PRESENTATIONS & DISCUSSIONS

World Risk and Insurance Economics Conference, July 2020

        Capital Constraints and Risk Shifting: An Instrumental Approach

        Discussion of Busto et al.'s "Are Financial Constrained Firms more Sensitive to Shocks?"

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Federal Reserve System Conference on Financial Institutions, Regulation, and Markets, November 2019

        Discussion of Foley-Fisher et al.'s "Who Limits Arbitrage?"

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FRB San Francisco conference on Advances in Fixed Income and Macro-Finance Research, October 2019

        Duration Effects in Macro-Finance Models of the Term Structure

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CAMF Asset Pricing Workshop, June 2019

Duration Effects in Macro-Finance Models of the Term Structure

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American Economic Association, January 2019

Discussion of Acre, Gimeno, and Mayordomo's "Making Room for the Needy"

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Federal Reserve Day-Ahead Conference on Financial Markets and Institutions, January 2019

Securities Financing and Asset Markets: New Evidence

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ECB Monetary Policy Conference, October 2018

Duration Effects in Macro-Finance Models of the Term Structure

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Banque de France Workshop on Monetary Policy and Asset Prices: Lessons from the Crisis, May 2018

Expectation and Duration at the Effective Lower Bound

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American Finance Association, January 2018

Expectation and Duration at the Effective Lower Bound

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Bank of Canada conference on Advances in Fixed Income and Macro-Finance Research, August 2017

Expectation and Duration at the Effective Lower Bound

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Riksbank International Research Conference on the Future of Forward Guidance, May 2017

What Does Anticipated Monetary Policy Do?

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Chicago Financial Institutions Conference, March 2016

Discussion of Acharya, Pierret, and Steffen's "Lender of Last Resort vs. Buyer of Last Resort"

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American Economic Association, January 2016

What Does Anticipated Monetary Policy Do?

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Federal Reserve Board, May 2015

Policy Expectations, Term Premia, and Macroeconomic Performance

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University of New South Wales, January 2015

Credit Risk, Liquidity, and Lies

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Western Economic Association International, January 2015

Discussion of Kulish et al.’s “Estimating DSGE Models with Forward Guidance”

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Federal Reserve Day-Ahead Conference on Financial Markets and Institutions, January 2015

A Portfolio-Balance Approach to the Nominal Term Structure

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Bank of England/ECB Conference on Understanding the Yield Curve, September 2014

A Portfolio-Balance Approach to the Nominal Term Structure

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Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, November 2012

A Portfolio-Balance Approach to the Nominal Term Structure

 

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, September 2012

Federal Reserve Lending During the Crisis

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Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis QE Conference, June 2011

Flow and Stock Effects of Large-Scale Treasury Purchases

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Federal Reserve System Macro Conference, November 2009

Discussion of van den Heuvel’s “The Bank Capital Channel of Monetary Policy”

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Bundesbank conference on Measuring and Forecasting Financial Stability, January 2009

Distress in the Financial Sector and Economic Activity

Discussion of Gapen’s “Estimating the Implicit Government Guarantee to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac”