BdF-FFJ Workshop on Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy - virtual conference

Session 1: International Policy Issues
Chair Urszula Szczerbowicz (Banque de France)

International spillover effects of unconventional monetary policies of major central banks
Tomoo Inoue (Seikei Univ.) and Tatsuyoshi Okimoto (EHESS-FFJ and Australian National Univ.)

Firm turnover in the export market and the case for fixed exchange rate regime
Masashige Hamano (Waseda Univ.) and Francesco Pappada (Paris School of Economics)

How Policies are perceived in the market for the Japanese government bonds: Evidence from volatility smiles
Etsuro Shioji (Hitotsubashi Univ.)

Session 2: Macroeconomic Issues
Chair Caroline Jardet (Banque de France)

Patents that match your standards: Insights from linking patents and standards
Antonin Bergeaud (Banque de France) and Julia Schmidt (Banque de France)

Wealth concentration and speculative bubbles
Tomohiro Hirano (Royal Holloway, Univ. of London), Jose Scheinkman (Columbia University), and Makoto Nirei (Tokyo University).

Business cycle dynamics after the Great Recession: An extended Markov-Switching dynamic factor model
Catherine Doz (Univ. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Laurent Ferrara (SKEMA Business School), and Pierre-Alain Pionnier (OECD)

Concluding remarks by Sophie Haincourt (Banque de France)

Tatsuyoshi Okimoto (EHESS-FFJ and Australian National Univ.)