NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Macroeconomics Within and Across Borders

Mark A. Aguiar, Patrick Kehoe, and Mark L. J. Wright, Organizers

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

December 6, 2013

 

 

PROGRAM

8:30 am

Coffee and pastries


9:00 am


Enrique G. Mendoza, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Linda Tesar, University of Michigan and NBER
Jing Zhang, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Saving Europe?: The Unpleasant Arithmetic of Fiscal Austerity in Integrated Economies

Discussant: Harald Uhlig, University of Chicago


10:00 am


Coffee


10:30 am


Xavier Gabaix, New York University and NBER
Matteo Maggiori, New York University and NBER
International Liquidity and Exchange Rate Dynamics

Discussant: Arvind Krishnamurthy, Kellogg School of Management


11:30 pm


Mark Aguiar, Princeton University
Manuel Amador, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Take the Short Route:  How to repay and restructure sovereign debt with multiple maturities

Discussant: Cristina Arellano, FRB Minneapolis


12:30 pm


Lunch


2:00 pm


Thomas Philippon, New York University and NBER
Philippe Martin, Sciences Po
Household Leverage and Sovereign Risk

Discussant: Atif Mian, Princeton University

3:00pm

Coffee


3:30 pm


Ariel Burstein, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
Jonathan Vogel, Columbia University and NBER
Eduardo Morales, Princeton University and NBER
Accounting for changes in between group inequality

Discussant: Gadi Barlevy, FRB Chicago


4:30 am


Oleg Itskhoki, Princeton University and NBER
Benjamin Moll, Princeton University and NBER
Optimal Development Policies with Financial Frictions

Discussant: Joe Kaboski, Notre Dame


5:30 pm


Adjourn


7:30 pm


Dinner

Vivere

71 W Monroe St
(between Wabash Ave & Michigan Ave)