International Finance and Macroeconomics Program Meeting
Organized by Ariel Burstein and Charles Engel
October 30, 2015
NBER

Friday, October 30

8:25 am

The Distributional Consequences of Large Devaluations

Javier Cravino, University of Michigan and NBER
Andrei Levchenko, University of Michigan and NBER

9:50 am

Capital Allocation and Productivity in South Europe

Gita Gopinath, International Monetary Fund
Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Brown University and NBER
Loukas Karabarbounis, University of Minnesota and NBER
Carolina Villegas-Sanchez, ESADE Business School

10:50 am

How Exporters Grow

Doireann Fitzgerald, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Stefanie Haller, University College Dublin
Yaniv Yedid-Levi, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya

12:45 pm

Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises: Can Monetary Policy Help?

Philippe Bacchetta, University of Lausanne
Eric van Wincoop, University of Virginia and NBER

2:10 pm

The Dynamics of the U.S. Trade Balance and the Real Exchange Rate: The J Curve and Trade Costs?

George A. Alessandria, University of Rochester and NBER
Horag Choi, Monash University

3:10 pm

Does Incomplete Spanning in International Financial Markets Help to Explain Exchange Rates?

Hanno Lustig, Stanford University and NBER
Adrien Verdelhan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER