International Macro Finance Conference
This conference brought together a small group of faculty working at the intersection of international finance and international macro finance.
Nov–Dec
30-1
2018
Technological change is leading to a world where markets for goods, services, assets, and workers are all becoming truly global. Research can play an important role in informing how businesses, consumers, and policymakers respond. This year’s conference, hosted by the Becker Friedman Institute’s International Economics Initiative, brought together a small group of faculty working at the intersection of international finance and international macro finance to discuss early stage research in an informal setting.
Previous Conference Agendas: 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013
Agenda
Friday, November 30, 2018
11:30 am - 12:15 pm
Welcome Lunch: Gleacher Center, Room 420
12:30 pm
Program Begins: Gleacher Center, Room 408
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Monetary Policy Spillovers through Invoicing Currencies
Tony Zhang, Boston University
1:30 pm - 1:40 pm
BREAK
1:40 pm - 2:40 pm
Currency Choice in Contracts
Andres Drenik, Columbia University
2:40 pm - 2:50 pm
BREAK
2:50 pm - 3:50 pm
An Equilibrium Model of the International Price System
Dmitry Mukhin, Yale University
3:50 pm - 4:00 pm
BREAK
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Firm-Level Structural Change: Supply and Demand Effects of Financial Liberalization
Felipe Saffie, University of Maryland
Liliana Varela, University of Warwick
5:00 pm
Conference adjourns for the day
7:00 pm
Conference dinner
The Albert, 228 East Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Saturday, December 1, 2018
Full-day program will be in Gleacher Center, Room 100
8:00 am
BREAKFAST
8:30 am - 9:30 am
A Theory of Foreign Exchange Interventions
Sebastián Fanelli, Princeton University
Ludwig Straub, Harvard University
9:30 am - 9:45 am
BREAK
9:45 am - 10:45 am
Global Firms in Large Devaluations
Joaquin Blaum, Brown University
10:45 am - 11:00 am
BREAK
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Global Banks and Systemic Debt Crises
Pablo Ottonello, University of Michigan
Diego Perez, New York University
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
The Macroeconomics of the Greek Depression
Rohan Kekre, Associate Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business
1:15 pm