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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SI 2016 Monetary Economics

 

Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer, Organizers

 

July 11-15, 2016

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Charles Suites
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA


 

PROGRAM

Monday, July 11

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

1:00 pm

Paul S. Willen, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and NBER
Christopher Foote, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Lara Loewenstein, Brandeis University
Cross-Sectional Patterns of Mortgage Debt During the Housing Boom: Stocks and Flows
 

1:55 pm

Break

2:05 pm

David W. Berger, Northwestern University and NBER
Nicholas Turner, Department of the Treasury
Eric Zwick, University of Chicago and NBER
Stimulating Housing Markets
 

3:00 pm

Break

3:10 pm

Narayana R. Kocherlakota, University of Rochester and NBER
Sluggish Inflation Expectations: A Markov Chain Analysis
 

4:05 pm

Adjourn

 

 

Tuesday, July 12

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

1:00 pm

Cindy Vojtech, Federal Reserve Board
Benjamin Kay, Department of the Treasury
John C. Driscoll, Federal Reserve Board
The Real Consequences of Bank Mortgage Lending Standards
 

1:55 pm

Break

2:05 pm

David Aikman, Bank of England
Oliver Bush, Bank of England
Alan M. Taylor, University of California at Davis and NBER
Monetary versus Macroprudential Policies: Causal Impacts of Interest Rates and Credit Controls in the Era of the UK Radcliffe Report
 

3:00 pm

Break

3:10 pm

Jon S. Cohen, University of Toronto
Kinda Cheryl Hachem, University of Chicago and NBER
Gary Richardson, University of California at Irvine and NBER
Relationship Lending and the Great Depression: Measurement and New Implications
 

4:05 pm

Adjourn

Wednesday, July 13

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

Afternoon session joint with Macro, Money and Financial Frictions 

 

1:00 pm

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Daniel Sanches, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Can Currency Competition Work?

Discussant: Stephen Williamson, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

 

2:00 pm

Break

 

2:30 pm

Juliane Begenau, Harvard University and NBER
Tim Landvoigt, University of Texas at Austin
Financial Regulation in a Quantitative Model of the Modern Banking System

Discussant: Mark Gertler, New York University and NBER

 

3:30 pm

Andrea Caggese, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Ander Perez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Boston University
Reallocation of Intangible Capital and Secular Stagnation

Discussant: Maryam Farboodi, Princeton University

 

4:30 pm

Adjourn

6:00 pm

Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

 

Thursday, July 14

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

1:00 pm

Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University and NBER
Loukas Karabarbounis,
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER
The Limited Macroeconomic Effects of Unemployment Benefi
t Extensions

 

1:55 pm

Break

2:05 pm

Nittai Bergman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Rajkamal Iyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard T. Thakor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Effect of Cash Injections: Evidence from the 1980s Farm Debt Crisis
 

3:00 pm

Lunch

3:10 pm

Laurence M. Ball, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
The Fed and Lehman Brothers
 

4:05 pm

Adjourn

 

 

Friday, July 15

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

1:00 pm

Discussion with John Williams
President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

2:15 pm

Break

2:30 pm

Emi Nakamura, Columbia University and NBER
Jón Steinsson, Columbia University and NBER
Patrick K. Sun, Federal Communications Commission
Daniel Villar, Columbia University
The Elusive Costs of Inflation: Price Dispersion during the U.S. Great Inflation
 

3:25 pm

Break

3:35 pm

Ulrike Malmendier, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Stefan Nagel, University of Michigan and NBER
Zhen Yan, University of Michigan
The Making of Hawks and Doves: Inflation Experiences and Voting on the FOMC

on the FOMC
 

4:30 pm

Adjourn