SI 2022 International Finance & Macroeconomics

Galina Hale and Fabrizio Perri, Organizers

July 12-15, 2022

Charles Room AB

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

Conference Code of Conduct

Tuesday, July 12
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am

Optimal Bailouts in Banking and Sovereign Crises
Discussant: Markus K. Brunnermeier, Princeton University and NBER
9:30 am
Break
9:45 am

Information Spillovers and Sovereign Debt: Theory Meets the Eurozone Crisis (slides)
Discussant: Venky Venkateswaran, New York University and NBER
10:45 am
Break
11:00 am

Internationalizing Like China
Discussant: Manuel Amador, University of Minnesota and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch and Adjourn
International Trade & Macroeconomics follows at 2:00 pm
Wednesday, July 13
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning Joint with MEFM and ME
8:30 am

Is this Time Different? Financial Follies across Centuries
Discussant: Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
9:30 am
Break
9:45 am

The US, Economic News, and the Global Financial Cycle (slides)
Discussant: Jesse Schreger, Columbia University and NBER
10:45 am
Break
11:00 am

The Coming Battle of Digital Currencies
Discussant: Harald Uhlig, University of Chicago and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch and Adjourn
International Finance and Macroeconomic Data Sources follows at 5:00 pm
Thursday, July 14
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am

Real Exchange Rate Dynamics Beyond Business Cycles (slides)
Discussant: Viktoria Hnatkovska, University of British Columbia
9:30 am
Break
9:45 am

Global Stagflation and Reverse Currency Wars (slides)
Discussant: Elisa Rubbo, University of Chicago and NBER
10:45 am
Break
11:00 am

Optimal Exchange Rate Policy
Discussant: Iván Werning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch and Adjourn
Friday, July 15
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am

Protectionism Unchained: Determinants and Consequences of Discretionary Trade Policy in Argentina (slides)
Discussant: Lorenzo Caliendo, Yale University and NBER
9:30 am
Break
9:45 am

Global Demand for Financial Assets, Falling Real Interest Rates and Macroeconomic Instability
Discussant: Ludwig Straub, Harvard University and NBER
10:45 am
Break
11:00 am

Fiscal Policy in the Age of COVID: Does it ‘Get in all of the Cracks?’ (slides)
Discussant: David Baqaee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch and Adjourn