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Conference on Monetary Economics

15 Jun. 2012
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The 7th Banco de Portugal Conference on Monetary Economics will be held in Porto, June 15-16, 2012. The Conference aims at bringing together economists to discuss research on monetary theory and policy.

The Organizer Committee for the Conference is composed by Isabel Correia, Sérgio Rebelo and Pedro Teles.

The Conference venue is the Pousada Palácio do Freixo.

The Conference will last for two days, Friday, June 15 and Saturday, June 16.
Programme
Thursday, June 14
16.00 Social Programme
20.00 - 21.30 Dinner


Friday, June 15
09.30 – 10.50 A Macroeconomic Framework for Quantifying Systemic Risk
Zhiguo He (University of Chicago)
Arvind Krishnamurthy (Northwestern University)

Discussants:
John V. Leahy (New York University)
Adriano Rampini (Duke University)
10.50 – 11.10 Coffee
11.10 – 12.30 Financial Risk Capacity
Saki Bigio (New York University)

Discussants:
Lawrence Christiano (Northwestern University)
Robert E. Hall (Stanford University)
13.00 – 15.00 Lunch
15.00 – 16.20 Collateral Crises
Gary B. Gorton (Yale University)
Guillermo L. Ordoñez (Yale University)

Discussants:
Mário R. Páscoa (University of Surrey and Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Laura L. Veldkamp (New York University)
16.20 – 16.40 Coffee
16.40 – 18.00 The Trend is the Cycle: Job Polarization and Jobless Recoveries
Nir Jaimovich (Duke University)
Henry E. Siu (University of British Columbia)

Discussants:
Mark A. Aguiar (Princeton University)
Marcelo Veracierto (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
20.00 – 21.30 Dinner


Saturday, June 16
09.30 – 10.50 Understanding the Equity-Premium and Correlation Puzzles
Rui Albuquerque (Boston University)
Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University)
Sérgio Rebelo (Northwestern University)

Discussants:
Anisha Ghosh (Carnegie Mellon University)
Lars Peter Hansen (University of Chicago)
10.50 – 11.10 Coffee
11.10 – 12.30 Inattentive Valuation and Reference-Dependent Choice
Michael Woodford (Columbia University)

Discussants:
Jennifer La’O (University of Chicago)
Alp Simsek (Harvard University)
13.00 – 15.00 Lunch
15.00 – 16.20 Dealing with the Trilemma: Optimal Capital Controls with Fixed Exchange Rates
Emmanuel Farhi (Harvard University)
Iván Werning (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Discussants:
Ricardo Reis (Columbia University)
16.20 – 16.40 Coffee
16.40 – 18.00 Fiscal Devaluations
Emmanuel Farhi (Harvard University)
Gita Gopinath (Harvard University)
Oleg Itskhoki (Princeton University)

Discussants:
Jordi Galí (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Juan Pablo Nicolini (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
20.00 – 21.30 Dinner
Participants

Bernardino Adão (Banco de Portugal)

Álvaro Aguiar (Universidade do Porto)

Mark A. Aguiar (Princeton University)

Rui Albuquerque (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)

António Antunes (Banco de Portugal)

João Vale Azevedo (Banco de Portugal)

Saki Bigio (New York University)

Teresa Lloyd Braga (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)

Emanuela Cardia (Université de Montréal)

Lawrence Christiano (Northwestern University)

Isabel Correia (Banco de Portugal)

Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University)

Larry G. Epstein (Boston University)

Valerio Ercolani (Banco de Portugal)

Emmanuel Farhi (Harvard University)

Ricardo Mourinho Félix (Banco de Portugal)

Jordi Galí (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Anisha Ghosh (Carnegie Mellon University)

Robert E. Hall (Stanford University)

Lars Peter Hansen (University of Chicago)

Nikolay Iskrev (Banco de Portugal)

Nir Jaimovich (Duke University)

Arvind Krishnamurthy (Northwestern University)

Jennifer La’O (University of Chicago)

John V. Leahy (New York University)

Wolfgang Lemke (European Central Bank)

Caterina Mendicino (Banco de Portugal)

Delfim Gomes Neto (Universidade do Minho)

João César das Neves (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)

Juan Pablo Nicolini (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)

Guillermo L. Ordoñez (Yale University)

Mário R. Páscoa (University of Surrey and Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Adriano A. Rampini (Duke University)

Sérgio Rebelo (Northwestern University)

Catarina Reis (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)

Ricardo Reis (Columbia University)

André Castro Silva (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Alp Simsek (Harvard University)

Henry E. Siu (University of British Columbia)

José A. Tavares (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Pedro Teles (Banco de Portugal)

Laura Veldkamp (New York University)

Marcelo Veracierto (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)

Iván Werning (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Michael Woodford (Columbia University)

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