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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2015 Macroeconomics Within and Across Borders

Mark L. J. Wright, Mark A. Aguiar, and Patrick Kehoe, Organizers

July 13-14, 2015

Skyline Rooms
Royal Sonesta Hotel
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Monday, July 13
8:30 am	Coffee and pastries
9:00 am	Gaston Navarro, New York University Juan Pablo Nicolini, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Pedro Teles, Banco de Portugal Joao Ayres, University of Minnesota Sovereign Default: The Role of Expectations
10:15 am	Break
10:15 am	Raquel Fernández, New York University and NBER Alberto Martin, Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional The Long and the Short of It: Sovereign Debt Crises and Debt Maturity
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	Francisco J. Buera, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Ezra Oberfield, Princeton University and NBER The Global Diffusion of Ideas
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Juan Passadore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Juan P. Xandri Antuna, Princeton University Robust Conditional Predictions in Dynamic Games: An Application to Sovereign Debt
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER Martin Beraja, University of Chicago Juan Ospina, University of Chicago The Aggregate Implications of Regional Business Cycles
3:45 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Varadarajan V. Chari, University of Minnesota and NBER Alessandro Dovis, Pennsylvania State University and NBER Patrick Kehoe, University of Minnesota and NBER Rethinking Optimal Currency Areas
5:00 pm	Adjourn
Tuesday, July 14
8:30 am	Coffee and pastries
9:00 am	Diego Perez, Stanford University Sovereign Debt, Domestic Banks and the Provision of Public Liquidity
9:50 am	Break
10:05 am	Lee E. Ohanian, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Mark L. J. Wright, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and NBER Bad Investments and Missed Opportunities? Postwar Capital Flows to Asia and Latin America
10:55 am	Break
11:10 am	Jesse Schreger, Harvard University Wenxin Du, Federal Reserve Board Sovereign Risk, Currency Risk, and Corporate Balance Sheets
12:00 noon	Lunch and adjourn