SI 2015 Macroeconomics Within and Across Borders
Organized by Mark L.J. Wright, Mark A. Aguiar, and Patrick J. Kehoe
July 13-14, 2015
Royal Sonesta Hotel

Monday, July 13

9:00 am

Sovereign Default: The Role of Expectations

Gaston Navarro, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Juan Pablo Nicolini, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Pedro Teles, Banco de Portugal
Joao Ayres, Inter-American Development Bank

10:15 am

The Long and the Short of It: Sovereign Debt Crises and Debt Maturity

Raquel Fernández, New York University and NBER
Alberto Martin, CREI, UPF and BSE

11:30 am

The Global Diffusion of Ideas

Francisco J. Buera, Washington University in St Louis and NBER
Ezra Oberfield, Cornell University and NBER

1:30 pm

Robust Conditional Predictions in Dynamic Games: An Application to Sovereign Debt

Juan Passadore, International Monetary Fund
Juan P. Xandri Antuna, Princeton University

2:45 pm

The Aggregate Implications of Regional Business Cycles

Martin Beraja, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER
Juan Ospina, Central Bank of Colombia

4:00 pm

Rethinking Optimal Currency Areas

Varadarajan V. Chari, University of Minnesota and NBER
Alessandro Dovis, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Patrick Kehoe, Stanford University and NBER

Tuesday, July 14

9:00 am

Sovereign Debt, Domestic Banks and the Provision of Public Liquidity

Diego Perez, New York University and NBER

10:05 am

Bad Investments and Missed Opportunities? Postwar Capital Flows to Asia and Latin America

Lee E. Ohanian, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Mark L. J. Wright, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

11:10 am

Sovereign Risk, Currency Risk, and Corporate Balance Sheets

Wenxin Du, Harvard University and NBER
Jesse Schreger, Columbia University and NBER