Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy

Date

Friday, March 31, 2017

Location

Federal Reserve Bank of San FranciscoJanet Yellen Conference Center, First Floor
101 Market Street
San Francisco, CA94105

Welcoming Remarks:
John C. Williams, President, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Morning Session Chair: Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Achieving Price Stability by Manipulating the Central Bank’s Payment on Reserves

Robert E. Hall, Stanford University
Ricardo A. M. R. Reis, London School of Economics

Discussants:
Andrew G. Atkeson, UCLA
Narayana R. Kocherlakota, University of Rochester

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Should Unconventional Monetary Policies Become Conventional?

Dominic Quint, Deutsche Bundesbank
Pau Rabanal, International Monetary Fund

Discussants:
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, U. C. Berkeley
Marco Del Negro, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

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Afternoon Session Chair: John G. Fernald, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Inflation at the Household Level

Sam Schulhofer-Wohl, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Greg Kaplan, University of Chicago

Discussants:
Bart Hobijn, Arizona State University
Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University

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Allocative and Remitted Wages: New Facts and Challenges for Keynesian Models

Susanto Basu, Boston College
Christopher L. House, University of Michigan

Discussants:
Robert G. King, Boston University
Marianna Kudlyak, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

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A Macroeconomic Model with Financially Constrained Producers and Intermediaries

Tim Landvoigt, University of Texas, Austin
Vadim Elenev, New York University, Stern School of Business
Stjin Van Nieuwerburgh, New York University, Stern School of Business

Discussants:
Sebastián Di Tella, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Simon G. Gilchrist, Boston University

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Dinner – Market Street Dining Room, Fourth Floor

Introduction:
John C. Williams, President, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Speaker:
Andrew G. Haldane, Chief Economist, Bank of England