Friday, October 5, 2018
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Session 1. Risk-Pricing in Asset Markets
Reflexivity in Credit Markets
Presenter: Lawrence Jin, California Institute of Technology
Discussant: Valentin Haddad, University of California, Los Angeles
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Horizon-Dependent Risk-Pricing
Presenter: Eben Lazarus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Discussant: Yang Song, University of Washington
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Session 2. Macro-Finance
Accounting for Medium-Run Macro-Finance Trends
Presenter: Francois Gourio, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Discussant: Martin Lettau, University of California, Berkeley
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Luncheon Keynote Speaker: John H. Cochrane, Stanford University
Session 3. Firms and the Allocation of Capital
Risk-Adjusted Capital Allocation and Misallocation
Presenter: Joel David, University of Southern California
Discussant: Jules Van Binsbergen, University of Pennsylvania
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Small and Large Firms over the Business Cycle
Presenter: Nicolas Crouzet, Northwestern University
Discussant: Vincenzo Quadrini, University of Southern California
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Session 4. Safe Assets
Safe Assets, Collateralized Lending, and Monetary Policy
Presenter: Moritz Lenel, Princeton University
Discussant: Arvind Krishnamurthy, Stanford University
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Conference organizer:
Thomas M. Mertens, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Program Committee:
Michael D. Bauer, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Kevin J. Lansing, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Pascal Paul, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco