International Finance and Macroeconomics Program Meeting
Organized by Yan Bai and Anusha Chari
March 29, 2024
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA (Riverfront Room)
FORMAT: Each presenter will have 30 minutes. Each discussant will have 15 minutes. There will be another 15 minutes for open discussion.
Friday, March 29
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am
Welcome Remarks
8:45 am

Hidden Debt Revelations

Sebastian Horn, University of Hamburg
David Mihalyi, The World Bank
Philipp Nickol, University of Duisburg-Essen
César Sosa-Padilla, University of Notre Dame and NBER

Discussant:
Carmen M. Reinhart, Harvard University and NBER
9:45 am

Inelastic Demand Meets Optimal Supply of Risky Sovereign Bonds

Matias Moretti, University of Rochester
Lorenzo Pandolfi, CSEF
Sergio L. Schmukler, The World Bank
German Villegas-Bauer, International Monetary Fund
Tomas Williams, The George Washington University

Discussant:
Robin Greenwood, Harvard University and NBER
Break
11:00 am

Liability Dollarization and Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Domestic Prices

Junhyong Kim, Korea Development Institute
Annie Soyean Lee, Johns Hopkins University

Discussant:
Roberto Chang, Rutgers University and NBER
Lunch - University BC
1:00 pm

Exchange Controls As A Fiscal Instrument (slides)

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

Discussant:
Alessandro Rebucci, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
2:00 pm

The Exchange Rate as an Industrial Policy

Pablo Ottonello, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
Diego J. Perez, New York University and NBER
William Witheridge, University of Maryland, College Park

Discussant:
Oleg Itskhoki, Harvard University and NBER
Break
3:15 pm

Liquidity, Debt Denomination, and Currency Dominance

Antonio Coppola, Stanford University
Arvind Krishnamurthy, Stanford University and NBER
Chenzi Xu, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Discussant:
Ricardo J. Caballero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
4:15 pm

A Framework for Geoeconomics

Christopher Clayton, Yale University and NBER
Matteo Maggiori, Stanford University and NBER
Jesse Schreger, Columbia University and NBER

Discussant:
Ana Fostel, University of Virginia and NBER
Adjourn