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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC

 

INTERNATIONAL FINANCE AND MACROECONOMICS PROGRAM MEETING

Charles Engel and Linda Tesar, Organizers

 

October 22, 2010

 

NBER  Offices,

Martin Feldstein Conference Room 2nd Floor

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

 

PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21:

 

 

6:30 pm

Dinner

 

Bambara Restaurant

 

25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard ( Across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel )

 

Cambridge, MA

 

 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22:

 

 

7:45 am

Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta for NBER

8:00 am

Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta for NBER

 

 

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:30 am

LAURA ALFARO, Harvard University and NBER

 

SEBNEM KALEMLI-OZCAN, University of Houston and NBER

 

International Capital Allocation, Sovereign Borrowing, and Growth

 

(Joint with Vasym Volosovych)

 

 

 

Discussant:       PIERRE-OLIVIER GOURINCHAS, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

9:30 am

Coffee Break

 

 

10:00 am

JONATHAN EATON, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

 

SAMUEL KORTUM, BRENT NEIMAN and JOHN ROMALIS,

                                                                       University of Chicago and NBER

 

Trade and the Global Recession

 

 

 

Discussant:       GEORGE ALESSANDRIA, Federal Reserve Bank

                                                                                                of Philadelphia

 

 

11:00 am

ANDREI LEVCHENKO, University of Michigan and NBER

 

JING ZHANG, University of Michigan

 

The Evolution of Comparative Advantage: Measurement and

 Welfare Implications

 

 

 

Discussant:       COSTAS ARKOLAKIS, Yale University and NBER

 

 

12:00 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

NICOLA GENNAIOLI and ALBERTO MARTIN, CREI

 

STEFANO ROSSI, Imperial College

 

Sovereign Default, Domestic Banks and Financial Institutions

 

 

 

Discussant:       MARK AGUIAR, University of Rochester and NBER

 

 

2:00 pm

Coffee Break

 

 

2:30 pm

CHRISTOPHER ERCEG and JESPER LINDE, Federal Reserve Board

 

Asymmetric Shocks in a Currency Union with Monetary and Fiscal Handcuffs

 

 

 

Discussant:       ANDREA FERRERO, Federal Reserve  Bank of New York

 

 

3:30 pm

NICOLA BORRI, LUISS

 

ADRIEN VERDELHAN, MIT and NBER

 

Sovereign Risk Premia

 

 

 

Discussant:       VIVIAN YUE, New York University

 

 

4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

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