Monetary Economics Program Meeting

Gabriel Chodorow-Reich and Simon Gilchrist, Organizers

November 2, 2018

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Charles Suites, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, November 1
6:30 pm
Dinner
Dante Restaurant (Royal Sonesta Hotel)
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA
Friday, November 2
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
George-Marios Angeletos, Northwestern University and NBER
Zhen Huo, Yale University

Myopia and Anchoring
Discussant: Christopher A. Sims, Princeton University
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am
Olivier Coibion, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Tiziano Ropele, Bank of Italy

Inflation Expectations and Firm Decisions: New Causal Evidence (slides)
Discussant: Luminita Stevens, University of Maryland
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am
Francesco D’Acunto, Georgetown University
Daniel Hoang, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Maritta Paloviita, Bank of Finland
Michael Weber, University of Chicago and NBER

Human Frictions to the Transmission of Economic Policy
Discussant: Nicola Gennaioli, Bocconi University
12:30 pm
Lunch-Somerset Room
1:30 pm
David W. Berger, Duke University and NBER
Konstantin Milbradt, Northwestern University and NBER
Fabrice Tourre, Baruch College
Joseph S. Vavra, University of Chicago and NBER

Mortgage Prepayment and Path-Dependent Effects of Monetary Policy
Discussant: Daniel Greenwald, New York University and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm
Atif R. Mian, Princeton University and NBER
Amir Sufi, University of Chicago and NBER

Credit Supply and Housing Speculation
Discussant: Paul S. Willen, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and NBER
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm
Ben S. Bernanke, Brookings Institution

The Real Effects of the Financial Crisis
Discussant: Jeremy C. Stein, Harvard University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn