SI 2023 Monetary Economics

Emi Nakamura and Jón Steinsson, Organizers

July 10-14, 2023

Charles Room AB

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

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 10
12:15 pm
Lunch
1:15 pm
Joao Ayres, Inter-American Development Bank
Marco Bonomo, Insper Institute of Education and Research
Carlos Carvalho, Kapitalo Investimentos and PUC-Rio
Stefano Eusepi, Brown University
Silvia Matos, IBRE, Getulio Vargas Foundation
Marina Perrupato, IADB
Daniel Abib, University of Western Ontario

Price Setting When Expectations Are Unanchored (slides)
2:00 pm
Ina Hajdini, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Edward S. Knotek II, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
John C. Leer, Morning Consult
Mathieu Pedemonte, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Robert W. Rich, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Raphael Schoenle, Brandeis University

Indirect Consumer Inflation Expectations: Theory and Evidence (slides)
2:45 pm
Break
3:00 pm
Luca Benati, University of Bern

The Monetary Dynamics of Hyperinflation Reconsidered (slides)
3:45 pm
Veronica Backer Peral, Princeton University
Jonathon Hazell, London School of Economics
Atif R. Mian, Princeton University and NBER

The Natural Yield of Capital: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from UK Leaseholds
4:30 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 11
12:15 pm
Lunch
1:15 pm
Eric T. Swanson, University of California, Irvine and NBER
Vishuddhi Jayawickrema

Speeches by the Fed Chair Are More Important than FOMC Announcements: An Improved High-Frequency Measure of U.S. Monetary Policy Shocks
2:00 pm
S. Borağan Aruoba, University of Maryland and NBER
Thomas Drechsel, University of Maryland and NBER

Identifying Monetary Policy Shocks: A Natural Language Approach
2:45 pm
Break
3:00 pm
Niall Ferguson, Harvard University
Martin Kornejew, Bocconi University
Paul Schmelzing, Boston College and Hoover Institution, Stanford
Moritz Schularick, Kiel Institute for the World Economy & Sciences Po

The Safety Net: Central Bank Balance Sheets and Financial Crises (slides)
3:45 pm
Adjourn
The Feldstein Lecture follows at 4:00
Wednesday, July 12
2023
Joint on Wednesday morning with Macro, Money and Financial Frictions and International Finance and Macroeconomics in Ballroom A
Thursday, July 13
12:15 pm
Lunch
1:15 pm
Ben S. Bernanke, Brookings Institution
Olivier J. Blanchard, Peterson Institute for International Economics and NBER

What Caused the U.S. Pandemic-Era Inflation?
2:00 pm
Diego A. Comin, Dartmouth College and NBER
Robert C. Johnson, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Callum J. Jones, Federal Reserve Board

Supply Chain Constraints and Inflation (slides)
2:45 pm
Break
3:00 pm
Dmitriy Sergeyev, Bocconi University
Thuy Lan Nguyen, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Wataru Miyamoto, University of Hong Kong

How Oil Shocks Propagate: Evidence on the Monetary Policy Channel
3:45 pm
David López-Salido, Federal Reserve Board
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, Federal Reserve Board and NBER

Reserve Demand, Interest Rate Control, and Quantitative Tightening
4:30 pm
Gauti B. Eggertsson, Brown University and NBER
Pierpaolo Benigno, University of Bern

It’s Baaack: The Inflation Surge of 2020s and the Return of the Non-Linear Phillips Curve
5:15 pm
Adjourn
Friday, July 14
12:15 pm
Lunch
1:15 pm
Iván Werning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Guido Lorenzoni, University of Chicago and NBER

Inflation is Conflict (slides)
2:00 pm
Regis Barnichon, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Geert Mesters, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Evaluating Policy Institutions ---150 Years of US Monetary Policy---
2:45 pm
Break
3:00 pm
James Cloyne, University of California, Davis and NBER
Patrick Hürtgen, Deutsche Bundesbank
Alan M. Taylor, Columbia University and NBER

Global Monetary and Financial Spillovers: Evidence from a New Measure of Bundesbank Policy Shocks
3:45 pm
Carolin Pflueger, University of Chicago and NBER

Back to the 1980s or Not? The Drivers of Inflation and Real Risks in Treasury Bonds
4:30 pm
Adjourn