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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Monetary Economics Program Meeting

Guido Lorenzoni and Jonathan Parker, Organizers

November 9, 2012

National Bureau of Economic Research

Feldstein Conference Room

2nd Floor

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Thursday, November 8:

 

6:30 pm

Group Dinner

Bambara Restaurant at the Hotel Marlowe

25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge

(across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)

 

Friday, November 9:

 

8:15 am

Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast


9:00 am


Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University and NBER
Ivan Werning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Fiscal Unions

Discussant: Olivier Jeanne, Johns Hopkins University and NBER

 

10:00 am

Break


10:20 am


Itamar Drechsler, New York University
Thomas Drechsel, European Central Bank
David Marques-Ibanez, European Central Bank
Philipp Schnabl, New York University and NBER
Who Borrows from the Lender of Last Resort? Evidence from the European Financial Crisis

Discussant:
Simon Gilchrist, Boston University and NBER

 

11:20 am

Break


11:40 am


Susanto Basu, Boston College and NBER
Luigi Pascali, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Fabio Schiantarelli, Boston College
Luis Serven, The World Bank
Productivity and the Welfare of Nations

Discussant: Diego Comin, Harvard University and NBER

 

12:40 pm

Lunch


1:40 pm


Stefano Eusepi, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Bruce Preston, Monash University and NBER
Fiscal Foundations of Inflation: Imperfect Knowledge

Discussant: Christopher Sims, Princeton University and NBER

 

2:40 pm

Break


3:00 pm


Chao He, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Randall Wright, University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER
Yu Zhu, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Housing and Liquidity

Discussant: Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Princeton University and NBER


4:00 pm


Rodney Ramcharan,
Skander J. Van den Heuvel and Stephane Verani, Federal Reserve Board
From Wall Street to Main Street: The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Consumer Credit Supply

Discussant:
Amit Seru, University of Chicago and NBER

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn