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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Monetary Economics Program Meeting

Atif R. Mian and Jón Steinsson, Organizers

November 7, 2014

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Parkview Room
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, MA 02142

PROGRAM

 

Thursday, November 6, 2014


6:30 pm


Dinner
Dante Restaurant
Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, MA 02142

Friday, November 7, 2014


8:30 am


Continental Breakfast


9:00 am


Gauti B. Eggertsson, Brown University and NBER
Pierpaolo Benigno, Luiss Guido Carli
Federica Romei, Luiss Guido Carli
Dynamic Debt Deleveragina and Optimal Monetary Policy

 

Discussant: Olivier Jeanne, John Hopkins University and NBER

9:55 am

Break


10:15 am


Neil Mehrotra, Brown University
Dmitriy Sergeyev, Bocconi University
Financial Shocks and Job Flows  

 

Discussant: Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER

11:10 am

Break


11:30 am


Mark Bils, University of Rochester and NBER

Peter Klenow, Stanford University and NBER

Benjamin Malin, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Resurrecting the Role of the Product Market Wedge in Recessions

Discussant: Julio Rotemberg, Harvard University and NBER

12:25 pm

Lunch- Riverfront Room


1:30 pm


Antonio Falato, Federal Reserve Board
Nellie Liang, Federal Reserve Board
Do Creditor Rights Increase Employment Risk? Evidence from Loan Covenants

Discussant: Amit Seru, University of Chicago and NBER

2:25 pm

Break


2:45 pm


Marco Di Maggio, Columbia University
Amir Kermani, University of California at Berkeley
Rodney Ramcharan, Federal Reserve Board
Monetary Policy Pass-Through: Household Consumption
and Voluntary Deleveraging


Discussant: Jonathan Parker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER


3:40 pm


Panel Discussion: “Monetary Policy and Financial Risk”
Jeremy Stein, Harvard University and NBER
Mervyn King, Former Governor of the Bank of England
Jan Hatzius, Goldman Sachs


5:00 pm


Adjourn

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