Schedule

Spring 2020 Schedule
The Carnegie-Rochester-NYU Conference on Public Policy is about “Central Banking in the 2020s and Beyond”. Accepted papers and comments will be published in the January 2021 issue of the Journal of Monetary Economics.

A preliminary schedule is below. Scheduled presenters are emboldened. You can also print this schedule.

 

Friday, April 24

8:30-9:30 a.m. “Stabilization Policy in a Low-Interest-Rate World: Consequences of Limited Foresight”

Authors: Michael Woodford (Columbia University) and Yinxi Xie (Columbia University)
Discussant: Chen Lian (MIT)
9:30-10:30 a.m. “No Firm is an Island? How Industry Conditions Shape Firms’ Aggregate Expectations”

Authors: Philippe Andrade (FRB-Boston), Olivier Coibion (UT-Austin), Erwan Gautier (Banque de France), and Yuriy Gorodnichenko (UC-Berkeley)
Discussant: Isabelle Salle (Bank of Canada)
10:30-11 a.m.
Break
 
11 a.m.-noon “Climate Change and Central Bank Policy”

Author: Lars Peter Hansen (University of Chicago)
Discussant: Anthony Smith (Yale University)
Noon-1:30 p.m.
Lunch
 
1:30-2:30 p.m. “Designing Central Bank Digital Currencies”

Authors: Itai Agur (IMF), Anil Ari (IMF), and Giovanni Dell’Ariccia (IMF)
Discussant: Carolyn Wilkins (Bank of Canada)
2:30-3:30 p.m. “On the Welfare Implications of Eliminating Cash”

Authors: Fernando Alvarez (University of Chicago), David Argente (Penn State), and Francisco Lippi (EIEF)
Discussant: Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University
3:30-4 p.m.
Break
 
4-5 p.m. “Optimal Monetary Policy and Transparency with an Imperfectly Informed Central Banker”

Authors: Luigi Iovino (Bocconi), Jennifer La’O (Columbia), and Rui Mascarenhas (Columbia)
Discussant: V. V. Chari (Minnesota)
6-8 p.m.
Reception and Dinner
 

Saturday, April 25

8:45-9:45 a.m. “The Supply and Demand for Safe Assets”

Authors: Gary Gorton (Yale) and Guillermo Ordonez (Penn)
Discussant: Moritz Lenel (Princeton)
9:45-10:15 a.m.
Coffee Break
 
10:15-11:15 a.m. “Central Bank Policy and the Concentration of Risk”

Authors: Nuno Coimbra (PSE), Daisoon Kim (NC State), and Helene Rey (London Business School)
Discussant: Nina Boyarchenko (FRB-New York)
11:15 a.m.
Close of Conference - Box Lunches Available