CESifo Area Conference on Macro, Money, and International Finance 2021
Online
Scientific organizer: Professor Markus K. Brunnermeier
The 2021 CESifo Area Conference on Macro, Money, and International Finance will take place as an online event. CESifo and the Area Director of the Macro Research Area, Markus Brunnermeier, are delighted to welcome Thomas Sargent (NYU) as the keynote speaker.
Paper submission for this conference is now closed.
Program
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14:00 – 14:10 Welcome by Markus Brunnermeier 14:10 – 14:45 A Macro-Finance Model with Realistic Crisis Dynamics
GOUTHAM GOPALAKRISHNA (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Discussant: Fernando Mendo (Banco Central de Chile)14:50 – 15:25 Money Creation in Decentralized Finance: A Dynamic Model of Stablecoins and Crypto Shadow Banking
YE LI (Ohio State University), Simon Mayer
Discussant: Jonathan Payne (Princeton)15:30 – 16:05 A Model of Credit, Money, Interest, and Prices
SAKI BIGIO (UCLA), Yuliy Sannikov
Discussants: Quentin Vandeweyer (Chicago Booth), Joseph Abadi (FRBPhiladelphia)16:10 – 16:45 Flight-to-Safety in a New Keynesian Model
Ziang Li, SEBASTIAN MERKEL (Princeton University)
Discussants: Andrey Alexandrov (University of Mannheim), Nicolas Caramp (University of California, Davis)16:50 – 17:25 Financial Cycles under Diagnostic Beliefs
Antoine Camous, ALEJANDRO VAN DER GHOTE (ECB)
Discussant: Paymon Khorrami (Imperial College)17:30 – 18:30 Keynote Lecture
US Debt and Taxes: 1776-2020
THOMAS SARGENT (New York University)
Networking
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14:00 – 14:35 Optimal Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Firms
Beatriz González, Galo Nuño, DOMINIK THALER (Banco de España), Silvia
Albrizio
Discussant: Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (University of Pennsylvania)14:40 – 15:15 Dissecting Mechanisms of Financial Crises: Intermediation and Sentiment
Arvind Krishnamurthy, WENHAO LI (USC Marshall)
Discussants: Sanjay Singh (UC Davis), Dejanir Silva (UIUC)15:20 – 15:55 Monetary Policy with Opinionated Markets
Ricardo Caballero, ALP SIMSEK (MIT)
Discussants: Sebastian Di Tella (Stanford), Raphael Schoenle (FRB Cleveland)16:00 – 16:35 Regulation Q Inflation
ITAMAR DRECHSLER (Wharton), Alexi Savov, Philipp Schnabl
Discussants: Yann Koby (Brown University), Todd Keister (Rutgers)Speed papers: 16:40 – 16:55 Currency Hedging in Emerging Markets: Managing Cash Flow Exposure
Laura Alfaro, MAURICIO CALANI (Banco Central de Chile), Liliana Varela17:00 – 17:15 Negative Interest Rates and Firm Investment: The Role of Business Expectations
CHRISTA HAINZ (ifo Institute), Christian Grimme17:20 – 17:35 Learning to Make Consumption-Saving Decisions in a Changing
Environment: An AI Approach
RUI SHI (University of Warwick)17:40 – 17:55 Scrambling for Dollars: International Liquidity, Banks, and Exchange Rates
Javier Bianchi, Saki Bigio, CHARLES ENGEL (University of Wisconsin)
End of Conference
*Presenting Authors are denoted in capital letters
*Co-Authors (denoted in italics) will answer questions during the presentation
Conference Platform
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Things you should know before joining our conference on Zoom:
- To join the conference, please click the link in the email we send you one day prior to the conference and enter the passcode. Please join the meeting a few minutes in advance in order to allow a prompt start
- We recommend that you install/download the Zoom Desktop client or make sure that you have the current version
- Ensure you have good audio, and are sitting in a quiet setting
- We recommend using a headset and webcam
- As a courtesy to each presenter, all speakers, co-authors, and discussants are kindly asked to leave their camera on for the duration of the conference.
- Ensure to have your slides open on your desktop, ready to present
- When it’s your turn to present, make sure your microphone is unmuted and your video is on, and look directly into the camera
- Click the green Share Screen button in the Zoom window, enlarge your slides to full-screen or slide-show mode, and begin your talk
- At the end of your presentation, be sure to click the Stop Share button
- Please mute your microphone if you are not speaking