Program

Saturday, 26 May

Session 1: "Assymetric information, trading, and liquidity"

Chair: Dimitri Vayanos, LSE.

Presenters: Albert ’Pete’ Kyle, Maryland & Darrell Duffie, Stanford.

Commentators: Laura Veldkamp, Columbia & Veronica Guerrieri, Chicago.

Session 2: "Financial intermediaries and liquidity creation"

Chair: Jean-Charles Rochet, Zürich.

Presenters: Douglas Diamond, Chicago & Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Princeton.

Commentators: Neil Wallace, Penn State & Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard.

Session 3: "Financial regulation"

Chair: Nicola Gennaioli, Bocconi.

Presenters: Raghuram Rajan, Chicago & Gary Gorton, Yale.

Commentators: Amit Seru, Stanford & Martin Hellwig, Max Planck Institute.

Session 4: "Indebtedness of governments, firms, and households"

Chair: Lars EO Svensson, SSE & SU.

Presenters: Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard & Atif Mian, Princeton.

Commentators: Alan Taylor, UC Davis & Martin Schneider, Stanford.

Session 5: "International Financial Crises"

Chair: Michael Bordo, Rutgers.

Presenters: Carmen Reinhart, Harvard & Ricardo Caballero, MIT.

Commentators: Helene Rey, London Business School & Guido Lorenzoni, Northwestern.

Sunday, 27 May

Session 1: "Lessons from the global financial crisis, and crises past"

Chair: Guillermo Calvo, Columbia.

Presenters: Ben Bernanke, Brookings & Barry Eichengreen, Berkeley.

Commentators: Olivier Blanchard, MIT & Randall Kroszner, Chicago.

Session 2: "Leverage and cycles"

Chair: John Moore, Edingburgh.

Presenters: Andrei Shleifer, Harvard & John Geanakoplos, Yale

Commentators: Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton & José Scheinkman, Columbia.

Session 3: "Modern DSGE models: Theory and evidence"

Chair: Gauti Eggertsson, Brown.

Presenters: Martin Eichenbaum, Northwestern & Harald Uhlig, Chicago.

Commentators: Silvana Tenreyro, LSE & Ellen McGrattan, Minnesota.

Session 4: "The bank lending channel"

Chair: Mariassunta Giannetti, SSE & Swedish House of Finance.

Presenters: Mark Gertler, NYU & Jeremy Stein, Harvard.

Commentators: Bengt Holmström, MIT & V.V. Chari, Minnesota.

Session 5: "Monetary policy: Conventional and unconventional"

Chair: John Taylor, Stanford.

Presenters: Michael Woodford, Columbia & Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe, Columbia.

Commentators: Emi Nakamura, Columbia & John Cochrane, Stanford & Hoover.

Monday, 28 May

Panel 1: "Macroeconomic research and the financial crisis: A critical assessment"

Moderator: John Hassler, IIES.

Panelists:
Annette Vissing-Jørgensen, Berkeley.
Luigi Zingales, Chicago.
Nancy Stokey, Chicago.
Robert Barro, Harvard.

Panel 2: "Banking and finance research and the financial crisis: A critical assessment"

Moderator: Bo Becker, SSE & Swedish House of Finance.

Panelists:
Kristin Forbes, MIT.
Ricardo Reis, LSE.
Amir Sufi, Chicago.
Antoinette Schoar, MIT.