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13th Advances in Macro Finance
Tepper-LAEF Conference

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
October 4, 2024

Tentative Schedule:

10 am - 12 pm SESSION 1  
   

The Impact of Social Insurance on Household Debt
Gideon Bornstein (U Penn)
Sasha Indarte (U Penn)
Discussant: Carter Braxton (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Credit Card Borrowing in Heterogeneous-Agent Models:
Reconciling Theory and Data
Sean Chanwook Lee (Harvard)
Peter Maxted (UC Berkeley)
Discussant: Kyle Dempsey (OSU)

12 - 1 pm

LUNCH

1 - 3 pm

SESSION 2

Granular Treasury Demand with Arbitrageurs
Kristy A.E. Jansen (USC)
Wenhao Li (USC)
Lukas Schmid (USC)
Discussant: Moritz Lenel (Princeton)

Nominal Rigidity and the Inflation Risk Premium:
Identification from the Cross Section of Equity Returns
Hengjie Ai (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Xinxin Hu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Xuhui Pan (University of Oklahoma)
Discussant: Francois Gourio (Chicago Fed)

3 - 3:30 pm

BREAK

3:30 - 5:30 pm

SESSION 3

Technology Driven Market Concentration through Idea Allocation
Yueyuan Ma (UC Santa Barbara)
Shaoshuang Yang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Discussant: Jeremy Pearce (NY Fed)

Fiscal Dominance
Fernando M. Martin (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
Discussant: Christopher Phelan (University of Minnesota)

7 pm

Dinner at AVP, Bakery Square

Organizers:

Lars Kuehn, Finn Kydland, Simon Mayer, Liyan Shi, and Ariel Zetlin-Jones