XXIV Meeting of the Central Bank Researchers Network

Agenda

 

Wednesday, October 30th, 2019

08:30 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 09:30 Opening Ceremony (Hemiciclo I Room)
Dr. Oscar Arce, General Director of Economics and Statistics, Banco de España | Remarks
Dr. Santiago García-Verdú, Adviser to the General Manager, CEMLA
09:30 - 10:30 Keynote Lecture (Hemiciclo I Room). A Dynamic Model for Macroprudential and Monetary Policy Analysis, Professor Dimitrios Tsomocos, Professor of Financial Economics and Fellow Saïd Business School and St. Edmund Hall University of Oxford | Presentation
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
  Hemiciclo I Room Cibeles Entresuelo Room
  (1) MACROECONOMICS I (2) MONETARY POLICY I
  Moderator: Daniel Parra (Banco de la República)
Discussants will have 5 minutes
Moderator: Adolfo Rodríguez-Vargas (Banco Central de Costa Rica)
11:00 - 11:40 Financial Frictions and the Wealth Distribution
Presentation | Paper
Authors: Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Samuel Hurtado, and Galo Nuño (Banco de España)
Discussant: Santiago Bazdresch (Banco de México) | Presentation
Multivariate Filter Estimation of Potential Output for the United States: An Extension with Labor Market Hysteresis
Presentation | Paper
Authors: Ali Alichi (IMF), Hayk Avetisyan, Douglas Laxton, Shalva Mkhatrishvili, Armen Nurbekyan, Lusine Torosyan, and Hou Wang
Discussant: Gergely Gánics (Banco de España) | Presentation
11:40 - 12:20 Measuring the Macroeconomic Impact of Capital Requirements
Presentation | Paper
Author: Jorge Pozo (Banco Central de Reserva del Perú)
Discussant: Jorge Ponce (Banco Central del Uruguay)
The Effect of Central Bank Foreign Exchange Interventions on Exchange Rate Volatility: Evidence from Costa Rica
Presentation | Paper
Authors: Mauro Pisu and Adolfo Rodríguez-Vargas (Banco Central de Costa Rica)
Discussant: Carlos E. Castillo-Maldonado (Banco de Guatemala) | Presentation
12:20 - 13:00 Nonlinear Relationship between the Weather Phenomenon El Niño and Colombian Food Prices
Presentation | Paper
Authors: Davinson Abril, Luis Fernando Melo, and Daniel Parra (Banco de la República)
Discussant: Francisco Alberto Ramírez de León (Banco Central de la República Dominicana) | Presentation
Foreign Exchange Intervention Effectiveness in Guatemala under Inflation Targeting
Presentation | Paper
Authors: Carlos E. Castillo-Maldonado (Banco de Guatemala) and Edson R. Ortiz-Cardona
Discussant: Adolfo Rodríguez-Vargas (Banco Central de Costa Rica) | Presentation
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch (Marqués de Cubas Hall)
  Hemiciclo I Room Cibeles Entresuelo Room
  (3) MACROECONOMICS II (4) MONETARY POLICY II
  Moderator: Galo Nuño (Banco de España)
Discussants will have 5 minutes
Moderator: Fernando Borraz (Banco Central del Uruguay)
14:30 - 15:10 Time-Varying Effects of Commodities Prices in the Bolivian Economy
Presentation | Paper
Author: Mauricio Mora (Banco Central de Bolivia)
Discussant: Santiago Bazdresch (Banco de México) | Presentation
On the Interest Channel and the Global Financial Cycle for Emerging Market Economies
Presentation | Paper
Authors: Manuel Ramos-Francia, Santiago García-Verdú (CEMLA and Banco de México), and Manuel Sánchez-Martínez
Discussant: Carlos Cantú (BIS)
15:10 - 15:50 Labor Demand Dynamics: The Costa Rican Case
Presentation | Paper
Authors: Alonso Alfaro, Santiago Campos, y Valerie Lankester (Banco Central de Costa Rica)
Discussant: Mario Izquierdo (Banco de España) | Presentation
Long Run Price or Variety Convergence?
Presentation | Paper
Authors: Fernando Borraz (Banco Central del Uruguay) and Leandro Zipitría
Discussant: Jacopo Timini (Banco de España) | Presentation
15:50 - 16:30 A Framework for Debt-Maturity Management
Presentation | Paper
Authors: Saki Bigio, Galo Nuño (Banco de España), and Juan Passadore
Discussant: Santiago Garcia-Verdú (CEMLA and Banco de México) | Presentation
Monetary Policy and Sectoral Composition
Presentation | Paper
Authors: Cesar Blanco (Banco Central del Paraguay) and Sebastián Diz
Discussant: Fernando Borraz (Banco Central del Uruguay) | Presentation
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
  Hemiciclo I Room Cibeles Entresuelo Room
  (5) INFLATION EXPECTATIONS (6) FISCAL POLICY
  Moderator: Adolfo Rodríguez-Vargas (Banco Central de Costa Rica)
Discussants will have 5 minutes
Moderator: Ali Alichi (IMF)
17:00 - 17:40 Forecasting Costa Rican Inflation with Machine Learning Methods
Presentation | Paper
Author: Adolfo Rodríguez-Vargas (Banco Central de Costa Rica)
Discussant: Laura Zacheo (Banco Central del Uruguay) | Presentation
Fiscal Regimes and Exchange Rates: A High-Frequency Identification
Presentation | Paper
Authors: Enrique Alberola, Carlos Cantú (BIS), and Paolo Cavallino
Discussant: Santiago García-Verdú (CEMLA and Banco de México) | Presentation
17:40 - 18:20 Inattention, Disagreement and Internal (In) Consistency of Inflation Forecasts
Presentation | Paper
Authors: Fernando Borraz and Laura Zacheo (Banco Central del Uruguay)
Discussant: Adolfo Rodríguez-Vargas (Banco Central de Costa Rica) | Presentation
Dynamic Effects of the Costa Rican Fiscal Policy: The Case of a Small and Open Economy
Presentation | Paper
Authors: Valerie Lankester (Banco Central de Costa Rica) and Kerry Loaiza
Discussant: Ali Alichi (IMF) | Presentation

 

Thursday, October 31st, 2019

8:00 - 9:00 Keynote Lecture (Hemiciclo I Room). Household Balance Sheet Channels of Monetary Policy: A Back of the Envelope Calculation for the Euro Area, Professor Gianluca Violante
Professor of Economics, Princeton University | Presentation
9:00 - 9:45 Invited Lecture (Hemiciclo I Room). Quantification of systemic risk from overlapping portfolios in the financial system, Serafín Martínez Jaramillo
CEMLA and Banco de México | Presentation
9:45 - 10:15 Coffee Break
  Hemiciclo I Room Cibeles Entresuelo Room
  (7) FINANCIAL ECONOMICS (8) JOINT RESEARCH I:
Fiscal Sustainability and Proposals for Institutional Change
  Moderator: Bernardus van Doornik (Banco Central do Brasil)
Discussants will have 5 minutes
Moderator: Ignacio Lozano-Espitia (Banco de la República)
10:15 - 10:55 Financial Asset Correlations
Presentation | Paper
Authors: Santiago Bazdresch (Banco de México) and Alejandra Lelo de Larrea
Discussant: Irene Roibas (Banco de España) | Presentation
Fiscal Consolidation under High Debt in Latin America
Presentation | Paper
Authors: Luis Guirola (Banco de España) and Ivan Kataryniuk
Discussant: Valerie Lankester Campos (Banco Central de Costa Rica) | Presentation
10:55 - 11:35 A Market-Based Term Structure of Expected Inflation
Presentation | Paper
Authors: Manuel Ramos-Francia, Santiago García-Verdú (CEMLA and Banco de México), and Manuel Sánchez-Martínez
Discussant: Ricardo Gimeno (Banco de España) | Presentation
Fiscal Sustainability Analysis and Reaction Function: The Costa Rican Case
Presentation | Paper
Authors: Valerie Lankester Campos (Banco Central de Costa Rica), Kerry Loaiza Marín, and Carlos Monge Badilla
Discussant: Ivan Kataryniuk (Banco de España) | Presentation
11:35 - 12:15 Commercial and Financial Debt Network in Uruguay
Presentation | Paper
Authors: Andrea Barón, Victoria Landaberry, Rodrigo Lluberas, and Jorge Ponce (Banco Central del Uruguay)
Discussant: Bernardus van Doornik (Banco Central do Brasil) | Presentation
Debt Limit and Fiscal Space: Analysis for Colombia and Other Emerging Markets (Colombia)
Presentation | Paper
Authors: Ignacio Lozano-Espitia (Banco de la República) and J. Manuel Julio-Román
Discussant: Ali Alichi (IMF) | Presentation
12:15 - 14:15 Long Lunch (Marqués de Cubas Hall)
  Hemiciclo I Room Cibeles Entresuelo Room
  (9) BANKING (10) JOINT RESEARCH II:
Fiscal Sustainability and Proposals for Institutional change
  Moderator: Miguel Mello (Banco Central del Uruguay)
Discussants will have 5 minutes
Moderator: Francisco Ramírez (Banco Central de la República Dominicana)
14:15 - 14:55 A Loan-level Analysis of Bank Lending in Mexico
Presentation | Paper
Authors: Carlos Cantú (BIS), Roberto Lobato, Calixto López, and Fabrizio López-Gallo
Discussant: Jorge Ponce (Banco Central del Uruguay)
Fiscal Sustainability and Proposal for Institutional Change: The Case for Jamaica
Presentation | Paper
Author: Prudence Serju-Thomas (Bank of Jamaica)
Discussant: Ignacio Lozano-Espitia (Banco de la República) | Presentation
14:55 - 15:35 Credit Shock Propagation in Firm Networks: Evidence from Government Bank Credit Expansions
Presentation | Paper
Authors: Gustavo Cortes, Bernardus van Doornik (Banco Central do Brasil), and Thiago Silva
Discussant: Serafín Martínez-Jaramillo (CEMLA and Banco de México) | Presentation

Analysis of the Sustainability of Public Finances in Mexico
Presentation | Paper
Authors: Oscar Budar, Juan Sherwell (Banco de México), Fernando Espino, and Jorge Maya
Discussant: Ivan Kataryniuk (Banco de España) | Presentation

15:35 - 16:15 Technology, Structure and Competition in the Uruguayan Banking Industry
Presentation | Paper
Authors: Miguel Mello (Banco Central del Uruguay) and Jorge Ponce
Discussant: Isabel Argimón (Banco de España) | Presentation
Fiscal Rules as Alternatives for the Design of Fiscal Policy: The Case for Central America and the Dominican Republic
Presentation | Paper
Authors: Francisco Ramírez (Banco Central de la República Dominicana) and Henry Rosario
Discussant: Luis Guirola (Banco de España)
16:15 - 16:35 Coffee Break
  Hemiciclo I Room Cibeles Entresuelo Room
  (11) MISCELLANEOUS (12) TRADE
  Moderator: Fernando Borraz (Banco Central del Uruguay)
Discussants will have 5 minutes
Moderator: Alonso Alfaro (Banco Central de Costa Rica)
16:35 - 17:15

Cluster and Network Analysis for Business Models in the Mexican Banking System
Presentation | Paper
Authors: Luis Escobar Farfan, Serafín Martínez Jaramillo (CEMLA and Banco de México), Manuel Ramos-Francia and Santiago García-Verdú
Discussant: Bernardus van Doornik (Banco Central do Brasil) | Presentation

Free Trade Agreements and Latin American Trade (Creation and Diversion) and Welfare
Presentation | Paper
Author: Jacopo Timini (Banco de España)
Discussant: Alonso Alfaro (Banco Central de Costa Rica) | Presentation

17:15 - 17:55

Gentrifying Neighborhoods and Local Retail Prices
Presentation | Paper
Authors: Fernando Borraz (Banco Central del Uruguay), Felipe Carozzi, Nicolás González-Pampillón, and Leandro Zipitría
Discussant: Susana Parraga (Banco de España) | Presentation

The Effects of Joining Multinational Supply Chains: New Evidence from Firm-to-Firm Linkages
Presentation | Paper
Authors: Alonso Alfaro (Banco Central de Costa Rica), Isabela Manelici, and Jose Vásquez
Discussant: Jacopo Timini (Banco de España) | Presentation
17:55 - 18:35 Effects of Inflation on Poverty in Mexico
Presentation | Paper
Author: Carlo Alcaraz (Banco de México)
Discussant: Pedro del Río (Banco de España) | Presentation
 
18:35 - 19:05

Closing Remarks at Hemiciclo I Room
Dr. Santiago García-Verdú, Adviser to the General Manager, CEMLA | Remarks
M.C. Pedro del Río, Head of the International Economics Division, Banco de España