Event

2nd Annual International Roles of the U.S. Dollar Conference

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND AGENDA
May 18, 2023
Overview

The U.S. dollar plays a preeminent role in the global economy. The status of the U.S. dollar has bearing on the functioning of financial markets and the effectiveness of policy instruments. This conference aims to garner the insights of researchers, policymakers, and market experts on the evolving roles of the U.S. dollar, the consequences of these roles for the Federal Reserve’s mandate, and future prospects for these roles.

The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York are jointly organizing the second conference on the International Roles of the U.S. Dollar. The conference will feature a keynote address by Darrell Duffie, panel discussions on the themes of the conference, and paper presentations with discussants.

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Audience

This event is by invitation-only.

Media

This event is open to the media. All remarks will be on-the-record. For media inquiries, please contact Suzanne Elio.

Event Details

Location
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Auditorium, 12th Floor
33 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10045

Contact

Please address any logistical questions to ny.researchconference@ny.frb.org.


Organizing Committee
Ricardo Correa, Federal Reserve Board
Patrick Douglass, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Linda S. Goldberg, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Robert Lerman, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Juan M. Londono, Federal Reserve Board

Scientific Committee
Wenxin Du, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Leonardo Elias, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Matt Higgins, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Anna Lipinska, Federal Reserve Board
Friederike Niepmann, Federal Reserve Board
Fabiola Ravazzolo, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Alexandra Tabova, Federal Reserve Board
Judit Temesvary, Federal Reserve Board
Tony Zhang, Federal Reserve Board

Agenda
Thursday, May 18, 2023
8:30am Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:50am Welcoming Remarks
Michelle Neal, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
SESSION 1: GLOBAL FUNDING FLOWS
Session Chair: Ricardo Correa, Federal Reserve Board
9:00am Global Bank Lending and Exchange Rates
Jonas Becker, Goethe University Frankfurt
Maik Schmeling, Goethe University Frankfurt
Andreas Schrimpf, Bank for International Settlements

Discussant: Friederike Niepmann, Federal Reserve Board  Presentation
9:50am Nonbank Lenders as Global Shock Absorbers: Evidence from US Monetary Policy Spillovers
David Elliott, Bank of England
Ralf R. Meisenzahl, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Jose-Luis Peydro, Imperial College London, ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra-CREI-Barcelona GSE, and CEPR

Discussant: Juliana Salomao, University of Minnesota  Presentation
10:40am Coffee Break

11:00am Panel 1: Global Dollar Funding Markets
Moderator: Fabiola Ravazzolo, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Panelists:
Fabio Bassi, JP Morgan
Victoria Ivashina, Harvard Business School
Rebecca Patterson
Beth Anne Wilson, Federal Reserve Board
12:30pm Lunch

SESSION 2: INVOICING CURRENCY CHOICE
Session Chair: Linda Goldberg, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
1:30pm Liquidity, Debt Denomination, and Currency Denomination
Antonio Coppola, Stanford University
Arvind Krishnamurthy, Stanford University
Chenzi Xu, Stanford University

Discussant: Felipe Saffie, University of Virginia  Presentation
2:20pm Invoice Currency Concentration and Currency Risk Premia
Julien Bengui, Bank of Canada
Nick Sander, Bank of Canada

Discussant: Falk Bräuning, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Presentation
3:10pm Refreshment Break

3:30pm Keynote Address
Global Reliance on the Dollar: Challenges and US Policy Responses
Darrell Duffie, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Moderator: Linda Goldberg, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
5:00pm Reception


Friday, May 19
8:30am Registration and Continental Breakfast
SESSION 3: HEDGING AND THE DOLLAR
Session Chair: Juan M. Londono, Federal Reserve Board
9:00am Uncovering CIP Deviations in Emerging Markets: Distinctions, Determinants, and Disconnect
Eugenio Cerutti, International Monetary Fund
Haonan Zhou, Princeton University
Discussant: Hyeyoon Jung, Federal Reserve Bank of New York  Presentation
9:50am Dollar Asset Holding and Hedging Around the Globe
Wenxin Du, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Amy Wang Huber, The Wharton School

Discussant: Leonardo Elias, Federal Reserve Bank of New York  Presentation
10:40am Coffee Break

11:00am Narrow Framing and Risk Management
Vicente García Averell, Bank of Mexico
Gabriel Levin-Konigsberg, Harvard University
Calixto López Castañon, Bank of Mexico
Hillary Stein, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Discussant: Laura Alfaro, Harvard Business School  Presentation
12:00pm Lunch
Updates on the Dollar’s Status
Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley

1:30pm Intervening Against the Fed
Naoki Yago, University of Cambridge UK
Alexander Rodnyansky, University of Cambridge
Yannick Timmer, Federal Reserve Board

Discussant: Catherine Schenck, Oxford University  Presentation 
2:20pm Panel 2: Foreign Exchange Interventions and Foreign Exchange Reserves
Moderator: Alain Chaboud, Federal Reserve Board
Panelists:
Kathryn M. Dominguez, University of Michigan
Gerardo Garcia, Bank of Mexico
Kerstin Kehrle, Swiss National Bank
Jens Nordvig, Exante Data
Adjourn approximately 4:00pm

Speakers

Laura Alfaro
Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School


Fabio Bassi
Managing Director
J.P. Morgan Securities Ltd


Falk Bräuning
Senior Economist and Policy Advisor
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston


Eugenio Cerutti
Advisor and Senior Reviewer
International Monetary Fund


Alain Chaboud
Senior Economic Project Manager
Federal Reserve Board


Antonio Coppola
Assistant Professor
Stanford Graduate School of Business (incoming)


Kathryn M. Dominguez
Professor of Public Policy and Economics
University of Michigan


Darrell Duffie
Adams Distinguished Professor of Management and Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business, and professor by courtesy, Department of Economics
Stanford University


Leonardo Elias
Financial Research Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of New York


David Elliott
Senior Economist
Bank of England


Gerardo Garcia
Director of International Operations
Bank of Mexico


Linda Goldberg
Financial Research Advisor
Federal Reserve Bank of New York


Victoria Ivashina
Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration and Head of the Finance Unit
Harvard Business School


Hyeyoon Jung
Financial Research Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of New York


Kerstin Kehrle
Head of Implementation Analysis, Money Market and Foreign Exchange
Swiss National Bank


Juan M. Londono
Senior Economic Project Manager
Federal Reserve Board of Governors


Friederike Niepmann
Chief
Federal Reserve Board of Governors


Jens Nordvig
Founder & CEO
Exante Data Inc


Fabiola Ravazzolo
Policy and Market Analysis Advisor
Federal Reserve Bank of New York


Felipe Saffie
Assistant Professor
University of Virginia, Darden School of Business


Juliana Salomao
Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota


Nicholas Sander
Senior Economist
Senior Economist


Catherine R. Schenk
Professor
University of Oxford


Andreas Schrimpf
Head of Financial Markets
Bank for International Settlements


Hillary Stein
Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston


Amy Wang Huber
Assistant Professor of Finance
The Wharton School


Beth Anne Wilson
Director, International Finance
Federal Reserve Board


Naoki Yago
PhD Student
University of Cambridge


 

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