Conference on Advances in Macro-Finance Research

Date

Friday, Oct 11, 2024

Time

8:45 am PDT

Location

San Francisco, CA

Topics

Financial MarketsMacroeconomicsMonetary Policy

Opening Remarks

Speaker:

Sylvain Leduc, Director of Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Session One

Chair:

Michael Bauer, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Unlocking Mortgage Lock-In: Evidence from a Spatial Housing Ladder Model

Authors:

Julia Fonseca, UIUC Gies
Lu Liu, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton
Pierre Mabille, INSEAD

Discussant:

Daniel Greenwald, NYU Stern School of Business

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Asset Purchase Rules: How QE Transformed the Bond Market

Authors:

Valentin Haddad, University of California, Los Angeles
Alan Moreira, University of Rochester
Tyler Muir, University of California, Los Angeles

Discussant:

Thomas King, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

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Session Two

Chair:

Thomas Mertens, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Aggregation, Liquidity, and Asset Prices with Incomplete Markets

Authors:

Sebastian Di Tella, Stanford University
Benjamin Hebert, Stanford University
Pablo Kurlat, University of Southern California

Discussant:

Adrien Auclert, Stanford University

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The Risky Capital of Emerging Markets

Authors:

Felix Gerding, Bocconi University
Espen Henriksen, BI Norwegian Business School
Ina Simonovska, University of California, Davis

Discussant:

Tony Zhang, Federal Reserve Board

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Keynote

What Hundreds of Economic News Events Say About Belief Overreaction in the Stock Market

Speaker:

Sydney Ludvigson, New York University

Session Three

Chair:

Thomas Mertens, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Risk and Risk-Free Rates

Authors:

Mete Kilic, University of Southern California
Zhao Zhang, University of Southern California
Aleksandr Zotov, International Monetary Fund

Discussant:

Anna Cieslak, Duke’s Fuqua School of Business

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Exchange Rates, Natural Rates, and the Price of Risk

Authors:

Rohan Kekre, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Moritz Lenel, Princeton University

Discussant:

Hanno Lustig, Stanford University Graduate School of Business

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