2025-2026
Alessandro Lavia (BC) - Equity Flows in Uncertain Times: the Role of Heterogeneous Information
Alfredo Mendoza Fernandez (Berkeley) - Do Central Banks Follow the Fed?
Felix Gerding (Bocconi) - Centrality, Risk, and Equity Returns Across Developed and Emerging Markets
Nimisha Gupta (Chicago) - Dollar Movements, Borrowing Constraints, and Firm Investment
Giovanni Bonfanti (Columbia) - A European Safe Asset? Not Without the Investors
Giovanni Donato (Geneva Graduate Institute) - The Exceptions that Prove the Rule? Revisiting the effectiveness of Capital Controls Under International Investment Agreements
Sage Belz (Harvard) - The Original Sin Revisited: Investor Composition and Sovereign Risk
Giuliano Simoncelli (Maryland) - Information Effects of Monetary Policy and Bond Yields in Emerging Markets
Oliver Ashtari-Tafti (LSE) - The Impact of Volatility on Arbitrageurs' Participation
Erin Gibson (Michigan) - Labor rigidities meet financial constraints: Evidence from Italy
Leonardo Barreto (Minnesota) - Debt-Financed Fiscal Stimulus, Heterogeneity, and Welfare
Carlos Bolivar (Minnesota) - Self-fulfilling Debt Crisis Due to Investor Heterogeneity
Teresa Balestrini (Minnesota) - Sovereign Defaults: Maturity Choice and Conditionality
Effie Karfaki (Minnesota) - Are Exchange Rate Shocks Contractionary or Expansionary? Evidence From Switzerland
Juliana Gamboa Arbelaez (Minnesota) - When Does Sovereign Borrowing Pay Off? The Case for Public Investment
Alex Carrasco (MIT) - The Endogenous Longevity Channel: Health Investments, Aggregate Savings, and Macroeconomic Policy
Pablo Bruera (MIT) - Reassessing Central Bank Reputation: Beyond Long-Run Expectations
Agustina Sampa (Nottingham) - Monetary Policy and R&D: Heterogeneous and Persistent Effects
Sanghwa Moon (OSU) - Official Lending and Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises
Lidia Smitkova (Oxford) - Export Subsidies as Industrial Policy: the Case of the 19th Century Sugar Industry
Sarah Duffy (Oxford) - Climate Change, Adaptation, and Sovereign Risk
Nicolas Hommel (Princeton) - Firms' Foreign Exchange Hedging
Naomi Cohen (Sciences Po) - Who Benefits from Capital Market Integration in the Euro Area?
Clemens Graf von Luckner (Stanford GSB) - Beyond Market Exclusion: Creditor Attrition After Sovereign Default
Oliver Xie (Stanford GSB) - Financial Hedging and Optimal Currency of Invoicing
Igor Antonio Araujo Carreira (UBC) - Default Risk and the Insurance Trade-offs: Bailouts or International Reserves?
Oliver Vogt (UBC) - FX Market Depth and Exchange Rate Volatility
Jeff Kinwai Cheung (UC Davis) - Monetary Shocks, Currency Exposures, and the Cost of Sovereign Default
Jaejun Yoon (UC Davis) - Understanding Exchange Rate Dynamics: The Fama Puzzle and Monetary Policy
Juan Rivera Catalan (University of Houston) - Commodity Prices, Sovereign Risk, and Macroeconomic Stability
Jay Rafi (UIUC) - The Effect of U.S. Monetary Policy on Foreign Firms: Does Debt Maturity Matter?
Fernando Rodrigues (UIUC) - The Seeds of a Crisis: Credit Market Responses to Commodity Price Shocks
Ahi Ismail (UCLA) - Welfare Implications of Reserve Regimes
Luigi Falasconi (UPenn) - Bailout Expectations, Default Risk and the Dynamics of Bank Credit Spreads
Peteris Kloks (University of St Gallen) - Swap Line Dollar Supply
Jose Ferrer (UVA) - Monetary-Fiscal-Capital Account Interactions in Small Open Economies
John Wilhoite (UVA) - Global Risk Aversion and Sovereign Debt Denomination
Yasumasa Morito (Wisconsin) - Foreign Reserve Accumulation and Exchange Rate Regime in Emerging Countries
2024-2025
Shane McMiken (BC) - Volatility and Systemic Financial Crises
Yuanchen Cai (BC) - Financial Skewness and the Macroeconomy
Bernardo Candia (Berkeley) - Inflation Expectations and Household Spending: Different Patterns in Low and High-Inflation Settings
Diego Friedheim (Bocconi) - Lenders' Expectations and Sovereign Debt Crises Contagion
Jiancong Liu (Bocconi) - Pro-Competitive Gains of Trade Facilitation: Evidence from China
Fred Seunghyun Maeng (Cambridge) - Default, Inflation Expectations, and the Currency Denomination of Sovereign Bonds
Naoki Yago (Cambridge) - Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies in a Global Economy
Olivier Kooi (Chicago) - Power and Resilience: An Economic Approach to National Security Policy
Rayhan Momin (Chicago Booth) - Effects and Design of Central Bank Corporate Credit Facilities
Emilio Zaratiegui (Columbia) - Macroprudential Policy with Firm Heterogeneity
Jongho Lee (Columbia) - The Synthetic Dollar Funding Channel of US Monetary Policy
Amanda Dos Santos (Columbia Business School) - The Development of Domestic Bond Markets
Wentong Chen (Cornell) - Foreign Exchange Risk Management Across the Production Network
Lingdi Xu (Harvard) - Foreign Ownership of Sovereign Debt and Bond Market Integration: The Case of China
Maxim Alekseev (Harvard) - Trade policy in the shadow of conflict: The case of dual-use goods
Andrew Berryhill (Indiana) - Costly Escape from Fiscal Rules: The Political Economy of Implementing Extraordinary Debt Repayment Clauses
Nino Kodua (Johns Hopkins) - Who's Right in the Inflation Targeting Debate in Emerging Markets?
Sinem Yagmur Toraman (Johns Hopkins) - Asset Purchase Programs and the Exchange Rate
Sarah Gertler (MIT) - Exchange Rate Pass-through and Expenditure-Switching Revisited
Hiroshi Toma (Michigan) - The Financial Propagation Mechanism of Commodity Booms
Emilio Colombi (Michigan) - The Distributional Consequences of Commodity Booms
Maurício Barbosa-Alves (Minnesota) - Climate Change and International Migration
Gabriel Devoto (Minnesota) - Aggregate Capital and Informality in High Inflation Economies
Nadia Pozdnyakova (NYU) - Exchange Rate Expectations and Aggregate Dynamics
Giovanni Sciacovelli (Northwestern) - Monetary Policy Transmission Through Adjustable-Rate Mortgages in the Euro Area
Viktoria Zezerova (Penn State) - Market Power, Misallocation, and Trade Policy
Chansik Yoon (Princeton) - Growth in the Shaded Sun: The Role of International Development Finance and Corruption
Joao Rudge Leite (Rochester) - Heterogeneous Banks and Transmission of Monetary Policy
Marcos Mac Mullen (Rochester) - Government Spending and International Transmission: Fiscal Rules in Imperfect Financial Markets
Chunya Bu (Rochester) - Business Cycle Accounting with Goods and Capital Market (Dis)Integration
Xiangtao (Jeremy) Meng (UC Davis) - Benchmarking and Sovereign Risk
Dongchen Zou (UPenn Wharton) - Bond Demand and the Yield-Exchange Rate Nexus: Risk Premium vs. Convenience Yield
Matteo Neri-Laine (Université Paris Dauphine) - Sovereign Gravity: The military Alliance Effect on Trade
Mikita Khurana (Washington) - Sudden Stops And Bank Competition
Julio Mereb (Wisconsin) - Foreign Currency Debt, Financial Frictions, and the Exchange Rate Pass-Through
Katya Kazakova (Wisconsin) - Firm's Public Listing, Investment, and Financing in the Presence of Private Information
Nicola Benigni (Zurich) - The Value of Government Debt with Domestic Arrears
2023-2024
Balduin Bippus (Cambridge) - Granular Banking Flows And Exchange-Rate Dynamics
Sarur Chaudhary (Cambridge) - Globalizing Highways: Domestic Roads And Foreign Inputs
Clara Arroyo (CEMFI) - Commodity Booms, Markup Dispersion, And Misallocation
Aleksei Oskolkov (Chicago) - Heterogeneous Impact Of The Global Financial Cycle
Marcos Sora (Chicago) - Labor Reallocation During Booms: The Role Of Duration Uncertainty
Toshiaki Komatsu (Chicago) - Job Ladder Over Production Networks
Jingtao Zheng (Chicago/Chicago Booth) - Dividend Flows And The Foreign Exchange Rate
Zhiyu Fu (Chicago/Chicago Booth) - Capital Flows And The Making Of Risky Currencies
Mitchell Vaughn (Columbia) - Sudden Stops With Heterogeneous Agents
Sung-Ju Wu (Duke) - Foreign Ownership And Firm Response To Foreign Demand Shocks
Nika Khinashvili (Graduate Institute) - Macroprudential Foreign Exchange Interventions
Veronica De Falco (Harvard) - Investor Heterogeneity And Large-Scale Asset Purchases
Jeongwon Son (Johns Hopkins) - Revisiting The Trilemma: Sectoral Trade-Offs And Exchange Rate Management In Emerging Markets
Mingzuo Sun (Johns Hopkins) - Two-Way Capital Flow Management In Emerging Markets
Tsvetelina Nenova (LBS) - Global or Regional Safe Assets: Evidence from Bond Substitution Patterns
Alvaro Silva (Maryland) - Inflation In Disaggregated Small Open Economies
Seungeun (Ellen) Lee (Maryland) - Dollar Invoicing And The Global Financial Cycle
Andrea Foschi (Michigan) - Safety Switches: The Macroeconomic Consequences Of Time-Varying Asset Safety
Luis M. Espinoza Bardales (Michigan) - Contracting Frictions, Geography, And Multinational Firms: Evidence From Mexico
Abhitesh Ranjan (Minnesota) - Effect Of Reserve Accumulation On Employment
Entian Zhang (Minnesota) - Financial Frictions And Sourcing Decisions
Ricardo Alves Monteiro (Minnesota) - Sovereign Debt Auctions With Strategic Interactions
Bumsoo Kim (MIT) - Currency Pegs, Trade Imbalances And Unemployment: A Reevaluation Of The China Shock
Sun Yong Kim (Northwestern Kellogg) - Fiscal Cyclicality, Wealth Transfers And The Us Safety Puzzle
Diego Bohorquez (Pompeu Fabra) - The United States As The International Lender Of Last Resort
Haonan Zhou (Princeton) - The Fickle And The Stable: Global Financial Cycle Transmission Via Heterogeneous Investors
Sifan Xue (Princeton) - Trade Wars With Fdi Diversion
Juan Camilo Medellin (PSE) - Firm Size, Liquidity And Optimal Heterogeneous Hedging
Chang Liu (Rochester) - Foreign Currency Borrowings And Trade Exposure In Emerging Markets
Chengyuan He (Rochester) - Inventories, Production Networks, And International Business Cycles
Chunya Bu (Rochester) - Firm Default Risks And Exchange Rate Puzzles
Jin Lau (Rutgers) - News Shocks And Sudden Stops
Seungjin Baek (UC Davis) - Transition To A Green Economy: Policy Competition And Cooperation
Akira Ishide (UCLA) - Allocative Efficiency During A Sudden Stop
Chang He (UCLA) - Inelastic Financial Markets And Foreign Exchange Interventions
Luis Cabezas (UCLA) - Large Devaluations, Heterogeneous Consumption Adjustments, And Macroeconomic Implications
Seungyub Han (UCLA) - Housing Rent, Inelastic Housing Supply And International Business Cycles
Yanru Lee (UNC) - The Global Latent Risk Factor in Corporate Debt Distress: Frailty and Spillover Effects
Komla Avoumatsodo (University of Quebec at Montreal) - Financial Development, Technology Adoption, And Sectoral Productivity Convergence
2022-2023
Han Maylin Sun (American) - Dollar Funding Shortage Crises - A New Database and New Evidence
Marco Errico (BC) - Decomposing the (In)Sensitivity of CPI to Exchange Rates
Jacob Weber (Berkeley) - Congestion In Onboarding Workers And Sticky R&D
Jianlin Wang (Berkeley) - Multinationals And Uncertainty: The Role Of Internal Capital Markets
Cosimo Petracchi (Brown) - Exchange-Rate Regimes And Exporter-Importers
Chenyue Lei (BU) - Financial Frictions, Tax Shield, And The Macroeconomy
Ritt Keerati (Columbia) - The Unintended Consequences Of Financial Sanctions
Bineet Mishra (Cornell) - Decomposing Covered Interest Rate Parity Deviations For An Emerging Market Economy
Shujie Wu (CUHK) - Financial Spillovers of Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from China
Cristian Cuevas (Georgetown) - Safe Assets in Emerging Market Economies
Matthew Ferranti (Harvard) - Hedging Sanctions Risk: Cryptocurrency In Central Bank Reserves
Liu Mendoza (Houston) - Deposit Dollarization In Low-Inflation Economies And The Distributional Effects Of Nominal Depreciations
Julien Acalin (Johns Hopkins) - The Global Financial Cycle Meets Global Imbalances
Pablo Hernando-Kaminsky (Johns Hopkins) - Crowding Out and Banking Crises
Brian Cevallos Fujiy (Michigan) - Spatial Knowledge Spillovers In R&D And Aggregate Productivity: Evidence From The Reunification Of Germany
Florian Trouvain (Michigan) - Technology Adoption, Innovation, and Inequality in a Global World
Leticia Juarez (Michigan) - Buyer Market Power and Exchange Rate Pass-through
Alexandre Reggi Pecora (Minnesota) - Does Fintech Lending Lower Financing Costs? Evidence From An Emerging Market
Juyoung Yang (Minnesota) - Credit Ratings In Sovereign Bond Markets
Mateus Santos (Minnesota) - Austerity In Sovereign Default Models
João Monteiro (Northwestern) - The Impact Of A Higher Cost Of Credit On Exporters: Evidence From A Change In Banking Regulation
Santiago Camara (Northwestern) - Borrowing Constraints In Emerging Markets
Shangshang Li (Oxford) - What Hinders Structural Reforms
Ashley Wumian Zhao (Purdue) - Optimal Monetary Policy And The Welfare Cost Of Inflation Of A Currency Union
Soo Kyung Woo (Rochester) - Real Exchange Rate And Net Trade Dynamics: Financial And Trade Shocks
Xiaomei Sui (Rochester) - Uneven Firm Growth In A Globalized World
Min Kim (Rutgers) - Conducting Unconventional Monetary Policy with Foreign Exchange Reserves
Livio Maya (Stanford) - A Fiscal Decomposition Of Unexpected Inflation: Cross-Country Estimates And Theory
Tammaro Terracciano (Swiss Finance Institute) - FX Hedging, Currency Choice, and Dollar Dominance
Li Yu (TSE) - Monetary Policy And Global Bank Lending: A Reversal Interest Rate Approach
Federico Guzman (UBC) - Forward Guidance Credibility And Fiscal Policy
Alvaro Boitier (UCLA) - Purchase Obligations And Hedging
Denis Mokanov (UCLA) - Deviations from Rational Expectations and the Uncovered Interest Rate Parity Puzzle
Julian Batista (UCLA) - Agent Heterogeneity And The Exchange Rate
Sihwan Yang (UCLA) - Dominant Currency Paradigm With Input-Output Linkages
Felipe Mazin (UPenn) - Population Aging In Advanced And Emerging Economies: Capital Flows And Fiscal Spillovers
Xiaoliang Wang (UPenn) - Exchange Rates, Us Monetary Policy And The Global Portfolio Flows
Fiorella Pizzolon (Virginia) - Optimal Time-Consistent Monetary Policy And Currency Denomination Of Sovereign Debt
Hasan Toprak (Virginia) - The Composition Of Capital Inflows And Prudential Monetary Policy In Sudden-Stop Economies
Yan Chen (Virginia) - Amplification And Policy Responses With Income-Based Versus Asset-Based Borrowing Constraints
Gani Nurmukhametov (Washington) - Remittances, Human Capital, And Economic Growth In Developing Economies
2021-2022
Jingye Wang (BU) - Currency Risk and Capital Accumulation
Emile Marin (Cambridge) - The Hegemon's Dilemma
Lidia Smitkova (Cambridge) - Competitiveness, ‘Superstar’ Firms and Capital Flows: The North-South Divide in Pre-Crisis Europe
Ahmed Ahmed (Chicago) - Foreign Institutional Investors, U.S. Monetary Policy, and Reaching for Yield
Paul Bouscasse (Columbia) - Canst Thou Beggar Thy Neighbour? Evidence from the 1930s
Zhou Fan (Cornell) - Credit Cycles and Asset Price Bubbles
Antonio Coppola (Harvard) - In Safe Hands: The Financial and Real Impact of Investor Composition Over the Credit Cycle
Gabriel Levin Konigsberg (Harvard) - Risk-management and Narrow Framing
Hillary Stein (Harvard) - Got Milk? The Effect of Export Price Shocks on Exchange Rates
Marcus Biermann (Louvain) - Tracing the International Transmission of a Crisis Through Multinational Firms
Maria Aristizabal-Ramirez (Michigan) - Dynamics of Corporate Credit Markets, Employment, and Wages: Evidence from Colombia
Stelios Fourakis (Minnesota) - Sovereign Debt and Government Reputation
Xiaohan Zhang (Minnesota) - Multinational production, intangible capital, and structural change in the U.S.
Fatih Kansoy (Nottingham) - FOMC Minutes: As a Source of Monetary Policy Surprise
Beata Gafka (Oxford) - Mind the (trade) gap! Stock market implications of barriers to trade
Tatjana Schulze (Oxford) - Corporate Credit Risk and Capital Flows in Emerging Market Economies
Jaime Leyva (PSE) - Sudden Stops: Consequences, Asymmetries and Policy Implications
Tianchen Song (Rochester) - Multinationals Expansion, Shareholding Choice, and Local Know-How
Ciaran Rogers (Stanford) - Quantitative Easing and Local Banking Systems in the Euro Area
Nayib Rene Zamarripa (UC Irvine) - Parameter instabilities and monetary policy in a Small Open Economy: Evidence from an estimated model for the UK
Ljubica Georgievska (UCLA Anderson) - Currency Crashes and Sovereign Defaults: Two Risks But Only One Insurance Needed
Tristan Jourde (Université Paris Dauphine) - The Long-Term Effect of Globalization on International Stock Return Comovements
Hanjo (Terry) Kim (Vanderbilt) - Entrepreneurs, Sudden Stops, and Inequality
Thu Tran (Vanderbilt) - Financial constraints and trade intermediation
Rachel Lee (Virginia) - How Does a Budget Rule Affect Sovereign Default Incentives and Welfare?
Kyongjun Kwak (Washington) - Optimal Tax Rates on Gross Capital Flows
Yida Li (Washington) - Covered Interest Rate Parity Deviation and Global Banks Dollar Funding
Annie Soyean Lee (Wisconsin) - Why Do Emerging Economies Borrow in Foreign Currency? The Role of Exchange Rate Risk
Joao Paulo Valente (Yale) - The Role of Beliefs in Asset Prices: Evidence from Exchange Rates
John Finlay (Yale) - Exporters, Credit Constraints, and Misallocation