SI 2016 Monetary Economics

Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer, Organizers

July 11-15, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 11
1:00 pm
Christopher Foote, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Lara Loewenstein, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Paul S. Willen, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and NBER

Cross-Sectional Patterns of Mortgage Debt During the Housing Boom: Stocks and Flows
2:05 pm
David W. Berger, Duke University and NBER
Nicholas Turner, Federal Reserve Board
Eric Zwick, University of Chicago and NBER

Stimulating Housing Markets
3:10 pm
Narayana R. Kocherlakota, University of Rochester and NBER

Sluggish Inflation Expectations: A Markov Chain Analysis
Tuesday, July 12
1:00 pm
Cindy Vojtech, Federal Reserve Board
Benjamin Kay, Federal Reserve Board
John C. Driscoll, Federal Reserve Board

The Real Consequences of Bank Mortgage Lending Standards
2:05 pm
David Aikman, Bank of England
Oliver Bush, Bank of England
Alan M. Taylor, Columbia University and NBER

Monetary versus Macroprudential Policies: Causal Impacts of Interest Rates and Credit Controls in the era of the UK Radcliffe Report
3:10 pm
Jon S. Cohen, University of Toronto
Kinda Cheryl Hachem, University of Virginia and NBER
Gary Richardson, University of California, Irvine and NBER

Relationship Lending and the Great Depression: Measurement and New Implications
Thursday, July 14
1:00 pm
Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University and NBER
Loukas Karabarbounis, University of Minnesota and NBER

The Limited Macroeconomic E ffects of Unemployment Benefi t Extensions
2:05 pm
Nittai Bergman, Tel Aviv University
Rajkamal Iyer, Imperial College London
Richard T. Thakor, University of Minnesota

The Effect of Cash Injections: Evidence from the 1980s Farm Debt Crisis
3:10 pm
Laurence M. Ball, Johns Hopkins University and NBER

The Fed and Lehman Brothers
Friday, July 15
2:30 pm
Emi Nakamura, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jón Steinsson, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Patrick K. Sun, Federal Communications Commission
Daniel Villar, Federal Reserve Board

The Elusive Costs of Inflation: Price Dispersion during the U.S. Great Inflation
3:35 pm
Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Stefan Nagel, University of Chicago and NBER
Zhen Yan, University of Michigan

The Making of Hawks and Doves: Inflation Experiences and Voting on the FOMC