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Agenda

Morning Session Chair: John Fernald, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

8:10 A.M. Continental Breakfast
8:50 A.M. Welcoming Remarks:
  John Williams, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
9:00 A.M. Jinzu Chen, International Monetary Fund
  Prakash Kannan, International Monetary Fund
  Prakash Loungani, International Monetary Fund
  Bharat Trehan, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
  New Evidence on Cyclical and Structural Sources of Unemployment (PDF - 462KB)
  Discussants: Steven Davis, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
    Valerie Ramey, University of California, San Diego
10:20 A.M. Break
10:40 A.M. Robert Hall, Stanford University
  Quantifying the Forces Leading to the Collapse of GDP after the Financial Crisis (PDF - 826KB)
  Discussants: Antonella Trigari, Università Bocconi
    Roger Farmer, University of California, Los Angeles
12:00 P.M. Lunch – Market Street Dining Room, Fourth Floor
 
Afternoon Session Chair: Eric Swanson, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
1:15 P.M. Charles Fleischman, Federal Reserve Board
  John Roberts, Federal Reserve Board
  From Many Series, One Cycle: Improved Estimates of the Business Cycle
from a Multivariate Unobserved Components Model (PDF - 302KB)
  Discussants: Carlos Carvalho, Pontificia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro
    Ricardo Reis, Columbia University
2:35 P.M. Break
2:50 P.M. Christopher Carroll, Johns Hopkins University
  Jiri Slacalek, European Central Bank
  Martin Sommer, International Monetary Fund
  Dissecting Saving Dynamics: Measuring Credit, Wealth, and Precautionary
Effects (PDF - 1.18MB)
  Discussants: Karen Dynan, Brookings Institution
    Gauti Eggertsson, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
4:10 P.M. Break
4:25 P.M. Andreas Fuster, Harvard University
  Benjamin Hebert, Harvard University
  David Laibson, Harvard University
  Natural Expectations, Macroeconomic Dynamics, and Asset Pricing (PDR - 663KB)
  Discussants: Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California, Berkeley
    Stefan Nagel, Stanford Graduate School of Business
5:45 P.M. Reception – West Market Street Lounge, Fourth Floor
6:30 P.M. Dinner – Market Street Dining Room, Fourth Floor
  Introduction: John Williams, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
  Speaker: Peter Diamond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Unemployment and Debt
 

 

Visitor Information

Registration

Conference Hotel

Hyatt Regency San Francisco
5 Embarcadero Center
San Francisco, California, USA 94111

Conference Venue

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
101 Market Street (between Main and Spear Streets)
San Francisco, CA 94105-1579
(415) 974-2000

Neighborhood information

Please use the Bank's main entrance on Market Street.

Public parking is available in the garage at 123 Mission Street (entrance on Main Street between Mission and Howard Streets, around $26) and in surface lots at Main and Howard Streets (around $15). There are also several parking garages on Spear Street between Market and Howard Streets (around $20 and up).

The Bank is a nonsmoking building.

Airport Transportation

From San Francisco Airport
Travel time is approximately 25 minutes from SFO to the downtown area. Taxi fare from the airport to the downtown area is approximately $45.

The door-to-door Super Shuttle ($16) departs every 10 to 15 minutes, 24 hours a day, from the upper level median strip or courtesy island of the North, Central, and South terminals at SFO.

BART trains leave SFO every 15 minutes and take approximately 35 minutes to reach the downtown area. From the International Terminal, enter SFO-International BART station, which is located on level 3 of the International Terminal. From the Domestic Terminal, follow the signs across the overpass and take the SFO-AirTrain to SFO-International BART station. Once on BART, exit at Embarcadero Station, and walk up to Harbor Court Hotel on Stewart Street. One-way BART fare from SFO to the Embarcadero Station is $8.10.

From Oakland Airport
From OAK, either take the AirBART shuttle (fare is $2) to the Colliseum BART station and take any San Francisco bound train to the Embarcadero Station (fare is $3.55 + $3 AirBART fare), or take any shuttle from the airport to the hotel. Fare is approximately $25-$30.