Monetary Economics Program Meeting

Anna Cieslak and Olivier Coibion, Organizers

November 12, 2021

on Zoom

Friday, November 12

11:00 am

Alisdair McKay, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Christian K. Wolf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

What Can Time-Series Regressions Tell Us About Policy Counterfactuals?

Discussant:

Christiane Baumeister, University of Notre Dame and NBER

11:45 am

Igor Makarov, London School of Economics
Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Blockchain Analysis of the Bitcoin Market

Discussant:

Hyun Song Shin, Bank for International Settlements

12:30 pm

Discussions in breakout rooms

1:00 pm

John Coglianese, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Maria Olsson, BI Norwegian Business School
Christina Patterson, University of Chicago and NBER

Monetary Policy and the Labor Market: A Quasi-Experiment in Sweden

Discussant:

Pascal Paul, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

1:45 pm

Cecilia R. Caglio, Federal Reserve Board
Matthew Darst, Federal Reserve Board
Ṣebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Brown University and NBER

Risk-Taking and Monetary Policy Transmission: Evidence from Loans to SMEs and Large Firms

Discussant:

Olivier Darmouni, Columbia University

2:30 pm

Discussions in breakout rooms

3:00 pm

Fernando E. Alvarez, University of Chicago and NBER
Andrea Ferrara, Northwestern University
Erwan Gautier, Banque de France
Herve Le Bihan, Banque de France
Francesco Lippi, LUISS Guido Carli University

Empirical Investigation of a Sufficient Statistic for Monetary Shocks

Discussant:

Raphael Schoenle, Brandeis University

3:45 pm

Chengcheng Jia, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Jing Cynthia Wu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER

Average Inflation Targeting: Time Inconsistency and Intentional Ambiguity

Discussant:

Andrew T. Levin, Dartmouth College and NBER

4:30 pm

Discussions in breakout rooms

5:00 pm

Adjourn