Conference on Advances in Financial Research

Welcome and Introductory Remarks

Session 1. Monetary Policy Transmission

Financial Heterogeneity and the Investment Channel of Monetary Policy

Thomas Winberry, University of Chicago

Discussant:
Adrien Auclert, Stanford University

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Banking on Deposits: Maturity Transformation without Interest Rate Risk

Alexi Savov, New York University

Discussant:
Monika Piazzesi, Stanford University

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Session 2. Asset Pricing and the Macroeconomy

Uncertainty Shocks as Second-Moment News Shocks

Ian Dew-Becker, Northwestern University

Discussant:
Kyle Jurado, Duke University

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Discount Rates and Employment Fluctuations

Jaroslav Borovicka, New York University

Discussant:
Martin Schneider, Stanford University

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Session 3. Financial Markets and the Fed

The Economics of the Fed Put

Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, University of California at Berkeley

Discussant:
David Lucca, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

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Fearing the Fed: How Wall Street Reads Main Street

Dongho Song, Boston College

Discussant:
Mikhail Chernov, University of California at Los Angeles

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Session 4. Safe Assets

Does Precautionary Savings Drive the Real Interest Rate? Evidence from the Stock Market

Emil Siriwardane, Harvard Business School

Discussant:
Hanno Lustig, Stanford University

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Conference Organizer:

Thomas M. Mertens

Program Committee:

Michael D. Bauer
Kevin J. Lansing
Pascal Paul