Thursday, September 26th, 2024 | Universidad Andrés Bello
9:00-9:15 Welcoming Remarks: Miguel Vargas (Dean, Faculty of Business and Economics, UNAB)
Chair: Francisca Sara Zaror (Federal Reserve Board)
9:15-10:15 “The Micro and Macro Productivity of Nations” | Stephen Ayerst (IMF), Diego Restuccia (University of Toronto), and Duc Nguyen
Discussant: Francisco Buera (Washington University in St. Louis) )
10:15-11.15 “Global Innovation Spillovers and Productivity: Evidence from 100 Years of World Patent Data” | Kristina Manysheva (Columbia Business School), Enrico Berkes and Martí Mestieri
Discussant: Gabriela Cugat (IMF)
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 “Business Uncertainty in Developing and Emerging Economies” | Jose Maria Barrero (ITAM), Edgar Avalos, Elwyn Davies, Leo Iacovone and Jesica Torres
Discussant: Alejandro Vicondoa (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)
12:30-2:00 Lunch (by invitation only)
Chair: Benjamin Villena Roldan (UNAB)
2:00-3:00 “Superstars or Supervillains? Large Firms in the South Korean Growth Miracle” | Younghun Shim (IMF), Jaedo Choi, Andrei Levchenko and Dimitrije Ruzic
Discussant: João Ayres (IADB)
3:00-4:00 "“On the Investment Network and Development” | Julieta Caunedo (Cornell University) and Lucía Casal
Discussant: David Kohn (Banco Central de Chile)
4:00-4:30 Coffee Break
4:30-5:30 Keynote lecture: “Big Push in Distorted Economies” | Hugo Hopenhayn (UCLA), Francisco J. Buera, Yongseok Shin and Nicholas Trachter
Friday, September 27th, 2024 | Banco Central de Chile
Chair: Álvaro Aguirre (Banco Central de Chile)
9:30-10:30 Keynote Lecture: "Golosov and Lucas: 20 Years Later" | Fernando E. Alvarez (University of Chicago)
10:30-11.30 “Monetary Policy Operations: Theory, Evidence, and Tools for Quantitative Analysis” | Gastón Navarro (Federal Reserve Board) and Ricardo Lagos
Discussant: Russell Wong (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
11:30-11:45 Coffee Break
Chair: Manuel Macera (UTDT)
11:45-12:45 “Central Bank Swap Lines as Bilateral Sovereign Debt” | Francisco Roldan (IMF) and César Sosa-Padilla
Discussant: Vivian Yue (Emory University)
12:45-2:15 Lunch (by invitation only)
Chair: Sofia Bauducco (Banco Central de Chile)
2:15-3:15 “Central Banks as Dollar Lenders of Last Resort: Implications for Reserves Holdings and Regulation” | Mitali Das (IMF), Gita Gopinath, Helene Hall, Taehoon Kim and Jeremy Stein
Discussant: Claudio Raddatz (Universidad de Chile)
Chair: TBC
3:15-4:15 Keynote lecture: "Macroeconomics after Lucas" | Thomas Sargent (New York University)
4:15-4:45 Coffee Break
5:45-6:15 Policy Round Table: Fiscal Policy and Global Financial Stability
Chair: Luis Felipe Céspedes(Banco Central de Chile)
V.V. Chari (University of Minnesota)
Juan Pablo Nicolini (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis & UTDT)
Mitali Das (IMF)
6:15-6:30 Closing Remarks: Rosanna Costa (President, Banco Central de Chile)
