“The International Monetary System, the PBoC and the RMB, Fragmentation & Decoupling, Fragmentation and Inflation”

Those are some of the topic areas of this year’s NBER International Seminar in Macroeconomics, which took place in Split, Croatia.

Central Banker to the World: Foreign Reserve Management and U.S. Money Market Liquidity
Ron Alquist, Managed Funds Association
Robert Jay Kahn, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Karlye Dilts Stedman, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Discussants:

Adrien d’Avernas, Stockholm School of Economics
Alan M. Taylor, Columbia University and NBER
Seizing Central Bank Assets?
Massimo Ferrari Minesso, European Central Bank
Tobias Krahnke, European Central Bank
Arnaud J. Mehl, European Central Bank
Isabel Vansteenkiste, European Central Bank

 

Discussants:

Jeffrey A. Frankel, Harvard University and NBER

Dmitry Mukhin, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

A Nascent International Financial Channel of China’s Monetary Policy Transmission
Chang Ma, Fudan University
Alessandro Rebucci, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
Sili Zhou, University of Macau

 

Discussants:

Hélène Rey, London Business School and NBER
Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University and NBER
How to Grow an Invoicing Currency: Micro Evidence from Argentina
Felipe Benguria, University of Kentucky
Dennis Novy, University of Warwick
Discussants:
Meredith Crowley, University of Cambridge
Ryan Chahrour, Cornell University and NBER
Covered Interest Parity in Emerging Markets: Measurement and Drivers
Mai C. Dao, International Monetary Fund
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Discussants:

Saleem Bahaj, University College London
Charles Engel, University of Wisconsin – Madison and NBER

Playing with Blocs: Quantifying Decoupling

Barthélémy Bonadio, New York University Abu Dhabi
Zhen Huo, Yale University
Elliot Kang, University of Michigan
Andrei A. Levchenko, University of Michigan and NBER
Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Hiroshi Toma, University of Michigan
Petia Topalova, International Monetary Fund

 

Discussants:

Thomas Sampson, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Laura Alfaro, Harvard University and NBER
Granularity in the Current Account
Miriam Koomen, Swiss National Bank
Laurence Wicht, Swiss National Bank

 

Discussants:

Jurica Zrnc, Croatian National Bank
Menzie D. Chinn, University of Wisconsin – Madison and NBER
Trade Fragmentation, Inflationary Pressures and Monetary Policy
Maria Ludovica Ambrosino, London Business School
Jenny Chan, Bank of England
Silvana Tenreyro, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Discussants:
Mishel Ghassibe, Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREi)
Linda Tesar, University of Michigan and NBER