Conference on International Macro-Finance
April 24-25, 2008
HQ1, Meeting Halls A & B, IMF Headquaters
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
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The International Monetary Fund and the World Economy and Finance Research Programme of the UK Economic and Social Research Council held a conference on international macro-finance at the IMF headquarters in Washington, DC, on April 24-25, 2008. The conference provided a forum to present recent theoretical and empirical research narrowing the gap between "open-economy macro" and "finance" approaches to international financial issues.
Note on the Papers: Papers presented at the conference are under consideration for publication in a special issue of the Journal of International Economics (JIE). The papers are presented below as prepared for the conference.
Conference Organizers:
Michael Devereux (University of British Columbia), Akito Matsumoto (IMF), Alessandro Rebucci (IMF), and Alan Sutherland (University of St Andrews).
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
| 8:45 a.m. | Opening Remarks – Alex Gibbs, U.K. Executive Director, IMF |
| Session I: Exchange Rate Behavior and Reserve Accumulation (Session Chairperson: Jonathan Ostry, Deputy Director, RES) |
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| 9:00 a.m. | News Shocks, Exchange Rates, and Equity Prices (PDF File Size: 363kb) Pietro Cova (Bank of Italy), Akito Matsumoto (IMF), Massimiliano Pisani (ECB), and Alessandro Rebucci (IMF) Discussant: Martin Bodenstein (FRB) |
| Optimized Reserve Holdings and Country Portfolios (PDF File Size: 245kb) Luca Dedola (ECB) and Roland Straub (ECB) Discussant: Olivier Jeanne (IMF) |
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| 10:30 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| Session II: The U.S. External Return Puzzle (Session Chairperson: Anoop Singh, Director, WHD) |
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| 10:45 a.m. | Why Do Foreigners Invest in the United States? (PDF File Size: 388kb) Kristin Forbes (MIT) Discussant: Steven Kamin (FRB) |
| The Decomposition of the US External Returns Differential (PDF File Size: 355kb) Stephanie Curcuru (FRB), Tomas Dvorak (Union College), and Frank Warnock (Virginia) Discussant: Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti (IMF) |
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| 12:30 p.m. | Luncheon – IMF Gallery (by invitation only) Keynote Speech (based on the following paper): "Can Peso Problems Explain Carry Trade Returns?" Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University) |
| Session III: Micro View of the FX Market (Session Chairperson: Tim Lane, Senior Advisor, RES) |
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| 2:15 p.m. | Exchange Rate Forecasting, Order Flow and Macroeconomic Information (PDF File Size: 452kb) Dafinn Rime (Norges Bank), Lucio Sarno (Warwick), and Elvira Sojli (Warwick) Discussant: Francis Diebold (University of Pennsylvania) |
| Private Information and the Monetary Model of Exchange Rates: Evidence from a Novel Data Set (PDF File Size: 300kb) Menzie D. Chinn (Wisconsin) and Michael J. Moore (Queen's University Belfast) Discussant: Martin Evans (Georgetown) |
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| 3:45p.m. | Coffee Break |
| Session IV: Portfolio View of the Current Account (Session Chairperson: Stijn Claessens, Assistant Director, RES) |
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| 4:00 p.m. | Patterns of International Capital Raisings (PDF File Size: 352kb) Juan Carlos Gozzi (Brown), Ross Levine (Brown), and Sergio Schmukler (World Bank) Discussant: Chris Meissner (Cambridge) |
| The Long and Short of It: Determinants of Foreign Currency Exposure in External Balance Sheets (PDF File Size: 370kb) Philip Lane (Trinity College Dublin) and Jay Shambaugh (Dartmouth) Discussant: Laura Alfaro (Harvard) |
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| Session V: External Adjustment (Session Chairperson: TBA) |
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| 9:00 a.m. | |
| Valuation Effects and the Dynamics of Net External Assets (PDF File Size: 497kb) Michael Devereux (British Columbia) and Alan Sutherland (University of St. Andrews) Discussant: Jaewoo Lee (IMF) |
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| An Asset-Pricing View of External Adjustment (PDF File Size: 505kb) Anna Pavlova (London Business School) and Roberto Rigobon (MIT) Discussant: Michael Kumhof (IMF) |
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| 10:30 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| Session VI: International Portfolios (Session Chairperson: Kalpana Kochher, Senior Advisor, APD) |
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| 10:45 a.m. | Financial Globalization, Home Equity Bias and International Risk-Sharing (PDF File Size: 294kb) Gianluca Benigno (NY FED and LSE) and H. Kucuk-Tuger (LSE) (Discussant: Viktoria Hnatkovska (British Columbia) |
| International Portfolios, Capital Accumulation and Foreign Assets Dynamics (PDF File Size: 394kb) Nicolas Coeurdacier (London Business School) and Robert Kollmann (ECARES) Discussant: Kosuke Aoki (London School of Economics) |
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| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| Session VII: Balance Sheet View of International Portfolio (Session Chairperson: Tam Bayoumi, Assistant Director, WHD) |
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| 1:30 p.m. | A new Perspective on "The New Rule" of the Current Account (PDF File Size: 391kb) Cedric Tille (The Graduate Institute, Geneva) and Eric van Wincoop (Virginia) Discussant: Kai Guo (Harvard) |
| Stylized Facts for a Portfolio Theory of the Current Account Aart Kraay (World Bank) and Jaume Ventura (CREI) Discussant: Cristina Arellano (Minnesota) |
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| 3:00 p.m. | Coffee Break |
| Panel Session: The Financial Turmoil and Global Imbalances | |
| 3:15 p.m. | Moderator: Simon Johnson (Economic Counsellor and Director of Research, IMF) Panelists: Michael Dooley (University of California, Santa Cruz), Takatoshi Ito (University of Tokyo), and Vincent Reinhart (AEI) |