Agenda - San Francisco Fed

Date

Friday, November 7, 2014

Friday, October 17

8:00 a.m.	Continental breakfast

8:45 a.m.	Welcoming Remarks
	John C. Williams, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
9:00 a.m.	Session 1: International Competitiveness and Stabilization Policy
	Paul Bergin, University of California, Davis Giancarlo Corsetti, University of Cambridge Discussants: Fabio Ghironi, University of Washington Paolo Pesenti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Download paper (pdf, 340 kb)
9:55 a.m.	General Discussion

10:10 a.m.	Break

10:25 a.m.	Session 2: Uncertainty Betas and International Capital Flows
	François Gourio, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Michael Siemer, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Adrien Verdelhan, MIT Sloan School of Management Discussants: Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, University of California, Berkeley Michael Bauer, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
11:25 p.m.	General Discussion

11:35 p.m.	Break

11:50 p.m.	Session 3: How much do Bank Shocks Affect Investment? Evidence from Matched Bank-Firm Loan Data
	Mary Amiti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York David Weinstein, Columbia University Discussants: Robert Dekle, University of Southern California Katheryn Russ, University of California, Davis Download paper (pdf, 1.9 mb)
12:45 p.m	General Discussion

1:00 p.m	Lunch

2:25 p.m.	Session 4: Rapid Aging and Pension Reform: The Case of China
	Hui He, International Monetary Fund Ning Lei, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Dongming Zhu, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Discussants: Steven Lugauer, University of Notre Dame Vivian Yue, Emory University\|Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Download paper (pdf, 229 kb)
3:20 p.m.	General Discussion

3:35 p.m.	Break

3:50 p.m.	Session 5: The Implications of a Graying Japan for Government Policy
	R. Anton Braun, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Douglas H. Joines, University of Southern California Discussants: Alan J. Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley Gary D. Hansen, University of California, Los Angeles Download paper (pdf, 831 kb)
4:45 p.m.	General Discussion

5:00 p.m.	Reception

6:00 p.m.	Dinner

6:45 p.m.	Keynote Address: Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University

Scheduled session speakers in bold.