Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong

*9:00am – 9:45am: Registration & Breakfast * 9:45am – 10:00am: Opening Remarks: Dean Rich Lyons, Dean Carla Hesse and Clausen Director Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas * 10:00am – 11:15am: US Monetary Policy Developments and Their Global Impact: Moderator: Yuriy Gorodnichenko (Clausen Center, UC Berkeley). Contributors: Annette Vissing-Jorgensen (Clausen Center, UC Berkeley) 'Stock Returns over the FOMC Cycle'; John Williams (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, President) 'Measuring the Natural Rate of Interest Redux'; Michael Melvin (BlackRock) * 11:15am – 11:30am: Break * 11:30am – 12:30pm: Egon & Joan von Kaschnitz Lecture: Benoît Coeuré (Executive Board of the European Central Bank) 'Three Open Issues in International Macroeconomics' * 12:45pm – 2:00pm: Lunch * 2:00pm – 3:15pm : The (Un)Changing Nature of Financial Crises and Their Aftermath: Moderator: Linda Tesar (University of Michigan). Contributors: Christina Romer (Clausen Center, UC Berkeley) David Romer (Clausen Center, UC Berkeley) 'New Evidence on the Impact of Financial Crises in Advanced Countries'; Maurice Obstfeld (IMF & Clausen Center, UC Berkeley); Joachim Fels (PIMCO) * 3:15pm – 3:45pm: Break * 3:45pm – 5:00pm : The Evolution of the International Financial System: Moderator: Andrew Rose (Clausen Center, UC Berkeley). Contributors: Barry Eichengreen (Clausen Center, UC Berkeley) 'Cables, Sharks and Servers: On the Geography of the Foreign Exchange Market'; Hélène Rey (London Business School) 'World Asset Markets and the Global Financial Market'; Woon Gyu Choi (Deputy Governor, Bank of Korea)

Venue: Banatao Auditorium, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley

• http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/vissing/cycle_paper_cieslak_morse_vissingjorgensen.pdf
• http://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/files/wp2015-16.pdf
• http://eml.berkeley.edu/~cromer/RomerandRomerFinancialCrises.pdf
• http://clausen.berkeley.edu/assets/clausen_open_pages/1/Eichengreen__Lafarguette___Mehl_(November_2015).pdf
• http://www.helenerey.eu/AjaxRequestHandler.ashx?Function=GetSecuredDOC&DOCUrl=App_Data/helenerey_eu/Working-Papers_en-GB/_Documents_2012-13/72802451958_67186463733_MirandaRey_October_2015.pdf