PROGRAM
9:00 - 9:30 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30 a.m. Yan Bai (University of Rochester)
"Monetary Policy and Sovereign Risk in Emerging Economies" (with Cristina Arellano and Gabriel Mihalache)
10:30 - 11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 - 12:00 p.m. Nina Boyarchenko (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
"Flighty Liquidity" (with Domenico Giannone and Or Shachar)
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Todd Keister (Rutgers University)
"Should Central Banks Issue Digital Currency?" (with Daniel Sanches)
2:00 - 2:15 p.m. Break
2:15 - 3:15 p.m. Fabrizio Perri (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
"Unequal Growth" (with Francesco Lippi)
3:15 - 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Shouyong Shi (Pennsylvania State University)
"Post-Match Investment and Dynamic Sorting between Capital and Labor"
6:30 p.m. Reception
7:30 p.m. Dinner
To register or for more information, please e-mail Sharon Sullivan at sullivas@econ.queensu.ca. Please register by April 17th.
ACCOMMODATION
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Delta Hotel, 1 Johnson Street (in downtown Kingston), for the nights of Thursday, May 9th and/or Friday, May 10th at a special conference rate of $159.00 per night, plus taxes. Reservations can be made by clicking here, or calling the hotel directly at 1-888-548-6726, and say that you are booking under the Block of Rooms "Frontiers of Macroeconomics Workshop". The block of rooms will be available until April 9th, so please book your room as soon as possible.
PARKING ON CAMPUS
Park in the underground Nixon Field garage on the corner of Stuart and University as show on this map. Exit the garage in the back and walk up the hill on University Avenue. Dunning Hall is at the southwest corner of University and Union before the traffic light.
Sponsored by the Scarthingmoor Fund and Weatherall Fund.