## Junior Macrofinance Conference

**JUNIOR MACROFINANCE CONFERENCE** **NYU STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS** *Featuring:*
[**Ali Shourideh** ](http://www.shourideh.com/)(Wharton) and [**Ariel Zetlin-Jones**](http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/azj/) (Carnegie-Mellon)
"[External financing and the role of financial frictions
over the business cycle: Measurement and Theory](http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/azj/research/draft28.pdf)"
Discussant: [**Virgiliu Midrigan**](http://virgiliu.weebly.com/) (NYU)

[**Alp Simsek**](http://economics.mit.edu/faculty/asimsek) (MIT) and [**Anton Korinek**](http://www.korinek.com/) (Johns Hopkins)
"[Liquidity Trap and Excessive Leverage](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7078163/website/papers/liquidityTrapExcessiveLeverage.pdf)"
Discussant: [**Gauti Eggertsson**](http://www.econ.brown.edu/fac/Gauti_Eggertsson/) (Brown)

[**Tim McQuade**](http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/timothy-james-mcquade) (Stanford GSB)
"[Stochastic Volatility and Asset Pricing Puzzles](http://web.stanford.edu/~tmcquade/StochVol.pdf)"
Discussant: [**Stan Zin**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/stanley-zin) (NYU)

[**Zhiguo He**](http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/zhiguo.he/) (Chicago GSB) and [**Peter Kondor**](http://www.personal.ceu.hu/staff/Peter_Kondor/index.php) (CEU)
"[Inefficient Investment Waves](http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/zhiguo.he/research/hekondor.pdf)"
Discussant: [**Anton Korinek**](http://www.korinek.com/) (Johns Hopkins)

[**Gabriel Chodorow-Reich**](http://scholar.harvard.edu/chodorow-reich/home) (Harvard)
"[Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policy on Financial Institutions](http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/chodorow-reich/files/paper.pdf)"
Discussant: [**Tobias Adrian**](http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/economists/adrian/index.html) (NY Fed)