The seminar will be held from May 10^th to May 13^th, 2016, on the Island of Reichenau at the Lake of Constance. The first session will begin on May 11^th at 9:00 a.m., the conference sessions will end with dinner on May 12^th. There will be an informal get-together for dinner in the evening of May 10^th. May 13^th is reserved for travel.

Accommodation and seminar presentations will be at Strandhotel Löchnerhaus, located on Reichenau Island.  (Find it here in Google maps.)

--> More information on the Konstanz seminar, its history and academic and policy accomplishments are available here.

Presenter	Title	pdf-Files
Alexander Monge-Naranjo (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)	Natural Resources and Global Misallocation with Juan M. Sánchez and Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis Discussant: Berthold Herrendorf (WP Carey School of Business, ASU)
Brent Bundick (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City)	The Dynamic Effects of Forward Guidance Shocks with A. Lee Smith Discussant: Benjamin Born (University of Bonn)
Mirko Wiederholt (Goethe University Frankfurt)	Empirical Properties of Inflation Expectations and the Zero Lower Bound Discussant: Pablo Guerrón (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
Alisdair McKay (Boston University)	Optimal Automatic Stabilizers with Ricardo Reis Discussant: Ralph Luetticke (University of Bonn)
Raphael Schoenle (Brandeis University)	Production Networks and the Propagation of Monetary Policy Shocks with Ernesto Pasten and Michael Weber Discussant: Zeno Enders (Heidelberg University)
Vincent Sterk (UCL)	The Dark Corners of the Labor Market Discussant: Keith Kuester (University of Bonn)
Moritz Schularick (U Bonn)	Macrofinancial History and the New Business Cycle Facts with Òscar Jordà and Alan Taylor
David Martinez-Miera (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid)	Search for Yield with Raphael Repullo Discussant: Stefan Niemann (University of Essex)
Policy Session Speaker: Loretta Mester (President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)