Andre, Joel Flynn, and Karthik Sastry)

Ioannis Kospentaris(Athens University of Economics and Business) “How Much Work Experience Do You Need to Get Your First Job? The macroeconomic implications of bias against labor market entrants” (with Shisham Adhikari, Thanasis Geromichalos and Ates Gursoy)

• 11:30 -12:00

Coffee break

• 12:00 – 13:00

Keynote Talk:

Chair: Plutarchos Sakellaris (Athens University of Economics and Business)

Benjamin Born (University of Bonn) “A Temporary VAT Cut as Unconventional Fiscal Policy”

• 13:00 – 14:00

Lunch Break

• 14:00 – 16:15

Chair: Dimitris Papageorgiou (Bank of Greece)

Xiaoshan Chen (University of Durham) Title: “Public debt and inflation in a monetary union” (with Spyros Lazarakis and Petros Varthalitis)

Jonathan Wolff (Miami University) Title: “Debt, uncertainty and growth”

Thomas Dengler (Deutsche Bundesbank, Berlin School of Economics, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin ) Title: “Labor Market Frictions and Unemployment Risk in a Monetary Union”