6th Washington Area International Finance Symposium (WAIFS)

9:00 – 9:30am                                                  

Breakfast and Welcome

9:30 – 10:15am

Keynote Speaker: Anusha Chari (White House Council of Economic Advisers)

10:15 – 11:00am 

William Witheridge (University of Maryland, College Park) “Monetary Policy and Fiscal-led Inflation in Emerging Markets”

• Discussant: Steven Pennings (World Bank)

11:00 – 11:15am 

Coffee Break

11:15am – 12:30pm

Joint Session

• Jonathan Hoddenbagh (Johns Hopkins University) “A New Test of Fiscal Dominance and Central Bank Independence”
• Ken Teoh (International Monetary Fund) “Macroeconomic Attention and Expected Returns”
• Ramona Dagostino (University of Virginia) “Partisan Cities”

12:30 – 1:30pm

Lunch Break

1:30 – 2:15pm

Mathieu Pedemonte (Inter-American Development Bank) “The Causal Effect of Expected Depreciations”

• Discussant: Camila Casas (International Monetary Fund)

2:15 – 3:00pm

Pablo Kaminsky (International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group) “Crowding Out and Banking Crises”

• Discussant: Michele Dathan (Federal Reserve Board)

3:00 – 3:15pm

Coffee Break

3:15 – 4:00pm 

Chang He (University of Virginia) “Inelastic Financial Markets and Foreign Exchange Interventions”

• Discussant: Alessandro Rebucci (Johns Hopkins University)

  
4:00 – 4:45pm

Yu An (Johns Hopkins University) “Intermediary Elasticity and Risk-Bearing Capacity”

• Discussant: Davide Tomio (University of Virginia)

4:45 – 5:30pm  

Sharon Ross (Federal Reserve Board) “Quantities and Covered-Interest Parity”

• Discussant: Valentina Bruno (American University)