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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Lessons from the Financial Crisis for Monetary Policy

 

Mark Gertler, Organizer

 

October 18-19, 2013

 

Intercontinental Hotel

Rose Kennedy Ballroom
510 Atlantic Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02210

PROGRAM

 

Friday, October 18

 

 

8:30 a.m.

Coffee and pastries

 

 

9:00 a.m.

Aloisio Araujo, IMPA

Susan Schommer, IMPA

 

Michael Woodford, Columbia University and NBER

 

Conventional and Unconventional Monetary Policy with Endogenous Collateral Constraints  (slides)

 

 

 

Discussant: John Geanakoplos, Yale University (slides)

 

 

10:00 a.m.

Coffee break 

 

 

10:30 a.m.

Mark Gertler, New York University and NBER

 

Peter Karadi, European Central Bank

 

Monetary Policy Surprises, Credit Costs, and Economic Activity (slides)

 

 

 

Discussant: Eric T. Swanson, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (slides)

 

 

11:30 a.m.

Simon Gilchrist, Boston University and NBER

David Lopez-Salido, Federal Reserve Board

 

Egon Zakrajsek, Federal Reserve Board

 

Monetary Policy and Real Borrowing Costs at the ZLB (slides)

 

 

 

Discussant: James D. Hamilton, University of California at San Diego and NBER (slides)

 

 

12:30 p.m.

Lunch

 

 

2:00 p.m.

Jordi Gali, CREI and NBER

Luca Gambetti, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

 

The Effects of Monetary Policy on Asset Price Bubbles: Some Evidence  (slides)

 

 

 

Discussant: Lucrezia Reichlin, London Business School  (slides)

 

 

3:00 p.m.

Lawrence Christiano, Northwestern University and NBER

 

Martin S. Eichenbaum, Northwestern University and NBER

 

Mathias Trabandt, Board of Governors

 

Understanding the Great Recession  (slides)

 

 

 

Discussant: Robert E. Hall, Stanford University and NBER (slides)

 

 

4:00 p.m.

Coffee break

 

 

4:30 p.m.

Panel discussion on lessons from the crisis for monetary policy:

 

Moderator:  James Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

Marvin Goodfriend, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

 

Frederic S. Mishkin, Columbia University and NBER

 

Jeremy C. Stein, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

 

John Williams, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

 

 

6:00 p.m.

Adjourn

 

 

6:30 p.m.

Reception – Intercontinental Hotel, Dartmouth and Eleanor Rooms

 

 

7:00 p.m.

Dinner

 

Speaker: Olivier J. Blanchard, International Monetary Fund and NBER

 

 

Saturday, October 19

 

 

8:30 a.m.

Coffee and pastries

 

 

9:00 a.m.

Olivier Coibion, University of Texas, Austin and NBER

 

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

 

Is The Phillips Curve Alive and Well After All? Inflation Expectations and the Missing Disinflation  (slides)

 

 

 

Discussant: Virgiliu Midrigan, New York University and NBER (slides)

 

 

10:00 a.m.

Coffee break

 

 

10:30 a.m.

Markus K. Brunnermeier, Princeton University and NBER

Yuliy Sannikov, Princeton University

 

Capital Controls: Growth versus Stability (slides)

 

 

 

Discussant: Anil Kashyap, University of Chicago and NBER (slides)

 

 

11:30 a.m.

Lars E.O. Svensson, Stockholm University and NBER

 

Forward Guidance as a Monetary Policy Tool in Theory and Practice: The Swedish Experience  (slides)

 

 

 

Discussant: Christopher A. Sims, Princeton University and NBER  (slides)

 

 

12:30 p.m.

Adjourn and lunch