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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

                         

 

INTERNATIONAL FINANCE AND MACROECONOMICS PROGRAM MEETING

 

 

 

Charles Engel and Linda Tesar, Organizers

 

 

 

October 9, 2009

 

 

 

NBER

 

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

 

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

 

 

PROGRAM

 

 

 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2009

 

 

6:30 pm

Dinner

 

Bambara Restaurant at Hotel Marlowe

 

25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard (Across the street from Royal Sonesta Hotel)

 

Cambridge, MA

 

 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2009

 

 

7:45 am

Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

8:00 am

Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

 

 

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:30 am

ANDREW ROSE, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

MARK SPIEGEL, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

 

Cross-Country Causes and Consequences of the 2008 Crisis: Early Warning

 

 

 

Cross-Country Causes and Consequences of the 2008: International Linkages

 

and American Exposure

 

 

 

Discussant:  GRACIELA KAMINSKY, George Washington University and NBER

 

 

9:30 am

Coffee Break

 

 

10:00 am

LAURA ALFARO, Harvard University and NBER

 

FAISAL AHMED,  University of Chicago

 

The Price of Capital: Evidence from Trade Data

 

 

 

Discussant:  GITA GOPINATH, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

11:00 am

EDUARDO BORENSZTEIN, Inter-American Development Bank

 

OLIVIER JEANNE, Johns Hopkins University and NBER

 

DAMIANO SANDRI, IMF

 

Macro-Hedging for Commodity Exporters

 

 

 

Discussant:  ENRIQUE MENDOZA, University of Maryland and NBER

 

 

12:00 pm

Lunch

 

 

12:45 pm

NICOLAS COEURDACIER, London Business School

 

PIERRE-OLIVIER GOURINCHAS, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

When Bonds Matter: Home Bias in Goods and Assets

 

 

 

Discussant:  FABRIZIO PERRI, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

 

1:45 pm

Coffee Break

 

 

2:15 pm

OSCAR JORDA, UC, Davis

 

ALAN TAYLOR, UC, Davis and NBER

 

The Carry Trade and Fundamentals: Nothing to Fear but FEER Itself

 

 

 

Discussant: ADRIEN VERDELHAN, MIT and NBER

 

 

3:15 pm

BERNARD DUMAS, INSEAD and NBER

 

KAREN LEWIS, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

EMILIO OSAMBELA, Carnegie-Mellon University

 

Differences of Opinion in an International Financial Market Equilibrium

 

 

 

Discussant:  URBAN JERMANN, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

4:15 pm

Adjourn

 

 

9/8/09