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, Center for Research on International Economics
Daragh Clancy, European Stability Mechanism
Aitor Erce, European Stability Mechanism
Alberto Martin, CREI, UPF and BSE

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, DIW Berlin
Carmen M. Reinhart, Harvard University and NBER
Christoph Trebesch, Kiel Institute for the World Economy

Sovereign Bonds since Waterloo
Discussant: Ṣebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Brown University 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