ERC/CEPR/LBS Conference on Granularity and Applications

London Business School

18-19 May 2020

Organizer: Hélène Rey (London Business School, CEPR and NBER)

Keynote speaker: Ralph Koijen (University of Chicago Booth School of Business, CEPR and NBER)

AGENDA

3:00-3:40 Hans Dewachter, Joris Tielens (KU Leuven), Jan Van Hove

The Production Network Sources of Bank Influence Draft

Discussant: Ragnar Juelsrud (Norges Bank)

3:40-4:20 Brian Gutierrez, Victoria Ivashina (Harvard Business School), Juliana Salomao

Why the Dollar is Cheaper? Evidence from Peru Draft

Discussant: Veronica Rappoport (London School of Economics)

4:20-4:40 Break

4:40-5:20 Daron Acemoglu and Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi (Kellogg School of Management)

Firms, Failures, and Fluctuations Draft

Discussant: David Baqaee (UCLA)

5:20-6:00 Cecile Gaubert and Oleg Itskhoki (Princeton)

Granular Comparative Advantage Draft

Discussant: Francis Kramarz (ENSAE CREST)

3:00-3:40 Julian di Giovanni, Andrei Levchenko, and Isabelle Mejean (CREST-Ecole Polytechnique)

Foreign Shocks as Granular Fluctuations Draft

Discussant: Basile Grassi (Bocconi University)

3:40-4:20 Andrew Foerster, Andreas Hornstein, Pierre-Daniel Sarte, Mark Watson (Princeton)

Aggregate Implications of Changing Sectoral Trends Draft

Discussant: Ivan Petrella (Warwick Business School)

4:20-4:40 Break

4:40-5:20 Sigurd Galaasen, Rustam Jamilov (London Business School), Ragnar Juelsrud, Hélène Rey

Granular Credit Risk Draft

Discussant: José-Luis Peydró (Imperial College London)

5:20-6:20 Xavier Gabaix and Ralph S.J. Koijen (Booth School of Business)

In Search of the Origins of Financial Fluctuations

All presenters, discussants, and attendees will receive a private Zoom link and password

Each presentation is 40 min total = 20 min talk + 10 min discussion + 10 min questions

Keynote speech is 60 min total = 45 min talk + 15 min questions

We start at 3pm London time (10am New York, 9am Chicago, 7am Los Angeles)

Presenting authors are in bold