Thursday, July 12

5:00 pm

Opening remarks
Galina Hale, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Michael Klein,Tufts University and NBER

5:05 pm

The Enhanced BIS International Banking Statistics (slides)

Stefan Avdjiev, Bank for International Settlements
Hyun Song Shin, Bank for International Settlements
Philip Wooldridge, Bank for International Settlements

5:25 pm

Novel Global Tax Rate Data Set

Carlos A. Vegh, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
Guillermo Vuletin, The World Bank

5:45 pm

A Dataset for Covered Interest Rate Parity Deviations Between Government Bond Yields (slides)

Wenxin Du, Harvard University and NBER
Joanne I. Im, MIT Sloan School of Management
Jesse Schreger, Columbia University and NBER

6:05 pm

Competition-adjusted Measures of Real Exchange Rates

Andrés Fernández, International Monetary Fund
Ernesto Stein, Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública

6:30 pm

Adjourn