The Third Boston University/Boston Fed Conference on Macro-Finance Linkages
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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.
Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: financial frictions and their effects on asset prices and the real economy, asset pricing, banking, macro-prudential regulation, credit risk, dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models (DSGE) with risk premia and/or financial frictions, monetary and banking supervisory policy during financial crises (including the effects of quantitative easing policies), sovereign debt, financial stability, liquidity in financial markets, and quantitative corporate finance.
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Agenda
updated December 17, 2012
Friday, November 30, 2012
11:45 am | Registration and Lunch |
12:30 pm | “Dealing with the Trilemma” Presenters: Discussant: |
1:30 | The Financial Soundness of U.S. Firms 1926-2011 Presenter: Discussant: |
2:30 | Break |
2:45 | When Credit Bites Back: Leverage, Business Cycles, and Crises Presenter: Discussant: |
3:45 | “Intermediary Leverage, Macroeconomic Dynamics, and Macroprudential Policy” Presenter: Discussant: |
4:45 | Break |
5:00 | Panel Discussion Panelists: |
6:15 | Cocktail and Dinner (invitation only) |
Saturday, December 1, 2012
8:00 am | Breakfast |
9:00 | “Measuring the Effect of the Zero Lower Bound on Medium and Longer Term Interest Rates” Presenter: Discussant: |
10:00 | Break |
10:15 | “The Cost of Financial Frictions for Life Insurers” Presenter: Discussant: |
11:15 | “Foreign Ownership of U.S. Safe Assets: Good or Bad?” Presenter: Discussant: |
12:15 pm | Lunch |
1:00 | “Liquidity Traps and Monetary Policy: Managing a Credit Crunch” Presenter: Discussant: |
2:00 | The Pre-FOMC Announcement Drift Presenter: Discussant: |
3:00 | Adjourn |
Organizers
José L. Fillat and Ali Ozdagli
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Simon Gilchrist and Francois Gourio
Boston University
Previous Conference
November 12- 13, 2010
http://people.bu.edu/fgourio/conference_program.pdf
October 28-29, 2011
http://www.bostonfed.org/economic/conf/Macro-Finance-2011/index.htm
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