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6th Washington Area International Finance Symposium (WAIFS)

October 11, 2024
Washington, DC

The 6th Washington Area International Finance Symposium (WAIFS) is a research conference that highlights academic work from researchers at leading finance institutions in the Washington DC area. The goal of WAIFS is to bring together researchers working in international finance and macroeconomics. Researchers, practitioners, and students from policy institutions and universities present and discuss new ideas in the field. WAIFS welcomes recently arrived, junior economists so they become integrated into the broader community. The event takes place annually at one of the partner institutions.

The conference will be held at the World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP Headquarters, located at 1818 H Street, NW, Washington DC in room MC 13-121. To participate, please register in advance so that you can enter the building through the World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP visitors¡¯ entrance on 18th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.

Agenda

9:00 ¨C 9:30am                                                  

Breakfast and Welcome

9:30 ¨C 10:15am

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

10:15 ¨C 11:00am 

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

  • Discussant: Steven Pennings (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP)

11:00 ¨C 11:15am 

Coffee Break

11:15am ¨C 12:30pm

Joint Session

  • Jonathan Hoddenbagh (Johns Hopkins University) ¡°A New Test of Fiscal Dominance and Central ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP Independence¡±
  • Ken Teoh (International Monetary Fund) ¡°Macroeconomic Attention and Expected Returns¡±
  • Ramona Dagostino (University of Virginia) ¡°Partisan Cities¡±

12:30 ¨C 1:30pm

Lunch Break

1:30 ¨C 2:15pm

Mathieu Pedemonte (Inter-American Development ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) ¡°The Causal Effect of Expected Depreciations¡±

  • Discussant: Camila Casas (International Monetary Fund)

2:15 ¨C 3:00pm

Pablo Hernando-Kaminsky (International Finance Corporation, World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP Group) ¡°Crowding Out and ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPPing Crises¡±

  • Discussant: Michele Dathan (Federal Reserve Board)

3:00 ¨C 3:15pm

Coffee Break

3:15 ¨C 4:00pm 

Chang He (University of Virginia) ¡°Inelastic Financial Markets and Foreign Exchange Interventions¡±

  • Discussant: Alessandro Rebucci (Johns Hopkins University)

  
4:00 ¨C 4:45pm

Yu An (Johns Hopkins University) ¡°Intermediary Elasticity and Risk-Bearing Capacity¡±

  • Discussant: Davide Tomio (University of Virginia)

4:45 ¨C 5:30pm  

Sharon Ross (Federal Reserve Board) ¡°Quantities and Covered-Interest Parity¡±

  • Discussant: Valentina Bruno (American University)


2024 Conference Organizers:

Sergio Schmukler (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP)
and Tomas Williams (George Washington University)

Partners:

  • American University
  • Federal Reserve System
  • George Washington University Institute for International Economic Policy
  • Inter-American Development ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP
  • International Monetary Fund
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • University of Maryland
  • University of Virginia
  • World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP