International Finance and Macroeconomics Program Meeting

Cristina Arellano, Brent Neiman, and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Organizers

March 8, 2019

NBER, 2nd Floor Conference Room, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, March 7

6:30 pm

Dinner
Bambara Restaurant
25 Edwin Land Boulevard (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Cambridge, MA

Friday, March 8

7:45 am

Continental Breakfast

8:15 am

Skilled Immigration, Firms, and Policy

Discussant:

Todd Schoellman, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

9:10 am

Global Banks and Systemic Debt Crises

Discussant:

Luigi Bocola, Stanford University and NBER

10:05 am

Break

10:15 am

Real Interest Rates, Inflation, and Default

Discussant:

Jesse Schreger, Columbia University and NBER

11:10 am

Monetary Independence and Rollover Crises

Discussant:

Alessandro Dovis, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

12:05 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm

Productivity, (Mis)allocation and Trade

Discussant:

Dan Lu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

1:55 pm

Break

2:10 pm

Hedger of Last Resort: Evidence from Brazilian FX Interventions, Local Credit, and Global Financial Cycles

Discussant:

Ṣebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Brown University and NBER

3:05 pm

Dominant Currency Debt (slides)

Discussant:

Dmitry Mukhin, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

4:00 pm

Adjourn

Thursday, July 11

10:15 am

Parkview room

Monetary Independence and Rollover Crises (slides)