International Finance and Macroeconomics Program Meeting

Guido Lorenzoni, Vivian Yue, and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Organizers

October 26, 2018

Royal Sonesta Hotel, University B&C Room, 40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, October 25
6:30 pm
Dinner - Bambara Restaurant at Hotel Marlowe (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Friday, October 26
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
FORMAT: 30 minutes for the presenter; 12 minutes for the discussant; 8 minutes for open discussion
8:30 am
George A. Alessandria, University of Rochester and NBER
Carter B. Mix, Federal Reserve Board

The Global Trade Slowdown: Trade and Growth, Cause and Effect
Discussant: Ricardo M. Reyes-Heroles, Federal Reserve Board
9:20 am
Pablo Sebastian Fanelli, CEMFI

Monetary Policy, Capital Controls, and International Portfolios (slides)
Discussant: Dmitry Mukhin, London School of Economics
10:10 am
Break
10:30 am
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Philippe Martin, Sciences Po
Todd E. Messer, Federal Reserve Board

The Economics of Sovereign Debt, Bailouts and the Eurozone Crisis
Discussant: Javier Bianchi, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
11:20 am
Cristina Arellano, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Yan Bai, University of Rochester and NBER
Gabriel P. Mihalache, The Ohio State University

Inflation Targeting with Sovereign Default Risk (slides)
Discussant: Giancarlo Corsetti, University of Cambridge
12:10 pm
Lunch- Somerset Room
1:10 pm
Anusha Chari, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and NBER
Ryan Leary, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Toan Phan, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

The Transmission of Quasi-Sovereign Default Risk: Evidence from Puerto Rico
Discussant: Ṣebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Brown University and NBER
2:00 pm
Break
2:20 pm
Andres Drenik, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Rishabh Kirpalani, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Diego Perez, New York University and NBER

Currency Choice in Contracts
Discussant: Alessandro Dovis, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
3:10 pm
Graciela L. Kaminsky, George Washington University and NBER

The Center and the Periphery: Two Hundred Years of International Borrowing Cycles
Discussant: Alan M. Taylor, Columbia University and NBER
4:00 pm
Adjourn