Capital Flows, Currency Wars and Monetary Policy

April 5-6, 2018

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, April 5
FORMAT
35 minutes author
15 minutes discussant
10 minutes general discussion
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

US Monetary Policy and the Global Financial Cycle (slides) (discussant slides)
Discussant: John Y. Campbell, Harvard University and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am

A Model of Fickle Capital Flows and Retrenchment (slides) (discussant slides)
Discussant: Matteo Maggiori, Stanford University and NBER
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am

Foreign Reserve Management (slides) (discussant slides)
Discussant: Charles Engel, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

Balance Sheets, Exchange Rates, and International Monetary Spillovers (slides) (discussant slides)
Discussant: Giancarlo Corsetti, European University Institute
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

Currency Manipulation (slides) (discussant slides)
Discussant: Liliana Varela, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm
Panel
Olivier J. Blanchard, Peterson Institute for International Economics and NBER
Maurice Obstfeld, International Monetary Fund and NBER
Kenneth S. Rogoff, Harvard University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
6:30 pm
Dinner in Skyline Room, Royal Sonesta Hotel

Speaker: Mohamed El-Erian, NBER Board Member
Friday, April 6
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am

Global Trade and the Dollar (slides) (discussant slides)
Discussant: Michael B. Devereux, University of British Columbia and NBER
9:30 am
Break
9:45 am

Currency Wars, Trade Wars and Global Demand (slides) (discussant slides)
Discussant: Alberto Martin, CREI, UPF and BSE
10:45 am
Break
11:00 am

Macroprudential FX Regulations: Shifting the Snowbanks of FX Vulnerability (slides) (discussant slides)
Discussant: Jeffrey A. Frankel, Harvard University and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

Trade and Currency Weapons (slides) (discussant slides)
Discussant: Philippe Martin, Sciences Po
2:00 pm
Break
2:15 pm

Exchange Rates and the Transmission of Global Liquidity (slides) (discussant slides)
Discussant: Jesse Schreger, Columbia University and NBER
3:15 pm
Adjourn