SI 2020 International Finance & Macroeconomics

Matteo Maggiori and Ina Simonovska, Organizers

July 7-10, 2020

on Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Tuesday, July 7
 Session Structure: 20 minutes presentation, 10 minutes discussion, 5 minutes Q&A, 10 minutes break
11:00 am

Sudden Stops, Productivity, and the Exchange Rate (slides)
Discussant: Ṣebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Brown University and NBER (slides)
11:45 am

Multinational Banks and Financial Stability (slides)
Discussant: Mark A. Aguiar, Princeton University and NBER (slides)
12:30 pm

Dollar and Exports (slides)
Discussant: Felipe Saffie, University of Virginia and NBER
1:15 pm
Adjourn
2:00 pm
ITM meeting
Wednesday, July 8
 Joint session with ME and MEFM
Thursday, July 9
11:00 am

SONOMA: a Small Open ecoNOmy for MAcrofinance (slides)
Discussant: Fabrizio Perri, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (slides)
11:45 am

Integrated Monetary and Financial Policies for Small Open Economies (slides)
Discussant: Maurice Obstfeld, Peterson Institute for International Economics and NBER (slides)
12:20 pm

The Global Impact of Brexit Uncertainty (slides)
Discussant: Silvana Tenreyro, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (slides)
1:15 pm
Adjourn
IFM Data Sources Project meeting follows on Thursday afternoon
Friday, July 10
11:00 am

Foreign Shocks as Granular Fluctuations (slides)
Discussant: Ariel Burstein, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER (slides)
11:45 am

Heterogeneous Global Cycles (slides)
Discussant: Luca Fornaro, Center for Research in International Economics (slides)
12:30 pm

Coping with Disasters: Two Centuries of International Official Lending (slides)
Discussant: Chenzi Xu, University of California, Berkeley and NBER (slides)
1:15 pm
Adjourn
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Unstructured small meetings between senior and junior faculty in breakout rooms