Friday, July 10
11:00 am

Taming a Minsky Cycle (slides)

Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University
Iván Werning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Discussant:
Yueran Ma, University of Chicago and NBER (slides)
12:00 pm

Monetary Policy Communications and their Effects on Household Inflation Expectations

Olivier Coibion, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Michael Weber, University of Chicago and NBER

Discussant:
Ricardo Reis, London School of Economics
1:00 pm
Break
2:00 pm

Expectations Uncertainty and Household Economic Behavior

Camelia M. Kuhnen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and NBER
Elyas Fermand, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Geng Li, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Itzhak Ben-David, The Ohio State University and NBER

Discussant:
Victoria Gregory, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
3:00 pm

Belief Distortions and Macroeconomic Fluctuations (slides)

Francesco Bianchi, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
Sydney C. Ludvigson, New York University and NBER
Sai Ma, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Discussant:
Ruediger Bachmann, University of Notre Dame
4:00 pm

Dynamic Rational Inattention and the Phillips Curve (slides)

Hassan Afrouzi, Columbia University and NBER
Choongryul Yang, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Discussant:
George-Marios Angeletos, Northwestern University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
The format will be: 30 minutes for the presenter, 10 minutes for the discussant, and 20 minutes for general discussion.