Thursday, April 10

1:30 pm

Putting Economics Back into Geoeconomics

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

Discussants:
Jeffry Frieden, Columbia University
Thierry Mayer, Sciences Po

2:45 pm

Break

3:15 pm

Panel: The Steep Decline in Global Fertility: Causes and Consequences
Moderator: Valerie Ramey, Stanford University and NBER
Panelists:
Jésus Fernandez-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Michael Geruso, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Claudia Goldin, Harvard University and NBER
Jeanne Lafortune, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

4:45 pm

Break

5:00 pm

Guest Speaker:
Olivier Blanchard, Peterson Institute for International Economics and NBER
(paper)

6:00 pm

Reception and Group Dinner - Room University BC

Friday, April 11

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

Local Projections or VARs? A Primer for Macroeconomists

José Luis Montiel Olea, Cornell University
Mikkel Plagborg-Møller, Princeton University
Eric Qian, Princeton University
Christian K. Wolf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Discussants:
Christiane Baumeister, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Òscar Jordà, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

10:15 am

Break

10:30 am

Tradeoffs and Sacrifice over Rate Cycles: Activity, Inflation and the Price Level (slides)

Kristin Forbes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Jongrim Ha, The World Bank
M. Ayhan Kose, The World Bank

Discussants:
Lucrezia Reichlin, London Business School
Mark W. Watson, Princeton University and NBER

11:45 am

Break

12:00 pm

Credit Scores and Inequality Across the Life Cycle (slides)

Satyajit Chatterjee, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Dean Corbae, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Kyle P. Dempsey, The Ohio State University
José-Víctor Ríos-Rull, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Discussants:
Stefania Albanesi, University of Miami and NBER
Kyle F. Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota and NBER

1:15 pm

Adjourn and Lunch - Room Skyline DE