Research Events
Conference on International Economics
Co-sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and University of Houston
| Friday, October 7 | |
| Dallas Fed, Southwestern Room | |
| 8:15 a.m. | Welcome Remarks |
| Mark Wynne, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas | |
| 8:30 a.m. | The Costs of Sovereign Default |
| Benjamin Hebert, Stanford University Jesse Schreger, Princeton University Discussant: Luigi Bocola, Northwestern University |
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| 9:55 a.m. | Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises, Revisited: The Art of the Desperate Deal |
| Mark Aguiar, Princeton University Satyajit Chatterjee, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Zachary Stangebye, Notre Dame University Discussant: Vivian Yue, Emory University |
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| 11:20 a.m. | A Unified Approach to Estimating Demand and Welfare |
| Steve Redding, Princeton University David Weinstein, Columbia University Discussant: Benjamin Malin, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis |
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| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| Moderated Q&A with President Robert Kaplan | |
| 1:45 p.m. | Deviations from Covered Interest Rate Parity |
| Wenxin Du, Federal Reserve Board Alexander Tepper, Columbia University Adrien Verdelhan, MIT Sloan Discussant: Hanno Lustig, Stanford University |
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| 3:10 p.m. | On the Geography of Global Value Chains |
| Pol Antras, Harvard University and
Alonso de Gortari, Harvard University Discussant: Robert Johnson, Dartmouth College |
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| 4:35 p.m. | The Role of Trade Costs in the Surge of Trade Imbalances |
| Ricardo Reyes-Heroles, Federal Reserve Board Discussant: Jing Zhang, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago |
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| Saturday, October 8 | |
| Dallas Fed, Southwestern Room | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Unsustainable Exchange Rate Policies |
| Manuel Amador, University of Minnesota Javier Bianchi, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Luigi Bocola, Northwestern University Fabrizio Perri, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Discussant: Michael Devereux, University of British Columbia |
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| 9:55 a.m. | Reallocation, Competition, and Productivity: Evidence from a Financial Liberalization Episode |
| Liliana Varela, University of Houston Discussant: Laura Alfaro, Harvard University |
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| 11:20 a.m. | What Do Exporters Know? |
| Michael Dickstein, New York University
Eduardo Morales, Princeton University Discussant: Jonathan Eaton, Penn State University |
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Organizers
- Kei-Mu Yi
- Mike Sposi
- Mark Wynne