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	Matthew Rognlie, Northwestern University and NBER Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER Alp Simsek, Yale University and NBER Investment Hangover and the Great Recession
2:05 pm
2:05 pm	Carlos Carvalho, Kapitalo Investimentos and PUC-Rio Tiago T. Florido, Harvard University Eduardo Zilberman, PUC-Rio Transitions in Central Bank Leadership
3:10 pm
3:10 pm	Alisdair McKay, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Emi Nakamura, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Jón Steinsson, University of California, Berkeley and NBER The Power of Forward Guidance Revisited
Tuesday, July 7
2:05 pm
2:05 pm	James S. Cloyne, University of California, Davis and NBER Paolo Surico, London Business School Clodomiro Ferreira, Bank of Spain Monetary Policy When Households Have Debt: New Evidence on the Transmission Mechanism.
3:10 pm
3:10 pm	Olivier Coibion, University of Texas at Austin and NBER Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Saten Kumar, AUT University How Do Firms Form Their Expectations? New Survey Evidence
Wednesday, July 8
1:00 pm
1:00 pm	Michael Gelman, Claremont McKenna College Shachar Kariv, University of California at Berkeley Matthew D. Shapiro, University of Michigan and NBER Dan Silverman, Amazon, Inc. Steven Tadelis, University of California, Berkeley and NBER How Individuals Smooth Spending: Evidence from the 2013 Government Shutdown Using Account Data
2:05 pm
2:05 pm	Marco Di Maggio, Imperial College Business School Amir Kermani, University of California, Berkeley and NBER The Importance of Unemployment Insurance as an Automatic Stabilizer
3:10 pm
3:10 pm	Gary B. Gorton, Yale University and NBER Ellis Tallman, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland How Did Pre-Fed Banking Panics End?
Thursday, July 9
1:00 pm
1:00 pm	Kinda Cheryl Hachem, University of Virginia and NBER Zheng Michael Song, Chinese University of Hong Kong The Rise of China's Shadow Banking System
2:05 pm
2:05 pm	Pierluigi Balduzzi, Boston College Emanuele Brancati, Sapienza University of Rome Fabio Schiantarelli, Boston College Financial Markets, Banks' Cost of Funding, and Firms' Decisions: Lessons from Two Crises
3:10 pm
3:10 pm	Tyler Muir, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Arvind Krishnamurthy, Stanford University and NBER Credit Spreads and the Severity of Financial Crises
Friday, July 10
8:30 am	Douglas W. Diamond, University of Chicago and NBER Anil Kashyap, University of Chicago and NBER Liquidity Requirements, Liquidity Choice and Financial Stability
2:30 pm	Simon Gilchrist, New York University and NBER Raphael Schoenle, Brandeis University Jae Sim, Federal Reserve Board Egon Zakrašjek Financial Heterogeneity and Monetary Union
3:30 pm	Valentin Haddad, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER David Sraer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER The banking view of bond risk premia