NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Universities Research Conference

 

Structural Changes in the Global Economy:

Implications for Monetary Policy and Financial Regulation

 

December 9-10, 2005

 

Andrew Abel and Janice Eberly, Organizers

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2005:

 

 9:30 am          Registration and Continental Breakfast

 

10:00 am         OWEN IRVINE, Michigan State University

SCOTT SCHUH, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

The Roles of Comovement and Inventory Investment in the Reduction of Output Volatility

                       

                        Discussant:  WILLIAM DUPOR, Ohio State University

 

11:00 am         Break

 

11:30 am         STEPHEN CECCHETTI, Brandeis University and NBER

                        ALFONSO FLORES-LAGUNES, University of Arizona

                        STEFAN KRAUSE, Emory University

                        Assessing the Sources of Changes in the Volatility of Real Growth

 

                        Discussant:  JAMES STOCKHarvard University and NBER

 

12:30 pm         Lunch

 

 1:30 pm          SEBNEM KALEMLI-OZCAN, University of Houston and NBER\

                        ARIELL RESHEF, New York University

BENT SORENSEN, University of Houston

OVED YOSHA

                        Productivity and Capital Flows: Evidence from U.S.States

 

                        Discussant:  JOHN COLEMAN, Duke University

 

 2:30 pm          Break

 

 3:00 pm          CHARLES TRZCINKA and ANDREY UKHOV, Indiana University

                        Financial Globalization and Risk Sharing: Welfare Effects and the Optimality of Open Markets 

                       

                        slides

 

                        Discussant:   LEONID KOGAN, MIT and NBER

 

 4:00 pm          GIOVANNI OLIVEI, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

                        SILVANA TENREYRO, London School of Economics

                        The Timing of Monetary Policy Shocks

 

                        Discussant:  MARC GIANNONI, Columbia University and NBER

 

 5:00 pm          Adjourn

 

 6:00 pm          Group Dinner

                        Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2005:

 

 8:30 am          Continental Breakfast

 

 9:00 am          HOYT BLEAKLEY, UC, San Diego

                        KEVIN COWAN, Inter-American Development Bank

                        Maturity Mismatch and Financial Crises: Evidence from Emerging Market Corporations

 

                        Discussant:  MARK AGUIAR, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

 

10:00 am         Break

 

10:30 am         PRASANNA GAI, Bank of England

                        PETER KONDOR, London School of Economics

NICHOLAS VAUSE, Bank of England

                        Procyclicality, Collateral Values, and Financial Stability

           

                        Discussant:  ADRIANO RAMPINI, Northwestern University

 

11:30 am         SÖHNKE BARTRAM, Lancaster University

                        GREGORY BROWN, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

                        JOHN HUND, University of Texas at Austin

                        Estimating Systemic Risk in the International Financial System

 

                        Discussant:  CRAIG FURFINE, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 

12:30 pm         Adjourn

 

11/29/05