It was an actual pleasure to get to attend the convention (agenda right here). Extremely informative and stimulating — generally I believe I do know lots a couple of topic, however conferences like this disabuse me of that notion.
I add hyperlinks to ungated variations of the papers introduced right this moment, under:
Welcoming Remarks
Chair: Beth Anne Wilson (Federal Reserve Board)
Christopher J. Waller, Governor, Federal Reserve Board
Session 1: World Buyers
Session 2: Geoeconomics and the U.S. greenback
Presenter: Linda Goldberg (Federal Reserve Financial institution of New York)
Discussant: Menzie Chinn (College of Wisconsin Madison)
Panel: World Cost Methods and Worldwide Implications
Keynote Handle
I’d seen one paper introduced earlier than (“…International Retrenchment”), however every part else was a revelation. Jansen’s paper documented how bond holdings — each American and Euro space — responded to greenback appreciation. “Dealer risk…” introduced a mannequin of fx provide, demand and intermediaries, with endogenously decided danger limits. Backside line is that desk limits amplify depreciations in response to demand shocks. Stijn Claessens’ keynote supplied a tour d’horizon of the greenback as a global forex, fascinated with how sure dimensions within the Kenen typology of cash will be considered market mediated (retailer of worth and medium of change) whereas others should not (unit of account). Top quality discussions of th e papers throughout (significantly useful for these of us who as an example don’t know the literature in microeconomic fashions of seller markets).
I can’t do an exhaustive overview, however one can get an concept from the papers. A recap of the assembly two years in the past, right here.
Apart: a terrific facet good thing about being at a convention in-person is that you just get to speak to the discussants and different members about what they’re engaged on. A lot tougher to do by way of zoom. Some ideas in tomorrow’s submit.
