International Finance and Macroeconomics Program Meeting
Organized by Cristina Arellano and Oleg Itskhoki
March 6, 2020
Hyatt Regency San Francisco, 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA
Thursday, March 5
6:30 pm
Dinner
Perbacco Restaurant
230 California Street
San Francisco, CA
Friday, March 6
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am

Deviations from FIRE and Exchange Rates: A GE Theory of Supply and Demand (slides)

Vania Stavrakeva, London Business School
Jenny Tang, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Discussant:
Matteo Maggiori, Stanford University and NBER
9:30 am

Optimal Monetary Policy under Dollar Pricing

Konstantin Egorov, University of Antwerp
Dmitry Mukhin, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Discussant:
Paolo A. Pesenti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and NBER
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am

The Global Factor Structure of Exchange Rates

Sofonias Korsaye, Johns Hopkins University
Fabio Trojani, University of Geneva
Andrea Vedolin, Boston University and NBER

Discussant:
Hanno Lustig, Stanford University and NBER
11:45 am

Arbitrage Capital of Global Banks

Alyssa G. Anderson, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Wenxin Du, Harvard University and NBER
Bernd Schlusche, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Discussant:
Romain Rancière, University of Southern California and NBER
12:45 pm
Lunch- Market Street Dining Room
1:45 pm

Sovereign Debt, Default Risk, and the Liquidity of Government Bonds

Gastón Chaumont, University of Rochester

Discussant:
Alessandro Dovis, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
2:45 pm
Break
3:00 pm

Tracing the International Transmission of a Crisis Through Multinational Firms

Marcus Biermann, Bielefeld University
Kilian Huber, University of Chicago and NBER

Discussant:
Doireann Fitzgerald, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
4:00 pm

Estimating Macroeconomic Models of Financial Crises: An Endogenous Regime-Switching Approach

Gianluca Benigno, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Andrew Foerster, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Christopher Otrok, University of Missouri
Alessandro Rebucci, Johns Hopkins University and NBER

Discussant:
Yan Bai, University of Rochester and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn