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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

31st Annual Conference on Macroeconomics

Martin Eichenbaum and Jonathan Parker, Organizers

April 15 and 16, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Riverfront Room (East Tower, 2nd Floor)

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, MA
 

PROGRAM

Friday, April 15: 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

Jeffrey Campbell, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Jonas Fisher, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Alejandro Justiniano, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Leonardo Melosi, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Forward Guidance and Macroeconomic Outcomes Since the Financial Crisis

 

Discussants:

Narayana Kocherlakota, University of Rochester and NBER

Gauti B. Eggertsson, Brown University and NBER

 

 

10:30 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

Fernando Alvarez, University of Chicago and NBER
Francesco Lippi,
Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
Juan Passadore,
Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
Are State and Time Dependent Models Really Different?

Discussants:

John Leahy, University of Michigan and NBER

 

Greg Kaplan, Princeton University and NBER

12:30 pm

Lunch – Parkview Room (East Tower, 2nd Floor)

Panel on Global Commodity Prices
James D. Hamilton, University of California at San Diego and NBER
Steven B. Kamin, Federal Reserve Board
Steven Strongin, Goldman Sachs

 2:30 pm

Paul Beaudry, University of British Columbia and NBER
Dana Galizia,
Carleton University
Franck Portier, Toulouse School of Economics
Is the Macroeconomy Locally Unstable and Why Should We Care?

Discussants:

Laura Veldkamp, New York University and NBER

Ivan Werning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

4:00 pm

Break

 

 

4:30 pm

Òscar Jordà, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Moritz Schularick, University of Bonn
Alan M. Taylor, University of California at Davis and NBER
Macrofinancial History and the New Business Cycle Facts

Discussants:

Mark Gertler, New York University and NBER
Atif Mian, Princeton University and NBER

6:00 pm

Adjourn

 

6:30 pm

Reception and Dinner – Longfellow Rooms (West Tower, 1st Floor)

Dinner Speaker:  Lawrence Summers, Harvard University and NBER

Saturday, April 16:

 

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Thomas Philippon, New York University and NBER
Dimitri Vayanos, London School of Economics and NBER
The Analytics of the Greek Crisis

Discussants:

Olivier Blanchard, Peterson Institute for International Economics and NBER

Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University and NBER

 

10:30 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

Olivier Blanchard, Peterson Institute for International Economics and NBER
Christopher Erceg, Federal Reserve Board
Jesper Lindé, Sveriges Riksbank
Jump-Starting the Euro Area Recovery: Would a Rise in Core Fiscal Spending Help the Periphery?

Discussants:

Harald Uhlig, University of Chicago and NBER

Ricardo Reis, Columbia University and NBER

12:30 pm

Adjourn