Sixth Santiago Macro Workshop: Program
Organizers: Alvaro Aguirre, Sofía Bauducco, Ezequiel Garcia-Lembergman and Caio Machado
Times are in GMT-3 (Stgo, Chile)
All sessions will be conducted in English
Monday, December 12
Location: Auditorium, Central Bank of Chile
Morande 115, 2nd floor
8:45 - 9:00 Arrival and coffee
9:00 - 9:05 Opening remarks (Sofia Bauducco, Head of Economic Studies, Central Bank of Chile)
9:05 - 10:00 “Inequality-driven Policy Uncertainty: Political Economy in Heterogeneous Agents’ Models”
Alvaro Aguirre (Central Bank of Chile)
10:00 - 11:00 “The Changing Polarization of Party Ideologies: The Role of Sorting”
Satyajit Chatterjee (Fed Philadelphia) and Burcu Eyigungor (Fed Philadelphia)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30 “Monetary Policy Surprises and Expectations: The Cases of Chile and Brazil”
Mariana García-Schmidt (Central Bank of Chile)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 “Survey-Based Monetary Policy Uncertainty and its Asymmetric Effects”
Tatiana Dahlhaus (Bank of Canada) and Tatevik Sekhposyan (Texas A&M University)
15:00 - 16:00 “A Model of Expenditure Shocks”
Jorge Miranda-Pinto (Central Bank of Chile), Daniel Murphy (U. of Virginia), Kieran James Walsh (U.
of California, Santa Barbara), and Eric R. Young (U. of Virginia, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30 “Who Are the Hand-to-Mouth?”
Mark Aguiar (Princenton University), Mark Bils (University of Rochester), Corina Boar (New York University)
19:00 Dinner (by invitation)
Location: Le Bistrot de Gaeatan (Sta. Magdalena 80, Local 7, Providencia)
Tuesday, December 13
Location: Campus San Joaquín, PUC Chile, Vicuña Mackenna 4860
Facultad de Economía y Administración
Room AE203
8:20 - 8:30 Arrival and coffee
8:30 - 9:30 “Lumpy Forecasters”
Isaac Baley (UPF) and Javier Turen (PUC Chile)
9:30 - 10:30 “Nominal rigidities in U.S. business cycles”
Camilo Morales-Jimenez (Fed Board) and Luminita Stevens (U. of Maryland)
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 - 11:50 “International Trade Finance and Learning Dynamics”
David Kohn (PUC Chile), Emiliano Luttini (Central Bank of Chile), Michal Szkup (U. of British Columbia), Shengxing Zhang (LSE)
11:50 - 12:50 “Global and Local Supply Chain Disruptions: 2020–2022”
George Alessandria (U. of Rochester), Shafaat Yar Khan (World Bank), Armen Khederlarian (U. of Rochester),
Carter Mix (Fed Board), Kim J. Ruhl (U. of Wisconsin–Madison)
12:50 - 13:50 Lunch
13:50 - 14:50 “Multi-establishment Firms, Pricing and the Propagation of Local Shocks: Evidence from US Retail”
Ezequiel Garcia-Lembergman (PUC Chile)
14:50 - 15:50 “Mechanics of Spatial Growth”
Sheng Cai (Yale University), Lorenzo Caliendo (Yale University), Fernando Parro (Pennsylvania State University),
Wei Xiang (Yale University)
16:00 - 18:00 Semifinals FIFA World Cup (we move to room PC1)
The Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile received funds Vicerrectoría de Investigación and FONDECYT to host this workshop.