SaMMF Monetary Economics Conference

September 9-10, 2021

SaMMF is pleased to organize with Randall Wright (U Wisconsin) and Yu Zhu (Bank of Canada) the first SaMMF Monetary Economics Conference.

Monetary economics has progressed a lot recently using models and methods from search theory. This meeting will ask several people to present the results of their recent work, including some new or young PhD’s, and a few veterans. Topics will include monetary theory, monetary policy, central bank digital currency and empirics or experiments in monetary economics.

Program

Thursday, September 9

11:00 am – 11:30 am EST             Endogenous Liquidity and Capital Reallocation

  • Wei Cui, UCL
  • Randall Wright, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Yu Zhu, Bank of Canada

11:30 am – 12:00 pm EST             Permissioned Distributed Ledgers and the Governance of Money

  • Raphael Auer, BIS
  • Cyril Monnet, Gerzensee and University of Bern
  • Hyun Song Shin, BIS

12:00 pm – 12:10 pm EST             Break

12:10 pm – 12:40 pm EST             The Limits of onetary Economics: On Money as a Constraint on Market Power

  • Ricardo Lagos, New York University
  • Shengxing Zhang, London School of Economics

12:40 pm – 1:10 pm EST             Is Money Essential? An Experimental Approach

  • Janet Hua Jiang, Bank of Canada
  • Peter Norman, University of Carolina
  • Daniela Puzzello, Indiana University
  • Bruno Sultanum, FRB Richmond
  • Randall Wright, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1:10 pm – 1:20 pm EST             Break

1:20 pm – 2:00 pm EST             Keynote Talk by Harald Uhlig, University of Chicago

Friday, September 10

11:00 am – 11:30 am EST             Digital Currency and Privacy

  •  Kee-Youn Kang, Yonsei University

11:30 am – 12:00 pm EST             Money Credit and Financial Intermediation

  • Duhyeong Kim, Western University

12:00 pm – 12:10 pm EST             Break

12:10 pm – 12:40 pm EST             Bargaining Under Liquidity Constraints: Nash vs. Kalai in the Laboratory

  • John Duffy, UC Irvine
  • Lucie Lebeau, FRB Dallas
  • Daniela Puzzello, Indiana University

12:40 pm – 1:10 pm EST             Panics and Prices

  • Yu Awaya, Rochester University
  • Vijay Krishna, Penn State

1:10 pm – 1:20 pm EST             Break

1:20 pm – 2:00 pm EST             Keynote Talk by Todd Keister, Rutgers University