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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

International Finance and Macroeconomics Program Meeting

Charles Engel and Emmanuel Farhi, Organizers

October 31, 2014

NBER
2nd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

 

Thursday, October 30

6:30 pm

Dinner
Bambara Restaurant (Across the Street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)

25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, MA 02142

Friday, October 31


7:45 am
8:00 am


Shuttle Service from the Royal Sonesta to the NBER
Shuttle Service from the Royal Sonesta to the NBER
 

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast


8:30 am


Seunghoon Na, Columbia University
Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe, Columbia University and NBER
Martin Uribe, Columbia University and NBER
Vivian Z. Yue, Emory University
A Model of the Twin Ds: Optimal Default and Devaluation

Discussant:  Javier Bianchi, University of Wisconsin and NBER

9:30 am

Break


10:00 am


Anton Korinek, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
International Spillovers and Guidelines for Policy Cooperation

Discussant: Eduardo Davila, New York University


11:00 am


Marcos Chamon, International Monetary Fund
Julian Schumacher, Freie Universität Berlin
Christoph Trebesch, University of Munich
Foreign
Law Bonds: Can They Reduce Sovereign Borrowing Costs?

 

Discussant:  Wenxin Du, Federal Reserve Board

12:00 pm

Lunch


1:00 pm


Varadarajan V. Chari, University of Minnesota and NBER
Alessandro Dovis, Pennsylvania State University
Patrick Kehoe, University of Minnesota and NBER
On the Optimality of Financial Repression

Discussant: Saki Bigio, Columbia University

2:00 pm

Break


2:30 pm


Cristina Arellano, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER
Yan Bai, University of Rochester and NBER
Linkages Across Sovereign Debt Markets

Discussant:  Pablo D’Erasmo, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia


3:30 pm


Luca Fornaro, CREI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE
International Debt Deleveraging

Discussant: Matteo Maggiori, Harvard University and NBER

4:30 pm

Adjourn