Date

Thursday, September 18, 2014 – Friday, September 19, 2014

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Thursday, September 18

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch
 

Janet Yellen Conference Center

1:30 p.m. – 1:40 p.m. Welcoming Remarks
 

Session I

Chair: Òscar Jordà, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and UC Davis
Janet Yellen Conference Center

1:40 p.m. – 2:25 p.m. Dynamic Conditional Beta
 

Rob Engle*, New York University

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2:25 p.m. – 3:10 p.m. Estimating Global Bank Network Connectedness
 

Matt Demirer, MIT
Francis X. Diebold*, University of Pennsylvania
Kamil Yilmaz, Koç University

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3:10 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Coffee Break
 

 

3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. Extreme Events and the Fed
 

Jinill Kim, Korea University
Francisco Ruge-Murcia*, University of Montreal

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4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Monetary Policy Uncertainty and Economic Fluctuations
 

Cynthia Wu*, University of Chicago
Drew Creal, University of Chicago

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6:00 p.m. Conference Dinner
 

Market Street Dining Room

Friday, September 19

8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Breakfast
 

Janet Yellen Conference Room

Session II

Chair: Francisco Ruge-Murcia, University of Montreal

9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Understanding the Great Recession
 

Larry Christiano*, Northwestern University
Marty Eichenbaum, Northwestern University
Mathias Trabandt, Federal Reserve Board

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9:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Unemployment and Business Cycles
 

Larry Christiano, Northwestern University
Marty Eichenbaum*, Northwestern University
Mathias Trabandt, Federal Reserve Board

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10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Coffee Break
 

 

10:45 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Resolving the Spanning Puzzle in Macro-Finance Term Structure Models
 

Michael Bauer*, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Glenn Rudebusch, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

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11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Semiparametric Estimation of Monetary Policy Effects: String Theory Revisted
 

Joshua Angrist, MIT
Òscar Jordà*, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Guido Kuersteiner, University of Maryland

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12:15 p.m. – 1:40 p.m. Lunch
 

Market Street Dining Room

1:40 p.m. – 2:25 p.m. What the Cyclical Response of Advertising Reveals about Markups and other Macroeconomic Wedges
 

Robert Hall*, Stanford University

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2:25 p.m. – 3:10 p.m. The Real Exchange Rate, Real Interest Rates, and the Risk Premium
 

Charles Engel*, University of Wisconsin

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3:10 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Coffee Break
 

 

3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. The Two Greatest, Great Moderation vs. Great Recession
 

Gabriel Pérez-Quirós*, Bank of Spain

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From plain sailing to stormy seas?
(pdf, 799 kb)

Download paper: The failure to predict the Great Recession.
A view through the role of credit
(pdf, 499 kb)

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4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Equivalence between Out-of-Sample Forecast Comparisons and Wald
Statistics
 

Peter Hansen*, European University Institute
Allan Timmermann, UC San Diego

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5:00 p.m. Adjourn
 

 

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