Monetary Economics Program Meeting
Organized by Gabriel Chodorow-Reich and Simon Gilchrist
November 2, 2018
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Charles Suites, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Thursday, November 1
6:30 pm
Dinner
Dante Restaurant (Royal Sonesta Hotel)
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA
Friday, November 2
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

Myopia and Anchoring

George-Marios Angeletos, Northwestern University and NBER
Zhen Huo, Yale University

Discussant:
Christopher A. Sims, Princeton University
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am

Inflation Expectations and Firm Decisions: New Causal Evidence (slides)

Olivier Coibion, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Tiziano Ropele, Banca d'Italia

Discussant:
Luminita Stevens, University of Maryland, College Park
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am

Human Frictions to the Transmission of Economic Policy

Francesco D’Acunto, Georgetown University
Daniel Hoang, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Maritta Paloviita, Bank of Finland
Michael Weber, Purdue University and NBER

Discussant:
Nicola Gennaioli, Bocconi University
12:30 pm
Lunch-Somerset Room
1:30 pm

Mortgage Prepayment and Path-Dependent Effects of Monetary Policy

David W. Berger, Duke University and NBER
Konstantin Milbradt, Northwestern University and NBER
Fabrice Tourre, Baruch College of the City University of New York
Joseph S. Vavra, University of Chicago and NBER

Discussant:
Daniel Greenwald, New York University and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

Credit Supply and Housing Speculation

Atif R. Mian, Princeton University and NBER
Amir Sufi, University of Chicago and NBER

Discussant:
Paul S. Willen, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and NBER
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm

The Real Effects of the Financial Crisis

Ben S. Bernanke, The Brookings Institution

Discussant:
Jeremy C. Stein, Harvard University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn