Monetary Economics Program Meeting
Organized by David W. Berger, Giorgio Primiceri, Emi Nakamura, and Jón Steinsson
March 8, 2019
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Illinois Rooms, Conference Center, 230 S. LaSalle Street, Chicago, IL
Thursday, March 7
6:30 pm
Dinner
Florentine Restaurant
151 W. Adams Street
Chicago, IL
Friday, March 8
9:00 am

Five Facts about Beliefs and Portfolios

Stefano Giglio, Yale University and NBER
Matteo Maggiori, Stanford University and NBER
Johannes Stroebel, New York University and NBER
Stephen Utkus, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant:
Yueran Ma, University of Chicago and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am

Monetary Policy in a World of Cryptocurrencies

Pierpaolo Benigno, University of Bern

Discussant:
Marco Bassetto, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am

Banking Supervision, Monetary Policy and Risk-Taking: Big Data Evidence from 15 Credit Registers

Carlo Altavilla, European Central Bank
Miguel Boucinha, European Central Bank
Jose-Luis Peydro, Luiss University
Frank Smets, Bank for International Settlements

Discussant:
Adi Sunderam, Harvard University and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch- LaSalle Dining Room
1:30 pm

Borrowing to Save and Investment Dynamics

Jasmine Xiao, University of Notre Dame

Discussant:
Nicolas Crouzet, Northwestern University
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

Cash and the Economy: Evidence from India's Demonetization

Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University and NBER
Gita Gopinath, International Monetary Fund
Prachi Mishra, Ashoka University
Abhinav Narayanan, Reserve Bank of India

Discussant:
Fernando E. Alvarez, University of Chicago and NBER
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm

Negative Nominal Interest Rates and the Bank Lending Channel

Gauti B. Eggertsson, Brown University and NBER
Ella Wold, BI Norwegian Business School
Ragnar Juelsrud, Norges Bank
Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard University and NBER

Discussant:
Matthew Rognlie, Northwestern University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn