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Frontiers of Macroeconomics with Applications in China

December 8–9, 2018

Shanghai, China

Saturday, December 8, 2018

Papers from the Journal of Economic Perspectives, “The State of Macroeconomics”

The State of New Keynesian Economics: A Partial Assessment

Jordi Galí (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, CREI)

What Happened: Financial Factors in the Great Recession.

Mark Gertler (NYU) and Simon Gilchrist (Boston University)

On DSGE Models

Lawrence J. Christiano (Northwestern) and Martin S. Eichenbaum (Northwestern)

with Mathias Trabandt (Freie Universitat Berlin).

Presentation

David Altig, Executive Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Identification in Macroeconomics

Emi Nakamura (Columbia University) and Jón Steinsson (Columbia University)

Incorporating Household Heterogeneity in Business Cycle Models

Greg Kaplan (University of Chicago) and Gianluca Violante (Princeton)

Finance Business Cycles: The Credit Driven Household Demand Channel

Atif Mian (Princeton) and Amir Sufi (University of Chicago, Booth)

Sunday, December 9, 2018

Tournament and Economic Growth

Wei Xiong (Princeton)

A Macroeconomic Model with Financial Panics

Mark Gertler (NYU)

With Nobu Kiyotaki (Princeton) and Andrea Prestipino (Board of Governors, Federal Reserve).

Discussant: Christiano (Northwestern)

Shadow Banking and the Four Pillars of Traditional Financial Intermediation

Emmanuel Farhi (Harvard)

With Jean Tirole (Toulouse).

Presentation

Jun Liu (UCSD)

Title not listed in the archived program.

Institutional Foundations of China's Growth

Chang-Tai Hsieh (University of Chicago, Booth)

With Zheng Song (CUHK) and Bai Chong-en (Tsinghua).

The Nexus of Monetary Policy and Shadow Banking in China

Tao Zha (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)

With Kaiji Chen (Emory University) and Jue Ren (Texas Christian University).

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