The Second Boston University/Boston Fed Conference on Macro-Finance Linkages
October 28-29, 2011
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston MA
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Department of Economics at Boston University are organizing a conference on recent developments in macroeconomics and finance. The goal of the conference is to improve our understanding of the linkages between the financial markets and the real economy in light of the recent recession.
For more information please contact MacroFinance@bos.frb.org.
Full program 
(updated 9/21/11)
- Agenda
- Organizers
- Previous Conference
Agenda
Friday, October 28, 2011
12:00 – 1:00pm |
Welcome and lunch |
1:00 – 2:00 |
“Uncertainty Shocks in a Model of Effective Demand”
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2:00 – 3:00 |
“Ambiguous Business Cycles”
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3:00 – 3:30 |
Coffee Break |
3:30 – 4:30 |
“Financial Markets and Unemployment”
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4:30– 5:30 |
“Financing Constraints and Unemployment: Evidence from the Great Recession"
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Saturday, October 29, 2011
8:00 – 8:30am |
Welcome and breakfast |
8:30 – 9:30 |
“Collateral Crises”
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9:30 – 10:30 |
“Do Low Interest Rates Sow the Seeds of Financial Crises?”
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10:30 – 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
11:00 – 12:00pm |
“A Quantitative Model of Banking Industry Dynamics”
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12:00 – 1:00 |
“Too-Systemic-To-Fail: What Option Markets Imply About Sector-wide Government Guarantees”
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1:00pm |
Adjourn |
Organizers
José L. Fillat and Ali Ozdagli
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Simon Gilchrist and Francois Gourio
Boston University
Previous Conference
The program of last year’s conference, held on November 12 and 13, 2010, can be found here:
http://people.bu.edu/fgourio/conference_program.pdf
