2024 PhD Conference

11^th Annual MMF Ph.D. Conference, 11-12 June 2024

Lecture Theatre F, University of Surrey, Guildford

Tuesday 11th June

11:00 – 11:15 Registration and refreshments

11:15 – 11:30 Opening remarks from Prof. Annika Bautz, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

11:30 – 13:00 Session 1

• Andrew Preston – University College London
  Risky Jobs, Risky Assets and Risky Business Cycles
• Hedieh Shahini – University of Warwick
  International Inflation Correlation Risk: Hedge or Trade, Nature Spirit

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:30 Session 2

• Jacob Stevens – University of St. Andrews Is Quantitative Easing a signal?
  A unified model of the signalling and portfolio balance channels
• Yevhenii Skok – University of Liverpool
  Estimating DSGE Models: Did the Effective Lower Bound Represent a Constraint on Monetary Policy in the UK?

15:30 – 16:00 Break and refreshments

16:00 – 17:30 Session 3

• Momo Komatsu – University of Oxford
  To Cap or Not to Cap? Energy Crisis in a Currency Union
• Naoki Yago – University of Cambridge
  Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies in a Global Economy

19:30 Conference dinner

Wednesday 12th June

09:30 – 11:00 Session 4

• Mary Tzaawa-Krenzler – Goethe University
  Frankfurt Heterogeneous Attention to Inflation and Monetary Policy
• Alena Wabitsch – University of Oxford
  The Messenger Matters

11:00 – 12:30 Poster session & refreshments

• Leonardo Barros-Torres – University of Surrey
  Secondary Markets and Selective Defaults
• Rositsa Chankova – University of Oxford
  Looking through non-core shocks? Unravelling Eurozone Inflation Dynamics and Policy Implications from Food and Energy Prices
• Pengguang Lu – University of Manchester
  Herding and Wealth Heterogeneity in the Macroeconomy
• Luigi Pivano – University of Bath
  International trade, Environment and Directed technical change
• Myoung Eun Chin – University of Kent
  Loss Aversion and Wealth Inequality
• Mariia Vartuzova – University of Glasgow
  The distributional effects of monetary and fiscal policy interactions in a heterogeneous agent New Keynesian model

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:00 Session 5

• Ivan Shchapov – Institut Polytechnique de Paris
  It is Taxing to be Coherent
• Sweta Pramanick – Queen’s University Belfast
  The Impact of Employment Protection on Productivity: Crowding-out Effects of Financial and Operating Leverage

15:00 – 15:30 Break and refreshments

15:30 – 17:00 Session 6

• Haokun Pang – University of Birmingham
  Health and Economic Inequality During Pandemics
• Mohd Taufiq Bin Mohd Zin – University of Nottingham
  The interaction of domestic bank loans with exchange rate and foreign interest rate