## 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](http://jme.rochester.edu/).

A preliminary schedule is below. Scheduled presenters are emboldened. You can also [print this schedule](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/eco/assets/pdf/preliminary-schedule_crnyu_april-2020.pdf). ##

## 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

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