Thursday, July 9

2:00 pm

Learning, Confidence, and Business Cycles

Cosmin L. Ilut, Duke University and NBER
Hikaru Saijo, University of California, Santa Cruz

3:30 pm

Indeterminacy In Sovereign Debt Markets: A Quantitative Analysis

Luigi Bocola, Stanford University and NBER
Alessandro Dovis, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

4:30 pm

Solving and Estimating Indeterminate DSGE Models

Roger Farmer, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Vadim Khramov, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Giovanni Nicolò, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Friday, July 10

1:00 pm

Approximating Time Varying Structural Models With Time Invariant Structures

Fabio Canova, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Filippo Ferroni, Banque de France
Christian Matthes, Indiana University

2:00 pm

A Narrative Approach To A Fiscal DSGE Model

Thorsten Drautzburg, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

3:30 pm

Endogenous Volatility at the Zero Lower Bound: Implications for Stabilization Policy

Susanto Basu, Boston College and NBER
Brent Bundick, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

4:30 pm

Monetary Policy, Credit Spreads, and Business Cycle Fluctuations

Dario Caldara, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Edward P. Herbst, Federal Reserve Board of Governors