Macro Financial Society's 5th Macro Finance Workshop Linkages

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May 28-29, 2015

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

600 Atlantic Avenue

Boston MA

The society holds semiannual workshops that aim to provide an informal forum in which young (as well as experienced) researchers in Macro Finance can present and receive constructive feedback on their preliminary work.

Preliminary Agenda

Thursday, May 28, 2015

6:00 p.m.

Dinner (Details to be Announced)

Friday, May 29, 2015

8:00 a.m.	Registration & Continental Breakfast (New England Room)
8:45	Welcoming remarks: TBA
8:55	Credit-Induced Boom and Bust Marco Di Maggio (Columbia Business School) Amir Kermani (University of California, Berkeley) Discussant: TBA
9:55	Break
10:15	Intermediaries as Information Aggregators Nina Boyarchenko (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) David Lucca (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) Laura Veldkamp (New York University Stern) Discussant: TBA
11:15	Keynote Address: Jeremy Stein, Moise Y. Safra Professor of Economics, (Harvard University)
12:15 p.m.	Lunch (The New England Room)
1:30	Inflation Expectations and Consumption Expenditure Francesco D'Acunto (University of California, Berkeley) Daniel Hoang ( Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Michael Weber (University of Chicago- Finance) Discussant: TBA
2:30	Break
2:50	Assessing Asset Pricing Models Using Revealed Preferences Jonathan Berk (Stanford University) Jules Van Binsbergen (University of Pennsylvania) Discussant: TBA
3:50	Currency Risk Factors in Recursive Multi-Country Economy Ricardo Colacito (University of North Carolina ) Max Croce (University of North Carolina) Federico Gavazzoni (INSEAD) Robert Ready (University of Rochester) Discussant: TBA
4:50	Adjourn