SI 2015 Monetary Economics Workshop

Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer, Organizers

July 6-10, 2015

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Monday, July 6
1:00 pm
1:00 pm	Investment Hangover and the Great Recession
2:05 pm
2:05 pm	Transitions in Central Bank Leadership
3:10 pm
3:10 pm	The Power of Forward Guidance Revisited
Tuesday, July 7
2:05 pm
2:05 pm	Monetary Policy When Households Have Debt: New Evidence on the Transmission Mechanism.
3:10 pm
3:10 pm	How Do Firms Form Their Expectations? New Survey Evidence
Wednesday, July 8
1:00 pm
1:00 pm	How Individuals Smooth Spending: Evidence from the 2013 Government Shutdown Using Account Data
2:05 pm
2:05 pm	The Importance of Unemployment Insurance as an Automatic Stabilizer
3:10 pm
3:10 pm	How Did Pre-Fed Banking Panics End?
Thursday, July 9
1:00 pm
1:00 pm	The Rise of China's Shadow Banking System
2:05 pm
2:05 pm	Financial Markets, Banks' Cost of Funding, and Firms' Decisions: Lessons from Two Crises
3:10 pm
3:10 pm	Credit Spreads and the Severity of Financial Crises
Friday, July 10
8:30 am	Liquidity Requirements, Liquidity Choice and Financial Stability
2:30 pm	Financial Heterogeneity and Monetary Union
3:30 pm	The banking view of bond risk premia