Inflation in the COVID Era and Beyond
Laurence M. Ball and Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Organizers
May 16-17, 2024
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA 02142
| Thursday, May 16 | ||||
| 12:00 pm | Lunch, University BC Room | |||
| Meeting in Longfellow Room | ||||
| 1:00 pm | Welcome | |||
| 1:15 pm |
Alberto Binetti, Bocconi University Francesco Nuzzi, Harvard University Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER People's Understanding of Inflation
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| 2:15 pm |
Giovanni L. Violante, Princeton University and NBER Oreste Tristani, European Central Bank Jiri Slacalek, European Central Bank Gonzalo Paz Pardo, European Central Bank Filippo Pallotti, University College London Who Bears the Costs of Inflation? Euro Area Households and the 2021–22 Shock
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| 3:15 pm | Break | |||
| 3:45 pm |
Hassan Afrouzi, Columbia University and NBER Saroj Bhattarai, University of Texas at Austin Edson Wu, University of Texas at Austin Relative-Price Changes as Aggregate Supply Shocks Revisited: Theory and Evidence
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| 4:45 pm |
Regis Barnichon, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Adam Shapiro, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Phillips meets Beveridge
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| 5:45 pm | Adjourn | |||
| 6:30 pm | Dinner, Bambara Restaurant, Hotel Marlowe, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd, Cambridge | |||
| Friday, May 17 | ||||
| Meeting in Parkview Room | ||||
| 8:00 am | Breakfast | |||
| 8:30 am |
Alberto Cavallo, Harvard University and NBER Oleksiy Kryvtsov, Bank of Canada Price Discounts and Cheapflation During the Post-Pandemic Inflation Surge
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| 9:30 am |
S. Borağan Aruoba, University of Maryland and NBER Thomas Drechsel, University of Maryland and NBER The Long and Variable Lags of Monetary Policy: Evidence from Disaggregated Price Indices
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| 10:30 am | Break | |||
| 11:00 am |
Mai Chi Dao, International Monetary Fund Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Daniel Leigh, International Monetary Fund Prachi Mishra, International Monetary Fund Understanding the International Rise and Fall of Inflation Since 2020
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| 12:00 pm | Lunch, Charles Room A | |||
| 12:45 pm |
Carola Binder, University of Texas at Austin and NBER Rupal Kamdar, Indiana University Jane M. Ryngaert, University of Notre Dame Partisan Expectations and COVID-Era Inflation
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| 1:45 pm |
Christina D. Romer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER David H. Romer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Lessons from History for Successful Disinflation
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| 2:45 pm | Break | |||
| 3:15 pm |
Panel Discussion Richard H. Clarida, Columbia University and NBER (Remarks) N. Gregory Mankiw, Harvard University and NBER (Remarks) Jan Hatzius, Goldman Sachs |
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| 4:30 pm | Closing Remarks & Adjourn | |||