Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy

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

Morning Session Chair:
Fernanda Nechio, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Inference in SVAR When Identifying Assumptions Are Not Fully Believed: Re-evaluating the Role of Monetary Policy and Economic Fluctuations
Christiane Baumeister, University of Notre-Dame
James Hamilton, University of California San Diego

Discussants: Juan Rubio-Ramírez, Emory University
Kenneth West, University of Wisconsin 

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Macroeconomic Fluctuations with HANK and SAM: An Analytical Approach
Morten Ravn, University College London
Vincent Sterk, University College London

Discussants: Sylvain Leduc, Bank of Canada
Paolo Pesenti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

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

The L-Shaped Phillips Curve: Theoretical Justification and Empirical Implications
Narayana Kocherlakota, University of Rochester

Discussants: Marco Basseto, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Martin Eichenbaum, Northwestern University

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Permanent Income Inequality
Brant Abbott, Queen’s University
Giovanni Gallipoli, University of British Columbia

Discussants: Mark Bils, University of Rochester
Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University

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Money Markets, Collateral and Monetary Policy
Fiorella de Fiore, European Central Bank
Marie Hoerova, European Central Bank
Harald Uhlig, University of Chicago

Discussants: Juliane Begenau, Stanford University
Nicolas Caramp, University of California Davis

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Dinner
Market Street Dining Room, Fourth Floor

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

Speaker:
Alan B. Krueger, Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University