Program for the 2016 Conference (April 29, 2016)
Format: 20 mins for presenter, 15 mins for discussant, 10-15 minutes for response and general discussion
8:45 am breakfast, opening remarks at 9:15am (Johanna Francis, Fordham)
9.30 am First session: 2 papers, 2 discussants
Chair: Bart Moore (Fordham University)
9:30-10:15am Julian Kozlowski (NYU), Laura Veldkamp (NYU-Stern) and Venky Venkateswaran (NYU-Stern) “The Tail that Wags the Economy: Belief-Driven Business Cycles and Persistent Stagnation”
Discussant: Ryan Chahrour (Boston College)
10:30-11:15am Florian Semani (NYU) “Speculation, Asset Bubbles and Risk Premiums in a Heterogeneous Beliefs General Equilibrium Production Economy”
Discussant: Andrey Ermolov (Fordham Business School)
11:15-11:30am coffee
11.30am Second session: 1 paper, 1 discussant
11:30am-12:15pm Keshav Dogra (FRB New York)“Optimal debt restructuring and lending policy in a monetary union”
Discussant: Todd Keister (Rutgers University)
12:15-1.30pm break for lunch
1:30-3pm Third session: 2 papers, 2 discussants
Chair: Patricia Gomez-Gonzalez (Fordham University)
1:30-2:15pm Callum Jones (NYU), Mariano Kulish (UNSW), and Daniel M. Rees (Reserve Bank of Australia) “International Spillovers of Unconventional Monetary Policy”
Discussant: Neil Mehrotra (Brown University)
2:30-3:15pm Yili Chen (Federal Reserve, St Louis), Hanno Lustig (Stanford, GSB), and Kanda Naknoi (U Connecticut) “Why Are Exchange Rates So Smooth? A Segmented Asset Markets Explanation”
Discussant: Sushant Acharya (FRB New York)
3:15-3:45pm Coffee
Keynote
Chair: Arunima Sinha (Fordham University)
3:45-4:30pm Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe (Columbia University)
(Followed by a 10-15 minute discussion)
4:45pm Thanks and Adjourn for reception