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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2013 Macroeconomics Within and Across Borders

Mark Aguiar, Patrick Kehoe, and Mark Wright, Organizers

July 15, 2013

Royal Sonesta Hotel
University B Meeting Room
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

 

Monday, July 15:

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

9:00 am

Pablo D'Erasmo, University of Maryland
Enrique Mendoza, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Optimal Domestic Sovereign Default

Discussant: Jonathan Heathcote, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

9:50 am

Break

10:05 am

Marcus Hagedorn, Institute for Advanced Studies
Fatih Karahan, University of Pennsylvania
Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Kurt Mitman, University of Pennsylvania
Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment in the Great Recession: The Role of Macro Effects

Discussant:
Sam Schulhofer-Wohl, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

10:55 am

Break

11:10 am

Cristina Arellano, University of Minnesota and NBER
Yan Bai, University of Rochester
Patrick Kehoe, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER
Ananth Ramanarayanan, Western University
Credibility and the Maturity of Government Debt

Discussant: Francisco Buera, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER

12:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm

Matteo Cacciatore, HEC Montreal
Giuseppe Fiori, North Carolina State University
Fabio Ghironi, Boston College and NBER
Market Deregulation and Optimal Monetary Policy in a Monetary Union

Discussant:
Javier Bianchi, University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER

1:50 pm

Break

2:05 pm

Cristina Arellano, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis  and NBER
Xavier Mateos-Planas, Queen Mary University of London
Jose Rios-Rull, University of Minnesota and NBER
Partial Default

Discussant: Satyajit Chatterlee, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

2:55 pm

Break

3:10 pm

Alberto Cavallo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Brent Neiman, University of Chicago and NBER
Roberto Rigobon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Product Introductions, Currency Unions, and the Real Exchange Rate

Discussant: Gita Gopinath, Harvard University and NBER

4:00 pm

Break

4:15 pm

Laurence Ales, Carnegie Mellon University
Pricila Maziero, University of Pennsylvania
Pierre Yared, Columbia University and NBER
A Theory of Political and Economic Cycles

Discussant:
Manuel Amador, Stanford University and NBER

5:05 pm

Adjourn