Dirk Niepelt and Bob King organized the annual Journal of Monetary-Swiss National Bank Conference in Gerzensee. I went there to listen to the siw speakers of the day and a half conference. Lot of good economics.
Below is the program. Here is the site of the conference. (note that I took the photo on the left with my telephone on a saturday trip that we made in the mountains)
October 19, 2012
Session I, Chair: Dirk Niepelt, Study Center Gerzensee
Internal Debt Crises and Sovereign Defaults
Authors: Cristina Arellano and Narayana Kocherlakota, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Discussants: Aleksander Berentsen, University of Basel and Cédric Tille, Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies
Coffee Break
Analyzing Fiscal Sustainability
Authors: Huixin Bi, Bank of Canada and Eric Leeper, Indiana University
Discussant: Craig Burnside, Duke University
Session II, Chair: Robert King, Boston University
The Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008 and the Aggregate Demand for Consumption
Authors: Christian Broda, University of Chicago and Jonathan A. Parker, Northwestern University
Discussants: Greg Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania and Jordi Galí, CREI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Coffee Break
The Social Value of Bank Capital and the Redistributive Effects of Financial Deregulation
Author: Anton Korinek, University of Maryland
Discussants: Robert Bichsel, Swiss National Bank and Jean-Charles Rochet, University Zurich
Dinner
Dinner address by Fritz Zurbruegg, Member of the Governing Board, Swiss National Bank
October 20, 2012
Session III, Chair: Marcel Savioz, Swiss National Bank
A Reconciliation of SVAR and Narrative Estimates of Tax Multipliers
Authors: Karel Mertens, Cornell University and Morten Ravn, University College London
Discussants: Elmar Mertens, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and
Matthew Shapiro, University of Michigan
Debt Maturity without Commitment
Author: Dirk Niepelt, Study Center Gerzensee
Discussant: Robert G. King, Boston University
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