Past Carnegie-Rochester-NYU Conferences

Taking place every November, each conference is organized around a particular theme or topic with papers prepared by leading scholars with expertise in the area. 

Participants are united by their interest in the issues discussed and by their belief that analysis, evidence, and informed discussion have lasting effects on the public and its institutions.

Day One Conference Sessions

Session I

• Business Cycle Asymmetry and Input-Output Structure: The Role of Firm-to-Firm Networks
  Authors: Jorge Miranda-Pinto (Central Bank of Chile), Alvaro Silva (University of Maryland), Eric R. Young (University of Virginia)
  Discussant: Saki Bigio, UCLA

 Session II

• Propagation of Shocks in An Input-Output Economy: Evidence From Disaggregated Prices 
  Authors: Shaowen Luo (Virginia Tech), Daniel Villar (Federal Reserve Board of Governors)
  Discussant: Hassan Afrouzi, Columbia University

Session III

• Stress Relief?: Financial Structures and Resilience to the Covid Shock
  Authors: Kristin Forbes (MIT Sloan, NBER, and CEPR), Christian Friedrich (Bank of Canada and CEPR), Dennis Reinhardt (Bank of England)
  Discussant: Bernard Herskovic, UCLA

Session IV

• Information Frictions and Real Rigidities in Production Networks
  Authors: Thomas Pellet (Northwestern University), Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi (Northwestern University and CEPR)
  Discussant: Luigi Iovino, Bocconi University

Day Two Conference Sessions

Session I

• Coordinated Firm-Level Work Processes and Macroeconomic Resilience
  Authors: Moritz Kuhn (University of Bonn), Jinfeng Luo (University of Pennsylvania), Iourii Manovskii (University of Pennsylvania), Xincheng Qiu (University of Pennsylvania)
  Discussant: Benjamin Pugsley, University of Notre Dame

Session II

• Trade and Diffusion of Embodied Technology: An Empirical Analysis
  Authors: Stephen Ayerst (International Monetary Fund), Faisal Ibrahim (University of Toronto), Gaelan MacKenzie (Bank of Canada), Swapnika Rachapalli (UBC Sauder)
  Discussant: Simone Lenzu, NYU Stern