The Notre Dame – PUC Luksburg Conference on Recent Advances in Macroeconomics

Sala 209

9:30 Registration and coffee
10:00 “Real Interest Rates, Inflation, and Default”
Illenin Kondo – University of Notre Dame
Sewon Hur – Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Fabrizio Perri – Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
11:00 “Reserve Accumulation, Macroeconomic Stabilization and Sovereign Risk”
César Sosa-Padilla – University of Notre Dame
Javier Bianchi – Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
12:00 Coffee break
12:20 “The Macroeconomics of Hedging Income Shares”
Facundo Piguillem – Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
Adriana Grasso – LUISS Guido Carli
Juan Passadore – Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
13:20 Lunch (by invitation)
14:40 “Trade in Commodities and Business Cycle Volatility”
David Kohn – PUC Chile
Fernando Leibovici – Federal Reserve Bank St. Louis
Hakon Tretvoll – Statistics Norway
15:40 Coffee break
16:00 “The Dynamics of the U.S. Trade Balance and Real Exchange Rate: The J Curve and Trade Costs?”
George Alessandria – University of Rochester
Horag Choi – Monash University