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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

International Finance and Macroeconomics Program Meeting

Ariel Burstein and Charles Engel, Organizers

October 30, 2015

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

PROGRAM

Thursday, October 29:
6:30 pm	Dinner
	Bambara Restaurant
	25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
	Cambridge, MA
Friday, October 30:
7:45 am	Shuttle Service from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to the NBER
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:25 am	Javier Cravino, University of Michigan and NBER Andrei Levchenko, University of Michigan and NBER The Distributional Consequences of Large Devaluations Discussant: Michael Devereux, University of British Columbia and NBER
9:25 am	Break
9:50 am	Gita Gopinath, Harvard University and NBER Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, University of Maryland and NBER Loukas Karabarbounis, University of Chicago and NBER Carolina Villegas-Sanchez, ESADE-Universitat Ramon Llull Capital Allocation and Productivity in South Europe Discussant: Virgiliu Midrigan, New York University and NBER
10:50 am	Doireann Fitzgerald, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER Stefanie Haller, University College Dublin Yaniv Yedid-Levi, University of British Columbia How Exporters Grow Discussant: Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER
11:50 am	Lunch
12:45 pm	Philippe Bacchetta and Elena Perazzi, University of Lausanne Eric van Wincoop, University of Virginia and NBER Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises: Can Monetary Policy Really Help? Discussant: Luigi Bocola, Northwestern University
1:45 pm	Break
2:10 pm	George A. Alessandria, University of Rochester and NBER Horag Choi, Monash University The Dynamics of the U.S. Trade Balance and the Real Exchange Rate: The J Curve and Trade Costs? Discussant: Brent Neiman, University of Chicago and NBER
3:10 pm	Hanno Lustig, Stanford University and NBER Adrien Verdelhan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Does Incomplete Spanning in International Financial Markets Help to Explain Exchange Rates? Discussant: Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University and NBER
4:10 pm	Adjourn

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