THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20:

6:30 PM Dinner

Davios Restaurant

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21:

8:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

8:30 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

8:30 PM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM GITA GOPINATH, Harvard University and NBER

ROBERTO RIGOBON, MIT and NBER

Sticky Borders

Discussant: ARIEL BURSTEIN, UC, Los Angeles

10:00 AM Break

10:15 AM FERNANDO ALVAREZ, University of Chicago and NBER

ANDREW ATKESON, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

PATRICK KEHOE, University of Minnesota, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

and NBER

Time-Varying Risk, Interest Rates and Exchange Rates in General Equilibrium

Discussant: DAVID BACKUS, New York University and NBER

11:15 AM PHILIPPE BACCHETTA, University of Lausanne

ERIC VAN WINCOOP, University of Virginia and NBER

Rational Inattention: A Solution to the Forward Discount Puzzle

Discussant: NELSON MARK, University of Notre Dame and NBER

12:15 PM Lunch

1:15 PM ROBERT FLOOD, IMF

Discussion of EP Recruiting at the IMF

INTERNATIONAL FINANCE AND MACROECONOMICS PROGRAM, PAGE 2:

1:30 PM YAN BAI, Arizona State University

JING ZHANG, University of Michigan

Can Financial Frictions Account for the Cross-Section Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle?

Discussant: VIVIAN YUE, New York University

2:30 PM ANUSHA CHARI, University of Michigan

NANDINI GUPTA, Indiana University

The Political Economy of Foreign Entry Deregulation