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Conference on Unemployment

09 Jun. 2007

9.00

The Banco de Portugal Conference on Unemployment will be held in Algarve, June 9-10, 2007. The Conference aims at bringing together economists to discuss research on Labour Markets and Unemployment.

The Organizer Committee for the Conference is composed by Mário Centeno, Álvaro Novo and Pedro Portugal.

The Conference venue is the Hotel da Quinta do Lago, located near Faro and the Reserva Natural da Ria Formosa.

Programme


Friday, June 8
19.30 – 21.00	Dinner


Saturday, June 9
09.15 – 09.30	Opening address
09.30 – 10.30	Moral Hazard vs. Liquidity in Unemployment Insurance Raj Chetty (University of California, Berkeley) Discussant: Juan F. Jimeno (Banco de España)
10.30 – 11.30	Cash-on-Hand and Competing Models of Intertemporal Behavior: New Evidence from the Labor Market David Card (University of California, Berkeley) Raj Chetty (University of California, Berkeley) Andrea Weber (University of California, Berkeley) Discussant: Olympia Bover (Banco de España)
11.30 – 11.45	Coffee
11.45 - 12.45	Identifying Unemployment Insurance Income Effects with a Quasi-Natural Experiment Mário Centeno (Banco de Portugal) Álvaro Novo (Banco de Portugal) Discussant: Patricia Anderson (Dartmouth College)
13.00 – 14.00	Lunch
14.30 - 15.30	The Unemployment Volatility Puzzle: Is Wage Stickiness the Answer? Christopher Pissarides (London School of Economics) Discussant: António Antunes (Banco de Portugal)
15.30 – 16.30	A Positive Analysis of Targeted Employment Protection Legislation Juan J. Dolado (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Marcel Jansen (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Juan F. Jimeno (Banco de España) Discussant: Ana Rute Cardoso (IZA)
16.30 – 16.45	Coffee
16.45 – 17.45	The Quality of Labor Relations and Unemployment Olivier Blanchard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Thomas Philippon (New York University) Discussant: Fabiano Schivardi (Università di Cagliari)
20.00 – 21.30	Dinner


Saturday, June 10
09.00 – 10.00	U.S. Unemployment Duration: Has Long Become Longer or Short Become Shorter? Juliana Guimarães (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco) José A. F. Machado (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) Pedro Portugal (Banco de Portugal) Discussant: Henry Farber (Princeton University)
10.00 – 11.00	How to Help Unemployed Find Jobs Quickly: Experimental Evidence from a Mandatory Activation Program Brian Krogh Graversen (The Danish National Institute of Social Research) Jan C. van Ours (Tilburg University) Discussant: Andrea Weber (University of California, Berkeley)
11.00 – 11.15	Coffee
11.15 – 12.15	Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Unemployment Insurance from New York State Bruce D. Meyer (University of Chicago) Wallace K. C. Mok (Northwestern University) Discussant: Manuel Arellano (CEMFI)
12.30 – 13.30	Lunch

Participants

Patricia Anderson (Dartmouth College)

António Antunes (Banco de Portugal)

Manuel Arellano (CEMFI)

Olivier Blanchard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Olympia Bover (Banco de España)

Ana Rute Cardoso (IZA)

Anabela Carneiro (Universidade do Porto)

Mário Centeno (Banco de Portugal)

Raj Chetty (University of California, Berkeley)

Juan J. Dolado (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

João Ejarque (University of Essex)

Henry Farber (Princeton University)

Francesco Franco (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Keiko Honjo (International Monetary Fund)

Juan F. Jimeno (Banco de España)

Francisco Lima (Instituto Superior Técnico e CEG-IST)

José A. F. Machado (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Pedro Martins (Queen Mary, University of London)

António Menezes (Universidade dos Açores)

Bruce D. Meyer (University of Chicago)

Álvaro Novo (Banco de Portugal)

Jan C. van Ours (Tilburg University)

Thomas Philippon (New York University)

Christopher Pissarides (London School of Economics)

Pedro Portugal (Banco de Portugal)

Fabiano Schivardi (Università di Cagliari)

Roberto Torrini (Banca d'Italia)

Jarkko Turunen (European Central Bank)

José Manuel Varejão (Universidade do Porto)

Andrea Weber (University of California, Berkeley)