SI 2015 Macroeconomics Within and Across Borders

Mark L.J. Wright, Mark A. Aguiar, and Patrick J. Kehoe, Organizers

July 13-14, 2015

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Monday, July 13
9:00 am	Gaston Navarro, Federal Reserve Board of Governors Juan Pablo Nicolini, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Pedro Teles, Banco de Portugal Joao Ayres, Inter-American Development Bank Sovereign Default: The Role of Expectations
10:15 am	Raquel Fernández, New York University and NBER Alberto Martin, CREI, UPF and BSE The Long and the Short of It: Sovereign Debt Crises and Debt Maturity
11:30 am
11:30 am	Francisco J. Buera, Washington University in St Louis and NBER Ezra Oberfield, Cornell University and NBER The Global Diffusion of Ideas
1:30 pm
1:30 pm	Juan Passadore, International Monetary Fund Juan P. Xandri Antuna, Princeton University Robust Conditional Predictions in Dynamic Games: An Application to Sovereign Debt
2:45 pm
2:45 pm	Martin Beraja, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER Juan Ospina, Central Bank of Colombia The Aggregate Implications of Regional Business Cycles
4:00 pm
4:00 pm	Varadarajan V. Chari, University of Minnesota and NBER Alessandro Dovis, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Patrick Kehoe, Stanford University and NBER Rethinking Optimal Currency Areas
Tuesday, July 14
9:00 am
9:00 am	Diego Perez, New York University and NBER Sovereign Debt, Domestic Banks and the Provision of Public Liquidity
10:05 am
10:05 am	Lee E. Ohanian, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Mark L. J. Wright, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Bad Investments and Missed Opportunities? Postwar Capital Flows to Asia and Latin America
11:10 am
11:10 am	Wenxin Du, Harvard University and NBER Jesse Schreger, Columbia University and NBER Sovereign Risk, Currency Risk, and Corporate Balance Sheets