Macroeconomic and Policy Challenges Following Financial Meltdowns
April 3, 2009
Date: Friday, April 3, 2009
Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Venue: IMF Atrium HQ1-RD-710, Washington DC
The conference will discuss how we can prevent acute and prolonged recessions after financial meltdowns and facilitate quick recovery. It will draw lessons from research on economic activities after financial meltdowns, based on both theoretical and empirical case studies. Those would include the current crisis, the Great Depression, Japan's lost decade, Asian crisis, and Latin American crisis. Specifically, leading academic, central bank, and IMF researchers will present and discuss key theoretical models and applied empirical studies, which may include technical but rigorous analysis. The conference will conclude with a panel discussion (4:00 pm -) on policies for recovery. The conference is intended for policymakers and academics. To attend the conference, please contact Helen Hwang (hhwang@imf.org) by Wednesday, April 1, 2009.
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PROGRAM
| April 3, 2009 | |
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| Session I: Booms and Busts in Asset Prices and Macroeconomic Consequences | |
| Chair: Nicolas Eyzaguirre (Director of the Western Hemisphere Department, IMF) | |
| 9:00 a.m. | Winners and Losers in Housing Markets |
| Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (Princeton University), Alexander Michaelides (London School of Economics), and Kalin Nikolov (Bank of England and London School of Economics) | |
| Discussant: Adriano Rampini (Duke University) | |
| Learning about Risk and Return: A Simple Model of Bubbles and Crashes | |
| George Evans (University of Oregon) and William Branch (University of California Irvine) | |
| Discussant: Noah Williams (University of Wisconsin) | |
| 10:30 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| Session II: Lessons from The Great Depression | |
| Chair: Leslie J. Lipschitz (Director of the IMF Institute, IMF) | |
| 10:45 a.m. | Was the New Deal Contractionary? |
| Gauti Eggertsson (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) | |
| Discussant: Michael Kumhof (IMF) | |
| The International Great Depression: Deflation, Productivity, and Stock Market | |
| Harold L. Cole (University of Pennsylvania), Lee Ohanian (University of California Los Angeles), and Ron Leung (University of Rochester) | |
| Discussant: Romain Ranciere (IMF) | |
| 12:30 p.m. | Luncheon – Private Dining Room (by invitation only) |
| Session III: Policies Following Financial Meltdowns | |
| Chair: Christopher M. Towe (Acting Director of the Monetary and Capital Market Department, IMF) | |
| 2:15 p.m. | Bursting Bubbles: Consequences and Cures |
| Narayana Kocherlakota (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) | |
| Discussant: Arvind Krishnamurthy (Northwestern University) | |
| Will the U.S. Bank Recapitalization Succeed? Lessons from Japan | |
| Anil Kashyap (University of Chicago) and Takeo Hoshi (University of California San Diego) | |
| Discussant: Giovanni Dell’Ariccia (IMF) | |
| 3:45 p.m. | Coffee Break |
| 4:00 pm | Panel Session: Policies for Recovery |
| Chair: Olivier Blanchard (Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department, IMF) | |
| Panelists: Guillermo Calvo (Columbia University), Takatoshi Ito (University of Tokyo), Hyun-Song Shin (Princeton University) | |