International Seminar on Macroeconomics

Jordi Galí and Kenneth D. West, Organizers

June 29-30, 2018

Hosted by the Central Bank of Ireland

Central Bank of Ireland, New Wapping Street, North Wall Quay,Dublin 1, Ireland

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, June 29
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:15 am
Atsushi Inoue, Vanderbilt University
Barbara Rossi, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

The Effects of Conventional and Unconventional Monetary Policy on Exchange Rates
Discussants: Refet S. Gürkaynak, Bilkent University
Giovanni Ricco, University of Warwick
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am
Luigi Bocola, Stanford University and NBER
Alessandro Dovis, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Gideon Bornstein, University of Pennsylvania

Quantitative Sovereign Default Models and the European Debt Crisis
Discussants: Yan Bai, University of Rochester and NBER
Leonardo Martinez, International Monetary Fund
12:00 pm
Lunch
Speaker: Philip Lane, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland
1:30 pm
Marco Del Negro, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Domenico Giannone, Amazon
Marc Giannoni, Barclays Corporate and Investment Bank
Andrea Tambalotti, Amazon

Global Trends in Interest Rates (slides)
Discussants: Carlo Favero, Università Bocconi
Stefano Neri, Banca d'Italia
2:45 pm
Break
3:00 pm
Alexander Bick, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Bettina Brueggemann, McMaster University
Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Goethe University Frankfurt
Hannah Paule-Paludkiewicz, Deutsche Bundesbank

Long-Term Changes in Married Couples’ Labor Supply and Taxes: Evidence from the U.S. and Europe Since the 1980s
Discussants: Nezih Guner, CEMFI
Henry E. Siu, University of British Columbia and NBER
4:15 pm
Björn Richter, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Moritz Schularick, Kiel Institute for the World Economy & Sciences Po
Ilhyock Shim, Bank for International Settlements

The Costs of Macroprudential Policy
Discussants: Silvana Tenreyro, London School of Economics
Ozge Akinci, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
5:30 pm
Break
5:45 pm
Closing Remarks
Richard Clarida, Columbia University and NBER
Monetary Policy Rules in Practice : 20 Years Later
6:15 pm
Adjourn
7:30 pm
Dinner at The Pig's Ear Restaurant, 4 Nassau Street, Dublin 2
Saturday, June 30
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Jing Cynthia Wu, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Ji Zhang, Tsinghua University

Global Effective Lower Bound and Unconventional Monetary Policy
Discussants: Peter Karadi, European Central Bank
Anna Lipinska, Federal Reserve Board
10:15 am
Break
10:30 am
Ester Faia, Goethe University Frankfurt
Gianmarco Ottaviano, Bocconi University
Sebastien Laffitte, CYU - Cergy Paris University

Foreign Expansion, Competition and Bank Risk
Discussants: joseluis_peydro
Neeltje Van Horen, Bank of England
11:45 am
Anna Cieslak, Duke University and NBER
Andreas Schrimpf, Bank for International Settlements

Non-Monetary News in Central Bank Communication
Discussants: Christopher Neely, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Roland Straub, European Central Bank
1:00 pm
Lunch and Adjourn
3:00 pm
Afternoon Tour:
National Gallery of Ireland
Trinity College Dublin, The Book of Kells Exhibition
6:30 pm
Dinner at Fallon & Byrne Restaurant, 11-17 Exchequer Street, Dublin 2

Local Contact: Gerard O’Reilly, Senior Advisor and Research Coordinator, Central Bank of Ireland
gerard.oreilly@centralbank.ie
phone 00 353 851065572