International Finance and Macroeconomics Program Meeting
April 1, 2016

Friday, April 1

8:30 am

A New Dilemma: Capital Controls and Monetary Policy in Sudden Stop Economies

Michael B. Devereux, University of British Columbia and NBER
Eric Young, University of Virginia
Changhua Yu, Peking University

9:20 am

The Globalization Risk Premium

Jean-Noel Barrot, HEC Paris
Erik Loualiche, University of Minnesota and NBER
Julien Sauvagnat, Bocconi University

10:30 am

Fiscal Rules and Discretion in a World Economy

Marina Halac, Yale University
Pierre Yared, Columbia University and NBER

11:20 am

Liquidity Regulation and Unintended Financial Transformation in China

Kinda Cheryl Hachem, University of Virginia and NBER
Zheng Michael Song, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

1:20 pm

A Contagious Malady? Open Economy Dimensions of Secular Stagnation

Gauti B. Eggertsson, Brown University and NBER
Neil Mehrotra, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Sanjay Singh, University of California, Davis
Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard University

2:20 pm

Optimal Macroprudential and Monetary Policy in a Currency Union

Dmitriy Sergeyev, Bocconi University

3:10 pm

Multiple Equilibria in Open Economy Models with Collateral Constraints: Overborrowing Revisited

Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe, Columbia University and NBER
Martín Uribe, Columbia University and NBER