2024 Pacific Basin Research Conference

Date

Friday, Nov 22, 2024

Location

San Francisco, CA

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Welcoming Remarks

Speaker:

Zheng Liu, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Morning Session

Chair:

Zheng Liu, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Demographics, Wealth, and Global Imbalances in the Twenty-First Century

Authors:

Adrien Auclert, Stanford University
Hannes Malmberg, University of Minnesota
Frédéric Martenet, Stanford University
Matthew Rognlie, Northwestern University

Discussant:

Vincenzo Quadrini, University of Southern California

Pandemic-Era Inflation Drivers and Global Spillovers

Authors:

Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Brown University
Julian di Giovanni, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Alvaro Silva, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Muhammed Yildirim, Harvard University and Koç University

Discussant:

Robert Johnson, University of Notre Dame

Bottom-up Institutional Change and Growth: Theory and Evidence from China

Authors:

Xiaodong Zhu, Hong Kong University

Discussant:

Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago

Afternoon Session

Chair:

Sanjay Singh, Federal Reserve Bank San Francisco

Exchange Rate Disconnect and the Trade Balance

Authors:

Pablo Cuba-Borda, Board of Governors
Martin Bodenstein, Board of Governors
Nils Goernemann, Board of Governors
Ignacio Presno, Board of Governors

Discussant:

Dmitry Mukhin, London School of Economics

International Lending in War and Peace

Authors:

Christoph Trebesch, Kiel Institute and Kiel University
Sebastian Horn, World Bank
Carmen Reinhart, Harvard University

Discussant:

Laura Alfaro, Harvard University

Superstars or Supervillains? Large Firms in the South Korean Growth Miracle

Authors:

Dimitrije Ruzic, INSEAD
Jaedo Choi, Board of Governors
Andrei Levchenko, University of Michigan
Younghun Shim, International Monetary Fund

Discussant:

Yueran Ma, University of Chicago

Closing Keynote Address

The Macroeconomic Consequences of Exchange Rate Depreciations

Speaker:

Masao Fukui, Boston University
Emi Nakamura, University of California, Berkeley
Jon Steinsson, University of California, Berkeley

Organizing Committee:

Zheng Liu, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Thuy-Lan Nguyen, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Sanjay Singh, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco