Events



Financial Frictions: Macroeconomic Implications and Policy Options for Emerging Economies (13 - 14 de mayo 2021)

Workshop

The Economic Research Unit is pleased to invite you to the online Conference “Financial Frictions: Macroeconomic Implications and Policy Options for Emerging Economies” jointly organized with the Financial Stability and Development Network from the Interamerican Development Bank and the Journal of International Economics.

The event will take place on Thursday, May 13 and Friday, May 14 from 8:30am to 4:15pm on Zoom. The Conference will host presentations of eleven academic papers on topics such as macro-prudential policies, financial crises and sudden stops, and sovereign debt and default risk, among others, from an emerging economies perspective.

For more information, please contact fsd@iadb.org.


Thursday, May 13th

Opening Remarks

Mario Marcel, Governor, Central Bank of Chile


Welcome Remarks

Eric Parrado, Chief Economist and General Manager, Inter-American Development Bank


Bank foreign currency hedging and the impact on covered interest parity: an Emerging Market perspective

Georgia Bush, Banco de Mexico

Discussant: Sergio Schmukler, World Bank
Discussant: Ricardo Correa, Federal Reserve Board
Discussion


Capital Controls, Domestic Macroprudential Policy and the Bank Lending Channel of Monetary Policy”

Andrea Fabiani, Universität Pompeu Fabra
Martha López Piñeros, Banco de la República 
José-Luis Peydró, Imperial College London and ICREA-Universität Pompeu Fabra-CREI 
Paul Soto, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Discussant: Bent Sorensen, University of Houston
Discussant: Nadav Ben Zeev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Discussion


Are Collateral-Constraint Models Ready for Macroprudential Policy Design?

Pablo Ottonello, University of Michigan
Diego Perez, New York University
Paolo Varraso, New York University

Discussant: Sebastian Fanelli, Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI)
Discussant: Facundo Piguillem, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
Discussion


Macroprudential Leakages

Julien Bengui, Bank of Canada
Javier Bianchi, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Discussant: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Discussant: Roberto Chang, Rutgers University
Discussion


External shocks and FX intervention policy in emerging economies

David Florián, Banco Central de Reserva del Peru 
Alex Carrasco, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology


Welfare Effects of Capital Controls

Eugenia Andreasen, Universidad de Chile · Sofía Bauducco, Central Bank of Chile ·
Evangelina Dardati, Centro de Estudios Publicos


Friday, May 14th

International Reserves and Central Bank Independence

Agustin Samano, University of Minnesota and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Discussant: Leonardo Martinez, International Monetary Fund
Discussant: Philippe Bacchetta, University of Lausanne
Discussion


Sovereign Spreads and the Effects of Fiscal Austerity

Diego Anzoategui, Rutgers University

Discussant: Juan Carlos Hatchondo, Western University
Discussant: Ignacio Presno, Federal Reserve Board
Discussion


Reserve Accumulation, Growth and Financial Crises

Gianluca Benigno, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, London School of Economics and CEPR 
Luca Fornaro, CREI and CEPR
Martin Wolf, Vienna University

Discussant: Cesar Sosa-Padilla, Notre Dame
Discussant: Samer Shousha, Federal Reserve Board
Discussion


Productivity and Trade Dynamics in Sudden Stops

Felipe Benguria, University of Kentucky 
Hidehiko Matsumoto, Bank of Japan 
Felipe Saffie, University of Virginia

Discussant: Carlos Urrutia, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Discussant: Ricardo Reyes-Heroles, Federal Reserve Board
Discussion


The macroeconomic effects of macroprudential policy: Evidence from a narrative approach

Diego Rojas, World Bank and University of Maryland-Baltimore County
Carlos Vegh, Johns Hopkins University
Guillermo Vuletin, World Bank

Discussant: David Papell, University of Houston
Discussant: Markus Kirchner, Central Bank of Chile
Discussion


 
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