International Finance and Macroeconomics Program Meeting

Cristina Arellano and Oleg Itskhoki, Organizers

March 6, 2020

Hyatt Regency San Francisco, 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, March 5
6:30 pm
Dinner
Perbacco Restaurant
230 California Street
San Francisco, CA
Friday, March 6
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am
Vania Stavrakeva, London Business School
Jenny Tang, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Deviations from FIRE and Exchange Rates: A GE Theory of Supply and Demand (slides)
Discussant: Matteo Maggiori, Stanford University and NBER
9:30 am
Konstantin Egorov, UAntwerp
Dmitry Mukhin, London School of Economics

Optimal Monetary Policy under Dollar Pricing
Discussant: Paolo A. Pesenti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and NBER
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am
Sofonias Korsaye, Johns Hopkins University
Fabio Trojani, University of Geneva
Andrea Vedolin, Boston University and NBER

The Global Factor Structure of Exchange Rates
Discussant: Hanno Lustig, Stanford University and NBER
11:45 am
Alyssa G. Anderson, Federal Reserve Board
Wenxin Du, Harvard University and NBER
Bernd Schlusche, Federal Reserve Board

Arbitrage Capital of Global Banks
Discussant: Romain Rancière, University of Southern California and NBER
12:45 pm
Lunch- Market Street Dining Room
1:45 pm
Gastón Chaumont, University of Rochester

Sovereign Debt, Default Risk, and the Liquidity of Government Bonds
Discussant: Alessandro Dovis, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
2:45 pm
Break
3:00 pm
Marcus Biermann, Bielefeld University
Kilian Huber, University of Chicago and NBER

Tracing the International Transmission of a Crisis Through Multinational Firms
Discussant: Doireann Fitzgerald, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
4:00 pm
Gianluca Benigno, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Andrew Foerster, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Christopher Otrok, University of Missouri
Alessandro Rebucci, Johns Hopkins University and NBER

Estimating Macroeconomic Models of Financial Crises: An Endogenous Regime-Switching Approach
Discussant: Yan Bai, University of Rochester and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn