Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Federal Reserve Bank of New York

"Monetary Policy and Heterogeneity"

 

23 May 2019 (Thursday) - 24 May 2019 (Friday)

Harbour Room, 56/F, Two International Finance Centre, 8 Finance Street, Central

Programme


Thursday, May 23, 2019
8:30 a.m – 9:00 a.m. Registration and Welcome Coffee
9:00 a.m. – 9:10 a.m. Welcoming Remarks
Norman TL Chan, Chief Executive, Hong Kong Monetary Authority
9:10 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Remarks
James Bullard, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
10:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Coffee Break
10:30 a.m.–12:00 n.n. Session 1
Chair: James Yetman, Bank for International Settlements

Title: Monetary Policy in Incomplete Market Models: Theory and Evidence
Marcus Hagedorn, University of Oslo
Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania
Kurt Mitman, Institute for International Economic Studies *

Discussant: Pengfei Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Title: Quantitative Easing
Wei Cui, University College London *
Vincent Sterk, University College London

Discussant: Gianluca Violante, Princeton University
12:00 n.n. – 2:00 p.m. Luncheon and Speech (By invitation)
Sayuri Shirai, Professor of Keio University, Former Bank of Japan Board Member
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Session 2
Chair: David Cook, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Title: Computing the Distribution: Adaptive Finite Volume Methods for Economic Models with Heterogeneous Agents
SeHyoun Ahn, Norges Bank *

Discussant: Keshav Dogra, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Title: Employment and the Collateral Channel of Monetary Policy
Saleem Bahaj, Bank of England *
Angus Foulis, Bank of England
Gabor Pinter, Bank of England
Paolo Surico, London Business School and CEPR

Discussant: Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Coffee Break
4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Session 3
Chair: Ilhyock Shim, Bank for International Settlements

Title: A Theory of Housing Demand Shocks
Zheng Liu, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Pengfei Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology *
Tao Zha, Emory University and Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Discussant: Yulei Luo, The University of Hong Kong

Title: Mortgage Prepayment and Path-Dependent Effects of Monetary Policy
David Berger, Northwestern University
Konstantin Milbradt, Northwestern University *
Fabrice Tourre, Copenhagen Business School
Joseph Vavra, University of Chicago

Discussant: Fatih Karahan, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
5:30 p.m. – 6:10 p.m. Keynote Speech
Title: The Job Ladder: Inflation vs Reallocation
Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University
6:10 p.m. Conference Dinner (By invitation)

Friday, May 24, 2019
8:30 a.m – 9:00 a.m. Registration and Welcome Coffee
9:00 a.m. – 9:40 a.m. Keynote Speech
Gianluca Violante, Princeton University
9:40 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Session 4: Heterogeneous Agents Models at the New York Fed
Chair: Cho-hoi Hui, Hong Kong Monetary Authority

Title: Estimating HANK Models
Sushant Acharya, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Marco Del Negro, Federal Reserve Bank of New York *
Keshav Dogra, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Title: Monetary Policy, Heterogeneity and the Housing Channel
Aaron Hedlund, University of Missouri
Fatih Karahan, Federal Reserve Bank of New York *
Kurt Mitman, Institute for International Economic Studies
Serdar Ozkan, University of Toronto
11:00 a.m.–11:20 a.m. Coffee Break
11:20 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Session 5
Chair: Frank Packer, Bank for International Settlements

Title: The first twenty years of the European Central Bank: Monetary Policy
Philipp Hartmann, European Central Bank *
Frank Smets, European Central Bank

Discussant: Paolo Pesenti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Luncheon (By invitation)
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Panel discussion
Chair: Lillian Cheung, Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research

Panelists:
Beverly Hirtle, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Yiping Huang, Beijing University
Andrew Filardo, Bank for international Settlements
Hiroaki Miyamoto, International Monetary Fund
4:00 p.m. Adjourn

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* Presenter