SI 2024 Impulse and Propagation Mechanisms

Lawrence Christiano and Martin S. Eichenbaum, Organizers

July 8-12, 2024

University BC

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

Monday, July 8
9:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:30 am	What Central Bankers Can Learn from Models with Idiosyncratic Risk
10:15 am	Disaggregated Economic Accounts
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	Smooth Diagnostic Expectations
12:00 pm	The Distributional Effects of Asset Returns
12:45 pm	Lunch and Adjourn
Tuesday, July 9
9:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:30 am	Fiscal Backing, Inflation and US Business Cycles
10:15 am	Evaluating Policy Counterfactuals: A "VAR-Plus" Approach
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	Escaping the Financial Dollarization Trap: The Role of Foreign Exchange Intervention
12:00 pm	The Surge in Emerging Markets’ International Reserves and the Rise in Global Volatility
12:45 pm	Lunch and Adjourn
Wednesday, July 10
9:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:30 am	A Framework for Geoeconomics
10:15 am	Mixed Signals? How Media Distills Central Bank Messages (slides)
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	Distorted Beliefs, Asset Pricing and Monetary Policy
12:00 pm	Nonlinear Cost Price Dynamics: Firm Level Evidence and Aggregate Consequences (slides)
12:45 pm	Lunch and Adjourn
Thursday, July 11
9:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:30 am	Greed? Profits, Inflation, and Aggregate Demand
10:15 am	Why do Workers Dislike Inflation? Wage Erosion and Conflict Costs
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	What Can Measured Beliefs Tell Us About Monetary Non-Neutrality?
12:00 pm	Tell me Something I don't Already Know
12:45 pm	Lunch and Adjourn
Friday, July 12
9:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:30 am	Heterogeneous Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity: Foundations of a Nonlinear Phillips Curve (slides)
10:15 am	The Inflation Accelerator
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	The Inflation Attention Threshold and Inflation Surges (slides)
12:00 pm	Monetary Policy and Inflation Scares
12:45 pm	Lunch and Adjourn