Women in Central Banking Workshop

November 1, 2024

Dallas

The Women in Central Banking Workshop provides a platform for female PhD students working on topics relevant for central banks to present and receive feedback on their work. The workshop will foster interaction between presenters, conference attendees and senior economists working in central banks, providing ample opportunity for discussions and networking.

When

November 1, 2024

Where

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
2200 N. Pearl St.
Dallas, TX 75201

Know before you go

Agenda

Friday, Nov. 1
8:00 a.m.	Registration and breakfast
8:45 a.m.	Welcome address Lorie Logan, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
9:00 a.m.	Session 1: Banks and financial markets Chair: Alessio Saretto, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Financing Intangibles Bianca He, Chicago Booth Discussant: Sam Schulhofer-Wohl, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Bank Funding to Nonbank Financiers—Risk Sharing or Regulatory Arbitrage Clara Xu, Wharton School Discussant: Jonathan Cohn, University of Texas at Austin
10:20 a.m.	Break
10:50 a.m.	Session 2: Monetary policy Chair: Eleonora Granziera, Norges Bank Monetary Policy across Inflation Regimes Valeria Gargiulo, Pompeu Fabra University; Christian Matthes, Indiana University and Katerina Petrova, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Discussant: Elisa Guglielminetti, Bank of Italy Overcoming Trend Inflation—The Power of Average Inflation Targeting Fangqian Wu, Drexel University Discussant: Enrique Martínez García, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
12:10 p.m.	Lunch break, with posters (listed below)
1:30 p.m.	Keynote address Anna Paulson, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
2:30 p.m.	Break
3:00 p.m.	Session 3: Macro Chair: Xiaoqing Zhou, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Bridging the Employment Debate—The Minimum Wage, Monopsonistic Competition, and Automation Jonathan Arnold and Jordan Peeples, University of Pennsylvania Discussant: Lorenzo Aldeco, Banco de México Identifying Macroeconomic Shocks Using Firm-level Data—MaterialShortages in the German Manufacturing Sector Friederike Fourné and Lara Zarges, Ifo Institute Discussant: Sarah Zubairy, Texas A&M University
4:20 p.m	Break
4:40 p.m.	Session 4: International trade Chair: Lucie Lebeau, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Foreign Exchange Risk Management Across the Production Network Wentong Chen and Jisu Hwang, Cornell University Discussant: Wei Dong, Bank of Canada Trademarks and Gains from Variety—The Role of Multinational Enterprises Giulia Lo Forte, University of British Columbia Discussant: Doireann Fitzgerald, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
6:00 p.m.	Reception and dinner

Posters

Green Neighbors, Greener Neighborhoods
Christine Zhuowei Huang, University of Texas at Dallas
Green Innovation in Multiproduct Firms, Environmental Policy, and Sustainable Investing
Daria Matviienko, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Wealth Inequality and Labor Mobility: The Job Trap
Elena Pellegrini, Boston College
Local Projections Inference with High-Dimensional Covariates without Sparsity
Jooyoung Cha, Vanderbilt University
Build What and Where? The Distributional Effects of Housing Supply
Lei Ma, Boston University
Are Millennials Ruining Monetary Policy? Student Loan Debt and Monetary Policy Transmission
Molly Shatto, University of California San Diego
How Closing of Minority Depository Institutions Affects Credit in Their Communities
Noara Razzak, Clemson University
Stubborn Dollarization in Emerging Markets
Sage Belz, with Giselle Montamat (Canva) and Lina Thomas, Harvard University
Asset Purchase Programs and the Exchange Rate
Sinem Yagmur Toraman, Johns Hopkins University
"Bank Walks" with Central Bank Digital Currency: Effects on Deposit Competition and Stability
Xiaoying Li, Indiana University

Call for papers

We encourage female PhD students at all stages of their PhD studies to submit their work. Submissions in all areas of economics and finance, but especially macroeconomics, monetary economics, labor economics, international economics, international finance, financial intermediation, econometrics, energy economics, big data and other topics of general interest to central banks are welcome. Selected papers will be assigned a discussant. The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas will cover travel and accommodation costs of presenters and discussants, subject to Federal Reserve travel guidelines.

Submission

Papers should be submitted to dal.fed.research@dal.frb.org with subject line “Women in Central Banking Workshop Submission,” by Aug. 15, 2024. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by mid-September. If you have questions, please email Nitzan Tzur-Ilan.

Scientific Committee

Hilde C. Bjørnland, BI Norwegian Business School
Tatjana Dahlhaus, Bank of Canada
Wei Dong, Bank of Canada
Rocio Elizondo, Banco de México
Emilia Garcia-Appendini, Norges Bank
Eleonora Granziera, Norges Bank
Klodiana Istrefi, Banque de France
Marek Jarociński, European Central Bank
Haoyang Liu, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Natalya Martynova, Bundesbank
Isabelle Mejean, SciencesPo
Karel Mertens, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Galo Nuño, Banco de España
Ali Ozdagli, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Ilaria Supino, Bank of Italy

Organizing Committee

Emilia Garcia-Appendini, Norges Bank
Eleonora Granziera, Norges Bank
Kasper Roszbach, Norges Bank
Lucie Lebeau, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Pia Orrenius, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Nitzan Tzur-Ilan, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Mark Wynne, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Fang Yang, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Xiaoqing Zhou, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas