12th Annual Conference
International macroeconomics, money & banking

 
 
20
May
2025
Tuesday
Macroeconomy and Financial Stability
Chair: Yu-chin CHEN (University of Washington and ABFER)

Location: Tanglin III & IV

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
The Financial (In)Stability Real Interest Rate, r**
Ozge AKINCI (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Gianluca BENIGNO* (University of Lausanne)
Marco DEL NEGRO (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Albert QUERALTO (Federal Reserve Board)

Discussant:
James MORLEY (University of Sydney)
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Corporate Debt, Boom-Bust Cycles, and Financial Crises
Victoria IVASHINA (Harvard University)
Sebnem KALEMLI-OZCAN (Brown University)
Luc LAEVEN (European Central Bank)
Karsten MUELLER* (National University of Singapore)

Discussant:
Chun-Che CHI (Academia Sinica)
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Geopolitical Risk and Global Banking
Friederike NIEPMANN (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)
Leslie Sheng SHEN* (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)

Discussant:
Alessandro REBUCCI (Johns Hopkins University and ABFER)


22
May
2025
Thursday
Money and Banking in the Regional Economies
Chair: Dora XIA (Bank for International Settlements)

Location: Tanglin III & IV

9:00 am – 10:00 am
China’s Global Ownership
Jennie BAI (Georgetown University and ABFER)
Yaojun KE* (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Luc LAEVEN (European Central Bank)
Hong RU (Nanyang Technological University)

Discussant:
Guiying Laura WU (Nanyang Technological University)
10:00 am – 10:30 am
10:30 am – 11:30 am
Beyond the Aggregate: Heterogeneous Effects of Monetary Policy on Credit Allocation
Sui-Jade HO* (Asia School of Business)
Ozer KARAGEDIKLI (Asia School of Business)
Samantha ONG (Bank Negara Malaysia)

Discussant:
Edison YU (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Inflation Expectation and Cryptocurrency Investment
Lin William CONG (Cornell University and ABFER)
Pulak GHOSH (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and ABFER)
Jiasun LI* (George Mason University)
Qihong RUAN (Cornell University)

Discussant:
Gloria Yang YU (Singapore Management University)


* Presenter. Program is subjected to change. Updated 7 Mar 2025.

Session Format 

Three papers will be presented during each session. Each paper lasts for one hour, including 25 minutes for presentation, 20 minutes for discussion and 15 minutes for Q&A. There will be a 30 minutes break after the first paper.
 

Contact Information

Program Director Conference Organizer

Antonio FATAS (INSEAD and ABFER)
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Ippei FUJIWARA (Australian National University, Keio University and ABFER)
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Yu-chin CHEN (University of Washington and ABFER)
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Dora XIA (Bank for International Settlements)
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