The seminar will be held from May 30^th to June 2^nd, 2017, on the Island of Reichenau at the Lake of Constance. The first session will begin on May 31^st at 8:30 a.m., the conference sessions will end with dinner on June 1^st. There will be an informal get-together for dinner in the evening of May 30^th. June 2^nd is reserved for travel.

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

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Presenter	Title	pdf-Files
Edouard Challe (Ecole Polytechnique)	Uninsured unemployment risk and optimal monetary policy Discussant: Monika Merz (University of Vienna)
Kurt Mitman (IIES)	Monetary Policy, Heterogeneity and the Housing Channel with Fatih Karahan, Serdar Ozkan, an Aron Hedlund Discussant: Vincent Sterk (University College London)
Aubhik Khan, Julia Thomas (Ohio State)	Default Risk and Aggregate Fluctuations in an Economy with Production Heterogeneity with Tatsuro Senga Discussant: Petr Sedláček (University of Bonn)
Adrian Auclert (Stanford)	Inequality and Aggregate Demand with Matt Rognlie Discussant: Kathrin Schlafmann (IIES)
Ariel Zetlin-Jones (Carnegie-Mellon)	The Maturity Structure of Inside Money with Burton Hollifield Discussant: Fabrizio Mattesini (University of Rome "Tor Vergata")
Todd B. Walker (Indiana Bloomington)	Approximate Aggregation in Dynamic Economies with Karsten O. Chipeniuk and Nets Hawk Katz Discussant: Michael Evers (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Fabio Ghironi (University of Washington)	Market Reforms at the Zero Lower Bound with Matteo Cacciatore, Romain Duval, and Giuseppe Fiori Discussant: Gernot Mueller (University of Tuebingen)
Evi Pappa (EUI)	Fiscal Consolidations in a Low Inflation Environment: Pay cuts versus Lost Jobs with Guilherme Bandeira, Rana Sajedi, and Eugenia Vella Discussant: Pablo Guerrón-Quintana (Boston College)
Michael Kumhof (Bank of England)	The Macroeconomics of Central Bank Issued Digital Currencies with John Barrdear Discussant: Paul Pichler (University of Vienna and OENB)
Policy Session Speaker: Jens Weidmann (President, Deutsche Bundesbank)