May 29, 9:30-17:50 & May 30, 9:15-13:20, 2017 Venue:CIGS Meeting Room3
CIGS Conference on Macroeconomic Theory and Policy 2017
On May 29 & 30, 2017, CIGS hosted the “CIGS Conference on Macroeconomic Theory and Policy 2017” under the theme of “Monetary Policy in the 21st Century” where world-leading scholars and researchers in macroeconomics as well as Japanese young researchers gathered for deep discussions.
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Agenda for the conference on May 29 & 30, 2017
AgendaPDF:193KB
Presentations and papers
Welcome Remarks
Presentation
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Presenter: Dean Corbae (University of Wisconsin)
"Capital Requirements in a Quantitative Model of Banking Industry Dynamics"
(with Pablo D'Erasmo)
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Presenter: Toan Phan (University of North Carolina)
"Bubbly Recessions" (with Siddhartha Biswas and Andrew Hanson)
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Presenter: Shigenori Shiratsuka (Bank of Japan)
"Evolution of Unconventional Monetary Policy: Japan's Experiences"
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Presenter: Cathy Zhang (Purdue University)
"Corporate Finance and Monetary Policy" (with Guillaume Rocheteau and Randall Wright)
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Presenter: Hibiki Ichiue (Bank of Japan)
"A Macroeconomic Forecast-implied Shadow Rate and Unconventional Monetary Policy Effects
" (with Yoichi Ueno)
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Presenter: Thomas Winberry (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
"Financial Heterogeneity and the Investment Channel of Monetary Policy"
(with Pablo Ottonellc)
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Presenter: James Bullard (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
"Incomplete Credit Markets and Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Labor Supply"
(with Aarti Singh)
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Presenter: Ricardo Reis (London School of Economics)
"Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing with Yield Curve Control"
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Presenter: Ippei Fujiwara (Keio University and ANU) and Yuichiro Waki (University of Queensland)
"Private News and Monetary Policy"

(Mr. Fujiwara)

(Mr. Waki)
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Presenter: Paolo Pesenti (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
"Totoro and his neighbors: Global spillovers of monetary policy in a low interest rate environment"
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Presenter: Pierpaolo Benigno (LUISS and EIEF)
"A Central Bank Theory of Price Level Determination"
Closing Remarks