Tuesday, August 4

•  Organizers Meeting: 11am – noon. Karp Hall 101.
•  Registration: 11 am-1 pm: Karp Hall Lobby.
•  Bag Lunch. Noon – 1 pm. Karp Hall 105.

Greetings:  Karp Hall 105, 12:45 pm.  Lewis Davis (Union College)

Session 1: International. Karp Hall 105, 1-3 pm. Chair: Nicole Simpson (Colgate University)  

• Brad Graham and Caleb Stroup, “Does Anti-bribery Enforcement Deter Foreign Investment?”
  • Presenter: Caleb Stroup (Davidson College)
  • Discussant: Keefer (Carlton College)

• Nune Hovhannisyan, “Technology Gap and International Knowledge Transfer: New Evidence from the Operations of Multinational Corporations”
  • Presenter: Nune Hovhannisyan (Loyola University Maryland)
  • Discussant: Gina Pieters (Trinity University)

• Judit Temesvary, Steven Ongena and Ann Owen, “A Global Lending Channel Unplugged? Does U.S. Monetary Policy Affect Cross‐border and Affiliate Lending by Global U.S. Banks?”
  • Presenter: Judit Temesvary (Hamilton College)
  • Discussant: Stephen Nicar (Franklin and Marshall College)

• Joseph P. Joyce, “External Balance Sheets as Crisis Buffers”
  • Presenter: Joseph P. Joyce (Wellesley College)
  • Discussant: Tomas Dvorak (Union College)

•  Break: 3:00-3:30

Session 2:  Banking.  Karp 105, 3:30-5:30 pm.  Chair:  Tomas Dvorak (Union College).

• Christoffer Koch, Gary Richardson, and Patrick Van Horn, “Commercial Bank Leverage and Regulatory Regimes: Comparative Evidence from the Great Depression and Great Recession”
  • Presenter: Patrick Van Horn (Southwestern University)
  • Discussant: Matthew Jaremski (Colgate University)

• Matthew N. Luzzetti and Seth Neumuller, “The Impact of Credit Scoring on Credit Spreads and Consumption over the Business Cycle”
  • Presenter: Seth Neumuller (Wellesley College)
  • Discussant: Ayse Sapci (Colgate University)

• Javier M. Pereira, “Deregulation, Underwriter Reputation and Clustering of Poor Certification in the US High Yield Corporate Bond Market”
  • Presenter: Javier Pereira (Hamilton College)
  • Discussant: Caleb Stroup (Davidson College)

• Leah Jager, Katherine A. Smith, Jacob Stevens-Haas, “The Impact of Islamic Finance on Financial Crisis and the Volatility of the Business Cycle”
  • Presenter: Katherine Smith (US Naval Academy)
  • Discussant: Richard Higgins (Colgate University)

•  Reception: 5:30-6:30. Mrs. Perkins Garden

•  Dinner: 6:30-7:30 pm. Hale House

• Panel Discussion: 7:30-8:30. Hale House
  • Topic:  Publishing with Undergrads
  • Moderator:  Tomas Dvorak (Union College)
  • Panel:  Lewis Davis (Union College), Masami Imai (Wesleyan University), Ann Owen (Hamilton College), and Caleb Stroup (Davidson College)

Wednesday, August 5

• Continental Breakfast: 8-9 am. Karp Hall Lobby.

Session 3: Information and Expectations.  Karp 105, 9-11 am.  Chair:  Julie Smith (Lafayette University)

• Julio Garin and Robert Lester, “On the Desirability of Nominal GDP Targeting”
  • Presenter: Robert Lester (Colby College)
  • Discussant: Bill Craighead (Wesleyan University)

• Laurence Ball and Sandeep Mazumder, “A Phillips Curve with Anchored Expectations and Short-Term Unemployment ”
  • Presenter: Sandeep Mazumder (Wake Forest University)
  • Discussant: Roisin O’Sullivan (Smith College)

• Carola Conces Binder (Haverford College) “Consumer Inflation Uncertainty and the Macroeconomy: Evidence from a New Micro-Level Measure”
  • Presenter: Carola Binder (Haverford College)
  • Discussant: Puspa Amri (Ithica College)

• Peter Ferderer and Adam Freedman, “Herding and the Wisdom of the Crowd: An Analysis of the Blue Chip Forecasts”
  • Presenter: Peter Ferderer (Macalester College)
  • Discussant: Marc Tomljanovich (Drew Univerisity)

• Break:  11-11:30 am.

Breakout Sessions: Pedagogy. 11:30-12:30.  Karp Hall.

• Teaching with the Popular Press: 
  • Leaders: Julie Smith, smithjk@lafayette.edu (Lafayette College) and Marc Tomljanovich, mtomljan@drew.edu (Drew University)
• Teaching with Data
  • Leader: Jason Jones, jones@furman.edu (Furman University)
• Advising Undergraduate Research: 
  • Leader: Caleb Stroup castroup@davidson.edu (Davidson College)
  • Contributor: Lewis Davis (Union College): Grading undergraduate writing
• Teaching the Institutions of Macro:  
  • Leader: Roisin O’Sullivan, rosulliv@smith.edu (Smith College)
• Reproducibility – how not to make a spreadsheet error:
  • Leader: Tomas Dvorak, dvorakt@union.edu (Union College)

• Lunch: 12:30-1:30 pm.  Ms. Perkins Garden.

Session 4: Theory.  Karp 105, 1:30-3:30 pm. Chair:  TBA.

• Feixue Gong and Gregory Phelan, “Debt Collateralization and Maximal Leverage ”
  • Presenter: Gregory Phelan (Williams College)
  • Discussant: PJ Glandon (Kenyon College)

• Ahmed S. Rahman, “Rise of the Machines Redux”
  • Presenter: Ahmed Rahman (US Naval Academy)
  • Discussant: Lewis Davis (Union College)

• Stephie Fried, Kevin Novan, and William B. Peterman, “Should Robin Hood Wear Green? Understanding the Distributional and Efficiency Impacts of a Carbon Tax”
  • Presenter: Stephie Fried (Carlton College)
  • Discussant: Masami Imai (Wesleyan University)

• Paul Shea, “Wealth vs. Income Taxes in a Model of Credit Constraints and InequalityTaxes”
  • Presenter: Paul Shea (Bates College)
  • Discussant: Ricky Fernholz (Claremont McKenna College)

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