Conference Agenda

Session

Beliefs and Macroeconomic Risk Transmission

Time:

Friday, 13/Mar/2026:

1:30pm - 3:15pm

Session Chair: Altan Pazarbaşı, University of Iowa

Location: Pacific 2

Presentations

Learning and Subjective Beliefs about Good and Bad Inflation Ranges

Mohammad Ghaderi¹, Sang Byung Seo², Ivan Shaliastovich²

¹University of Kansas; ²University of Wisconsin-Madison

Discussant: Ram Yamarthy (Federal Reserve Board of Governors)

Safe Haven Status of the U.S. Dollar, Dollar Index Options, and Quantitative Implications for Dynamic Currency Models

Gurdip Bakshi¹, John Crosby², Xiaohui Gao¹, Yuan Hu¹

¹Temple University; ²Old Dominion University

Discussant: Andrea Vedolin (Boston University)

The Effects of Monetary Policy on Macroeconomic Expectations: High-Frequency Evidence from Traded Event Contracts

Eric Swanson¹, Renxuan Wang², Yanbin Wu³

¹University of California, Irvine; ²China Europe International Business School; ³University of Florida

Discussant: Miguel Acosta (University of Wisconsin-Madison)