SI 2018 IFM Data Sources Project

Galina Hale and Michael W. Klein, Organizers

July 12, 2018

Charles Room

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

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, July 12
5:00 pm
Opening remarks
Galina Hale, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Michael Klein,Tufts University and NBER
5:05 pm
Stefan Avdjiev, Bank for International Settlements
Hyun Song Shin, Bank for International Settlements
Philip Wooldridge, Bank for International Settlements

The Enhanced BIS International Banking Statistics (slides)
5:25 pm
Carlos A. Vegh, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
Guillermo Vuletin, The World Bank

Novel Global Tax Rate Data Set
5:45 pm
Wenxin Du, Harvard University and NBER
Joanne I. Im, MIT Sloan School of Management
Jesse Schreger, Columbia University and NBER

A Dataset for Covered Interest Rate Parity Deviations Between Government Bond Yields (slides)
6:05 pm
Andrés Fernández, International Monetary Fund
Ernesto Stein, Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública

Competition-adjusted Measures of Real Exchange Rates
6:30 pm
Adjourn