SI 2018 International Finance & Macroeconomics

Manuel Amador and Andrei A. Levchenko, Organizers

July 12-13, 2018

Charles Room

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Wednesday, July 11
Financial Crisis@10 West Tower, Ballroom, second floor
6:00 pm
Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Thursday, July 12
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am
Gita Gopinath, International Monetary Fund
Jeremy C. Stein, Harvard University and NBER

Banking, Trade, and the Making of a Dominant Currency
Discussant: Hyun Song Shin, Bank for International Settlements
9:30 am
Break
9:45 am
Dmitry Mukhin, London School of Economics

An Equilibrium Model of the International Price System
Discussant: Michael B. Devereux, University of British Columbia and NBER
10:45 am
Break
11:00 am
Fernando Broner, CREI
Daragh Clancy, European Stability Mechanism
Aitor Erce, European Stability Mechanism
Alberto Martin, European Central Bank

Fiscal Multipliers and Foreign Holdings of Public Debt
Discussant: Neele L. Balke, University of Chicago
12:00 n
Lunch and Adjourn
1:00 pm
International Trade & Macroeconomics
5:00 pm
IFM Data Sources Project
Friday, July 13
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am
Josefin Meyer, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Carmen M. Reinhart, Harvard University and NBER
Christoph Trebesch, Kiel Institute for the World Economy

Sovereign Bonds since Waterloo
Discussant: Ṣebnem Kalemli-Özcan, University of Maryland and NBER
9:30 am
Break
9:45 am
Filippo De Marco
Marco Macchiavelli, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Rosen Valchev, Boston College and NBER

Beyond Home Bias: Portfolio Holdings and Information Heterogeneity
Discussant: Laura Veldkamp, Columbia University and NBER
10:45 am
Break
11:00 am
Thomas Wright, HM Treasury
Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

The Exorbitant Tax Privilege
Discussant: Ellen McGrattan, University of Minnesota and NBER
12:00 n
Lunch
1:00 pm
Zhengyang Jiang, Northwestern University and NBER
Arvind Krishnamurthy, Stanford University and NBER
Hanno Lustig, Stanford University and NBER

Foreign Safe Asset Demand and the Dollar Exchange Rate
Discussant: Jesse Schreger, Columbia University and NBER
2:00 pm
Break
2:15 pm
Andres Blanco, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Javier Cravino, University of Michigan and NBER

Price Rigidities and Relative PPP
Discussant: Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
3:15 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Pablo Sebastian Fanelli
Ludwig Straub, Harvard University and NBER

A Theory of Foreign Exchange Interventions
Discussant: Guido Lorenzoni, University of Chicago and NBER
4:30 pm
Break
4:45 pm
Giancarlo Corsetti, University of Cambridge
Meredith Crowley, University of Cambridge
Lu Han, Bank of Canada
Huasheng Song, Zhejiang University

Markets and Markups: A New Empirical Strategy and Evidence on Exporters from China
Discussant: Doireann Fitzgerald, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
5:45 pm
Adjourn