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
11:30:00–12:15:00

Welcome Lunch: Gleacher Center, Room 420

12:30:00

Program Begins: Gleacher Center, Room 408

12:30:00–13:30:00

Monetary Policy Spillovers through Invoicing Currencies

13:30:00–13:40:00

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13:40:00–14:40:00

Currency Choice in Contracts

14:40:00–14:50:00

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14:50:00–15:50:00

An Equilibrium Model of the International Price System

15:50:00–16:00:00

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16:00:00–17:00:00

Firm-Level Structural Change: Supply and Demand Effects of Financial Liberalization

17:00:00

Conference adjourns for the day

19:00:00

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

08:00:00

BREAKFAST

08:30:00–09:30:00

A Theory of Foreign Exchange Interventions

09:30:00–09:45:00

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09:45:00–10:45:00

Global Firms in Large Devaluations

10:45:00–11:00:00

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11:00:00–12:00:00

Global Banks and Systemic Debt Crises

12:00:00–13:15:00

The Macroeconomics of the Greek Depression

13:15:00

CONFERENCE CONCLUDES