Monetary Economics Program Meeting

Kilian Huber and Eric R. Sims, Organizers

March 1, 2024

Format: 1 hour per paper, with 20 minutes for the author, 20 for the discussant, and 20 for the general discussion.

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, March 1
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University and NBER
Matthew Smith, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Owen M. Zidar, Princeton University and NBER
Eric Zwick, The University of Chicago and NBER

Tax Policy and Investment in a Global Economy
Discussant: Alan J. Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Break
10:15 am
Anna Cieslak, Duke University and NBER
Michael McMahon, University of Oxford

Tough Talk: The Fed and the Risk Premium
Discussant: Ian Dew-Becker, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Break
11:30 am
Thomas Drechsel, Johns Hopkins University and NBER

Estimating the Effects of Political Pressure on the Fed: A Narrative Approach with New Data
Discussant: Amy Handlan, Brown University
Lunch - Illinois Room 3
1:30 pm
Lukas Hack, ETH Zurich
Klodiana Istrefi, European Central Bank
Matthias Meier, University of Mannheim

Identification of Systematic Monetary Policy
Discussant: Regis Barnichon, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Break
2:45 pm
Tomás E. Caravello, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alisdair McKay, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Christian K. Wolf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Evaluating Policy Counterfactuals: A "VAR-Plus" Approach
Discussant: Diego R. Känzig, Northwestern University and NBER
Break
4:00 pm
Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Mauricio Ulate, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Jose P. Vasquez, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Trade with Nominal Rigidities: Understanding the Unemployment and Welfare Effects of the China Shock
Discussant: Adrien Auclert, Stanford University and NBER
Adjourn