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
Laura Castillo-Martinez, Duke University

Sudden Stops, Productivity, and the Exchange Rate (slides)
Discussant: Ṣebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Brown University and NBER (slides)
11:45 am
Christopher D. Clayton, Yale University and NBER
Andreas J. Schaab, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Multinational Banks and Financial Stability (slides)
Discussant: Mark A. Aguiar, Princeton University and NBER (slides)
12:30 pm
Valentina Bruno, American University and NBER
Hyun Song Shin, Bank for International Settlements

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
Mariano Max Croce, Bocconi University
Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Samuel Rosen, Temple University

SONOMA: a Small Open ecoNOmy for MAcrofinance (slides)
Discussant: Fabrizio Perri, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (slides)
11:45 am
Suman Basu, International Monetary Fund
Emine Boz, International Monetary Fund
Gita Gopinath, Harvard University and NBER
Francisco Roch, International Monetary Fund
Filiz D. Unsal, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Integrated Monetary and Financial Policies for Small Open Economies (slides)
Discussant: Maurice Obstfeld, Peterson Institute for International Economics and NBER (slides)
12:20 pm
Tarek Alexander Hassan, Boston University and NBER
Stephan Hollander, Tilburg University
Laurence van Lent, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Ahmed Tahoun, London Business School

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
Julian di Giovanni, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Andrei A. Levchenko, University of Michigan and NBER
Isabelle Mejean, Sciences Po

Foreign Shocks as Granular Fluctuations (slides)
Discussant: Ariel Burstein, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER (slides)
11:45 am
Maryam Farboodi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Peter Kondor, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Heterogeneous Global Cycles (slides)
Discussant: Luca Fornaro, Center for Research in International Economics (slides)
12:30 pm
Sebastian Horn, University of Hamburg
Carmen M. Reinhart, Harvard University and NBER
Christoph Trebesch, Kiel Institute for the World Economy

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