Bank of France, virtual seminar (December, 2023). Discussant of “The Uncertainty Effects of Dissent in Monetary Policy Committee” by C. Blot, P. Hubert, and F. Labondance. Slides.
Swiss National Bank Research Conference, Zürich (September 2023). Discussant of “The Pass-through from Inflation Perceptions to Inflation Expectations” by S. Huber, D. Minina, and T. Schmidt. Slides
9th Conference on New Developments in Business Cycle Analysis, Oslo (September 2022). Discussant of “Inflation and GDP Dynamics in Production Networks: A Sufficient Statistics Approach” by H. Afrouzi and S. Bhattarai. Slides.
2nd Bank of Canada Workshop on Monetary Policy Research, Ottawa (September 2022). Discussant of "Inflation Measured Every Day Keeps Adverse Responses Away: Temporal Aggregation and the Monetary Policy Transmission" by M. Jacobson, C. Matthes, and T. B. Walker. Slides.
3rd Bank of Canada Macro-Finance Conference, held virtually (September 2020). Discussant of “Monetary Policy and Heterogeneity: An Analytical Framework” by F. Bilbiie. Slides.
Conference on Choosing the Right Target: Real Options for the Bank of Canada’s Mandate Renewal, held virtually (September 2020). Discussant of “High Time to Change the Bank of Canada’s Mandate” by A. Kostanyan and D. Laxton. Slides.
Bank of Canada and C.D. Howe Institute Joint Policy Workshop, Toronto (September 2018). Discussant of “The Framework: Alternative Objective(s)?” by S. Kozicki.
30th Canadian Macroeconomics Study Group, Kingston (November 2016). Discussant of “Forward Guidance and Macroeconomic Outcomes since the Financial Crisis” by J. Campbell, J. Fisher, A. Justiano, and L. Melosi. Slides.
Conference on Inflation: Drivers and Dynamics, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (September 2016). Discussant of “The Propagation of Monetary Policy Shocks in a Heterogeneous Production Economy” by E. Pasten, R. Schoenle, and M. Weber. Slides.
Bank of Canada Annual Conference, Ottawa (November 2015). Discussant of “The Role of Card Acceptance in the Transaction Demand for Money” by K. Huynh. P. Schmidt-Dengler, and H. Stix. Slides.
NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics, Zurich (June 2015). Discussant of “Shocking Language: Understanding the Macroeconomic Effects of Central Bank Communication” by S. Hansen and M. McMahon. Slides.
49th Annual Meetings of the Canadian Economics Association, Toronto (June 2015). Discussant of “Why are Real Interest Rates so Low? Secular Stagnation and the Relative Price of Investment Goods” by G. Thwaites. Slides.
Bank of Canada Annual Conference, Ottawa (November 2014). Discussant of “Signaling Effects of Monetary Policy” by L. Melosi. Slides.
27th Canadian Macroeconomics Study Group, Toronto (November 2013). Discussant of "Debt, Inflation and Central Bank Independence" by F. Martin. Slides.
Conference on Advances in Fixed Income Modeling, Bank of Canada, Ottawa (May 2013). Discussant of “Monetary Policy Expectations at the Zero Lower Bound” by M. Bauer and G. Rudebusch.
2013 Meeting of the American Economic Association, San Diego (January 2013). Discussant of "Empirical Evidence on Inflation Expectations in the New Keynesian Phillips Curve" by S. Mavroeidis, M. Plagborg-Moller, and J. Stock. Slides.
25th Canadian Macroeconomics Study Group, Vancouver (November 2011). Discussant of "Firm Level Productivity, Risk and Return" by A. Imrohoroglu and S. Tuzel. Slides.
3rd CIREQ Time Series Conference, Montréal (May 2009). Discussant of “Estimation of Moment-Based Models with Latent Variables” by R. Giacomini and G. Ragusa. Slides.
22nd Canadian Macroeconomics Study Group, Toronto (November 2008). Discussant of “Interest Rates and the Exchange Rate: A Non-Monotonic Tale” by V. Hnatkovska, A. Lahiri and C. Vegh. Slides.
Conference on the International Experience with the Conduct of Monetary Policy under Inflation Targeting, Bank of Canada, Ottawa (July 2008). Discussant of “Making Monetary Policy by Committee” by A. Blinder. Slides.
Conference on Business Cycles, International Transmission and Macroeconomic Policies, Montréal (October 2007). Discussant of “A Measure of Pure Inflation” by R. Reis and M. Watson. Slides.
3rd DYNARE Conference, Paris (September 2007). Discussant of "Monetary Policy in the Presence of a Dominant Oil Supplier" by A. Nakov and A. Pescatori. Slides.
Research Workshop on Monetary Policy Committees, Bank of Norway, Oslo (September 2007). Discussant of "Designing Decision‑Making Procedures in MPCs: The Advantage of Premise‑Based Decisions" by C. Claussen and Ø. Røisland. Slides.
40th Annual Meetings of the Canadian Economics Association, Montréal (May 2006). Discussant of "Do Asymmetric Central Bank Preferences Help Explain Observed Inflation Outcomes?" by M. Doyle and B. Falk. Slides.
40th Annual Meetings of the Canadian Economics Association, Montréal (May 2006). Discussant of "Survey‑Based Estimates of the Term Structure of Expected U.S. Inflation" by S. Kozicki and P. A. Tinsley. Slides.
Conference on Policy Relevant Modeling for Central Banks, Swiss National Bank, Zürich (September 2005). Discussant of "DSGE Models in a Data‑Rich Environment" by J. Boivin and M. P. Giannoni. Slides.
18th Canadian Macroeconomics Study Group, Montréal (November 2004). Discussant of "Near‑Rational Exuberance" by J. Bullard, G. W. Evans and S. Honkapohja.
35th Annual Meetings of the Canadian Economics Association, Montréal (June 2001). Discussant of "Delayed Income Taxation and Fluctuations" by C. Zimmermann.
1998 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Montréal (June 1998). Discussant of “The Robustness of Simple Monetary Policy Rules to Model Uncertainty” by J. Williams, A. Levin and V. Wieland.
11th Canadian Macroeconomics Study Group, Toronto (November 1997). Discussant of “International Interest Rate Differentials: The Interaction with Fiscal and Monetary Policies, and the Business Cycle” by P. Fenton and A. Paquet.