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International Conference on Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy

June 2012

Moscow, Russia

Co-sponsored with the Higher School of Economics and the New Economic School.

Friday, June 8, 2012

10:00–11:30

Session I

Growth Rate and Uncertainty Shocks: Cross Country Evidence

Emi Nakamura (Columbia University), Jon Steinsson (Columbia University), and Dmitriy Sergeyev (Columbia University)

Macroprudential Regulation Versus Mopping up after the Crash

Anton Korinek (University of Maryland) and Olivier Jeanne (Johns Hopkins University)

12:00–13:30

Session II

A Theory of Asset Pricing with Heterogenous Information

Aleh Tsyvinski (Yale University and New Economic School)

With Elias Albagli and Christian Hellwig.

Speculation and Risk Sharing with New Financial Assets

Alp Simsek (Harvard University)

14:30–16:00

Session III

Sentiments

Jennifer La’O (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

With Marios Angeletos.

Industrialization in Russia through the Lense of the Neoclassical Growth Theory

Sergei Guriev (New Economic School)

With Anton Cheremukhin, Mikhail Golosov, and Aleh Tsyvinski.

16:30–17:30

Keynote address

Risk Shocks

Larry Christiano (Northwestern University)

With Roberto Motto and Massimo Rostagno (European Central Bank).

Saturday, June 9, 2012

10:15–11:00

Session IV

Deficits, Public Debt Dynamics, and Tax and Spending Multipliers

Gauti Eggertsson (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

11:30–12:30

Keynote address

Banks, Liquidity and Bank Runs in an Infinite Horizon Economy

Mark Gertler (New York University)

With Nobuhiro Kiyotaki.

13:30–15:00

Session V

Exchange Rate Pass-through, Monetary Policy, and Variability of Exchange Rates

Konstantin Styrin (New Economic School) and Oleg Zamulin (Higher School of Economics)

Globalization, Exchange Rate Regimes and Financial Contagion

Maxim Nikitin (Higher School of Economics), Alexandra Solovyeva (Central Bank of Russia), and Branko Urosevic (University of Belgrade)

15:30–17:00

Roundtable: How the Great Recession Contributed to Macroeconomics:

Larry Christiano (Northwestern University), Mark Gertler (New York University), Sergei Guriev (New Economic School), Aleh Tsyvinski (Yale University and New Economic School).

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