International Finance and Macroeconomics Program Meeting

Yan Bai and Anusha Chari, Organizers

March 29, 2024

FORMAT: Each presenter will have 30 minutes. Each discussant will have 15 minutes. There will be another 15 minutes for open discussion.

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, March 29
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am
Welcome Remarks
8:45 am
Sebastian Horn, University of Hamburg
David Mihalyi, The World Bank
Philipp Nickol, University of Duisburg-Essen
César Sosa-Padilla, University of Notre Dame and NBER

Hidden Debt Revelations
Discussant: Carmen M. Reinhart, Harvard University and NBER
9:45 am
Matias Moretti, University of Rochester
Lorenzo Pandolfi, CSEF
Sergio L. Schmukler, The World Bank
German Villegas-Bauer, International Monetary Fund
Tomas Williams, The George Washington University

Inelastic Demand Meets Optimal Supply of Risky Sovereign Bonds
Discussant: Robin Greenwood, Harvard University and NBER
Break
11:00 am
Junhyong Kim, Korea Development Institute
Annie Soyean Lee, Johns Hopkins University

Liability Dollarization and Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Domestic Prices
Discussant: Roberto Chang, Rutgers University and NBER
Lunch - University BC
1:00 pm
Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé, Columbia University and NBER
Martín Uribe, Columbia University and NBER

Exchange Controls As A Fiscal Instrument (slides)
Discussant: Alessandro Rebucci, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
2:00 pm
Pablo Ottonello, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
Diego J. Perez, New York University and NBER
William Witheridge, University of Maryland, College Park

The Exchange Rate as an Industrial Policy
Discussant: Oleg Itskhoki, Harvard University and NBER
Break
3:15 pm
Antonio Coppola, Stanford University
Arvind Krishnamurthy, Stanford University and NBER
Chenzi Xu, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Liquidity, Debt Denomination, and Currency Dominance
Discussant: Ricardo J. Caballero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
4:15 pm
Christopher Clayton, Yale University and NBER
Matteo Maggiori, Stanford University and NBER
Jesse Schreger, Columbia University and NBER

A Framework for Geoeconomics
Discussant: Ana Fostel, University of Virginia and NBER
Adjourn