2012 Events

Conferences

• Conference on International Linkages in a Globalized World and Implications for Monetary Policy
  June 21–22, 2012
  Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
• Conference on Financial Frictions and Monetary Policy in an Open Economy
  March 16–17, 2012
  Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

2011 Conferences & Lectures

• Globalization and Monetary Policy: From Virtue to Vice?
  A Lecture by Jürgen Stark, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank
  November 29, 2011
  Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
• DSGE Models in Macroeconomics—Estimation, Evaluation, and New Developments
  November 4–6, 2011
  Dallas

2011 Seminars

• December 2: André Kurmann, Board of Governors
• October 21: Jianfeng Yu, University of Minnesota
• October 7: Nan Li, IMF
• September 30: Martin Boileau, University of Colorado at Boulder
• Microeconomic Aspects of the Globalization of Inflation
  August 19–20, 2011
  Zurich, Switzerland
• Global Asset Pricing
  Karen Lewis, Wharton
  August 11
• Best Prices
  Anil Kashyap, University of Chicago
  June 4
• The Intraday Effects of Central Bank Intervention on Exchange Rate Spreads
  Rasmus Fatum, University of Alberta
  May 27
• Purchasing Power Parity and the Taylor Rule
  Masao Ogaki, Keio University, Japan
  May 16
• The Costs of Financial Crises: Resource Misallocation, Productivity and Welfare in the 2001 Argentine Crisis
  Mark Wright, UCLA
  May 13
• The Fiscal Multiplier Morass: A Bayesian Perspective
  Nora Traum, North Carolina State University
  April 15
• News Shocks and the Slope of the Term Structure of Interest Rates
  Chris Otork, University of Virginia
  March 25
• Technology and Endowments as Determinants of Comparative Advantage: Evidence from Mexico
  Daniel Chiquiar, Banco de México
  March 21
• Asymmetric Shocks in a Currency Union with Monetary and Fiscal Handcuffs
  Jesper Linde, Board of Governors
  March 17
• Intergenerational Mobility and the Political Economy of Immigration
  Armando Lopez-Velasco, Bucknell
  March 9
• Trade in Intermediate Inputs and Business Cycle Comovement
  Robert Johnson, Dartmouth
  February 25
• Regulating Wall Street: The Dodd-Frank Act and the New Architecture of Global Finance
  Viral Acharya, NYU
  February 18
• Entrepreneurship with Endogenous Volatility Under Financial Frictions
  Hernan Moscoso Boedo, University of Virginia
  January 14
  
  

2010 Conferences

• Microeconomic Sources of Real Exchange Rate Behavior
  Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
  September 24—25, 2010
• EU Economic Integration: Lessons of the Past, and What Does the Future Hold?
  Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
  March 18, 2010
• The Euro and the Dollar in the Crisis and Beyond
  Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
  March 17, 2010
  Online videos of presentations

2010 Seminars

• Hedging Pressures, Speculation, and Commodity Risk Premia American University
  Michel Robe, American University
  December 14
• Emerging Market Business Cycles: The Role of Labor Market Frictions
  Bora Durdu, Board of Governors
  December 10
• Banks, Market Organization and Macroeconomic Performance: An Agent-Based Computational Analysis
  Peter Howitt, Brown University
  December 3
  
• Can International Macroeconomic Models Explain Low-Frequency Movements of Real Exchange Rates?
  Pau Rabanal, IMF
  November 19
• Kevin Huang, Vanderbilt University
  November 12
• Fernanda Nechio, FRB San Francisco
  November 8
• Taxation of Human Capital and Wage Inequality: A Cross-Country Analysis
  Faith Guvenen, University of Minnesota
  November 5
• Politics and the Fed
  Alan Meltzer, Carnegie Mellon University
  October 28
• Why Didn't Canada Have a Banking Crisis in 2008 (or in 1930, or in 1907, or in 1893)?
  Michael Bordo, Rutgers University
  October 27
  
• International Risk-Sharing and Commodity Prices
  Martin Berka, Massy University
  October 20

• Current Trends in the Analysis of Canadian Productivity Growth
  Simon van Norden, HEC Montreal
  September 2, 2010
• Sectoral Price Facts in a Sticky-Price Model
  Carlos Carvalho, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  August 13, 2010
• The High Cross-Country Correlations of Prices and Interest Rates
  Roman Sustek, University of Iowa
  June 25, 2010
• The Demand for Youth: Implications for the Hours Volatility
  Henry Siu, University of British Columbia
  June 11, 2010
• The Collapse of International Trade During the 2008—2009 Crisis: In Search of the Smoking Gun
  Andrei Levchenko, University of Michigan
  May 21, 2010
• International and Intranational Real Exchange Rates: Theory and Evidence
  Viktoria Hnatkovska, University of British Columbia
  May 14, 2010
• Firm Risk and Leverage-Based Business Cycles
  Sanjay Chugh, University of Maryland
  May 5, 2010
  

2009 Conferences

• What Do Businesses Need to Succeed in Today's Competitive Global Economy?
  October 16, 2009
  SMU Cox School of Business
• Federal Reserve System Committee on International Economic Analysis
  October 1—2, 2009
  San Antonio Branch, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

2009 Seminars

• On the Dynamics of Leverage, Liquidity, and Risk
  Eric van Wincoop, University of Virginia
  Dec. 18, 2009
• Optimal Fiscal Policy Over the Business Cycle Revisted
  Martin Gervais, University of Southampton, visiting UT Austin
  Dec. 4, 2009
• Who Owns Children and Does It Matter?
  Alice Schoonbroodt. University of Southampton, visiting UT Austin
  Dec. 3, 2009
• Capital Flows, International Financial Markets and Financial Crises
  November 13—14, 2009
  Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
• Export Prices and Heterogeneous Firm Models
  Kalina Manova, Stanford University
  October 23, 2009
• Remittances, Household Expenditure and Investment in Guatemala
  Alfredo Cuecuecha, CIDE
  Nov. 2, 2009
  
• Financial Structure, Informality and Development
  Pablo D'Erasmo, University of Maryland
  Sept. 25, 2009
• Pitfalls in Estimating Asymmetric Effects of Energy Price Shocks
  Rob Vigfusson, FR Board
  Sept, 30, 2009
• PPP Strikes Out: The Effect of Common Factor Shocks on the Real Exchange Rate
  Donggyu Sul, University of Texas, Dallas
  Sept. 11, 2009
• Income Differences and Prices of Tradables
  Ina Simonovska, University of California, Davis
  August 8, 2009
• What Do International Asset Returns Imply about Consumption Risk-Sharing
  Karen Lewis, Wharton
  August 7, 2009
• European Real Exchange Rates: Revisited
  Michael Devereux, University of British Columbia
  July 30, 2009
• International Capital Flows and Past Prospective Returns
  Francis Warnock, University of Virginia
  July 26, 2009
• Adriana Kugler, University of Houston
  May 22, 2009
• Uncertainty, Credit Spreads, and Investment Dynamics
  Simon Gilchrist, Boston University
  May 8, 2009
• The Role of the Structural Transformation in Aggregate Productivity
  Margarida Duarte, University of Toronto
  March 20, 2009
  
• Banking Globalization and Monetary Transmission
  Linda Goldberg, FRB New York
  April 17, 2009
• The Marginal Product of Capital, Capital Flows and Convergence
  Kanda Naknoi, Purdue University
  March 6, 2009
• Time-Varying Risk of Disaster, Time-Varying Risk Premia, and Macroeconomic Dynamics
  François Gourio, Boston University (visiting Wharton)
  February 13, 2009
• When Is Quality of Financial System a Source of Comparative Advantage
  Jiandong Ju, University of Oklahoma
  February 6, 2009
• EDI Spillovers and the Role of Local Financial Markets: Evidence from Mexico
  Carolina Villegas-Sanchez, University of Houston
  January 30, 2009
• International Portfolios, Capital Accumulation and Foreign Assets Dynamic
  Robert Kollmann, Université Libre de Bruxelles
  January 8, 2009

2008 Conferences

• Murray S. Johnson Memorial Conference
  Cosponsored with the University of Texas at Austin
  April 4—5, 2008
  Austin, Texas

2008 Seminars

• Trade Liberalization, Growth, and Productivity
  Tim Kehoe from the University of Minnesota
  November 4, 2008
• A Solution to the Default Risk-Business Cycle Disconnect
  Enrique Mendoza, University of Maryland
  September 25, 2008
  
• Imports R Us: Retail Chains as Platforms for Developing-Country Imports
  Van Pham, Baylor University
  April 28, 2008
• Exchange Rates and Asset Prices in an Open Economy with Rare Disasters
  Kai Guo, Harvard
  March 25, 2008
• Accounting for Persistence and Volatilty of Good-Level Exchange Rates: The Role of Sticky Information
  Mario Crucini, Vanderbilt University
  March 17, 2008
• Market Penetration Costs and Trade Dynamics
  Costas Arkolakis, Yale University
  March 7, 2008
• Neoclassical Miracles
  Rodi Manuelli, University of Wisconsin—Madison
  February 26, 2008
• Common Risk Factors in Currency Markets
  Adrien Verdelhan, Boston University
  February 1, 2008
• A Canonical Model of the FX Premium
  Jens Søndergaard, Bank of England
  January 22, 2008
• A Factor-Proportions Theory of Endogenous Firm Heterogeneity
  Taiji Furusawa, Hitotsubashi University
  January 8, 2008