Monetary Economics Program Meeting
Organized by Adrien Auclert, Marco Di Maggio, Emi Nakamura, and Jón Steinsson
November 1, 2019
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Yellen Conference Center, 1st Floor, 101 Market Street, San Francisco, CA
Friday, November 1
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

Aggregate Dynamics in Lumpy Economies

Andres Blanco, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Isaac Baley, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Discussant:
Fernando E. Alvarez, University of Chicago and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am

A Model of Intermediation, Money, Interest, and Prices

Saki Bigio, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Yuliy Sannikov, Stanford University

Discussant:
Monika Piazzesi, Stanford University and NBER
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am

The Limits of Shadow Banks

Greg Buchak, Stanford University and NBER
Gregor Matvos, Northwestern University and NBER
Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia University and NBER
Amit Seru, Stanford University and NBER

Discussant:
Matteo Benetton, University of California, Berkeley
12:30 pm
Lunch- Market Street Dining Room, 4th floor
1:30 pm

Monetary Policy, Redistribution, and Risk Premia

Rohan Kekre, University of Chicago and NBER
Moritz Lenel, Princeton University and NBER

Discussant:
Stavros Panageas, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

No Job, No Money, No Refi: Frictions to Refinancing in a Recession

Anthony A. DeFusco, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
John A. Mondragon, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Discussant:
Emily Williams, The Investment Company Institute
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm

Macro Skewness and Conditional Second Moments: Evidence and Theories

Ian Dew-Becker, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi, Northwestern University
Andrea Vedolin, Boston University and NBER

Discussant:
David Baqaee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Dinner
Perbacco Restaurant
230 California Street
San Francisco, CA
Tuesday, July 7
1:00 pm

Beyond the Balance Sheet Model of Banking: Implications for Bank Regulation and Monetary Policy

Greg Buchak, Stanford University and NBER
Gregor Matvos, Northwestern University and NBER
Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia University and NBER
Amit Seru, Stanford University and NBER

Discussant:
Dean Corbae, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER