About this conference
Under the auspices of the Consultative Council for the Americas (CCA), the Americas Office organises Annual Research Conferences, workshops and conferences for the research networks.
Virtual Conference, 16-18 November 2021.
Day 1 - 16 November
09:00 - 09:05
Alexandre Tombini, Chief Representative of the BIS for the Americas and Césaire Meh, Chair of the BIS CCA Scientific Committee
09:05 - 11:30
Chair: Césaire Meh (BIS CCA Scientific Committee and Bank of Canada)
| COVID-19 and Local Market Power in Credit Markets | Thiago Christiano Silva, Sergio Rubens de Souza and Solange Maria Guerra (Central Bank of Brazil) | Presentation (later published as BIS Working Papers, no 1017) Discussant: Vasso Ioannidou (Bayes Business School, University of London) | Presentation |
| Anatomy of Firms' Margins of Adjustment: Evidence from the COVID Pandemic | Elías Albagli, Andrés Fernández, Juan Guerra and Federico Huneeus (Central Bank of Chile) | Presentation Discussant: Ryan Banerjee (Bank for International Settlements) | Presentation |
| Nowcasting during the Pandemic: Lessons from Argentina | Emilio Blanco, Fiorella Dogliolo and Lorena Garegnani (Central Bank of Argentina) | Presentation Discussant: Esther Ruiz-Ortega (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) | Presentation |
Day 2 - 17 November
09:00 - 11:30
Chair: Ana Aguilar (Bank for International Settlements)
| COVID-19 and Implications for Automation | Alex Chernoff and Casey Warman (Bank of Canada) | Presentation Discussant: Ayşegül Şahin (University of Texas at Austin) | Presentation |
| Is the pandemic Fast-Tracking Automation in Developing Countries? Preliminary Evidence from Colombia | Leonardo Bonilla, Luz Flórez, Didier Hermida, Francisco Lasso, Leonardo Morales, Juan Ospina, and José Pulido (Central Bank of Colombia) | Presentation (later published as BIS Working Papers, no 1048) Discussant: Sylvain Leduc (FRBSF) | Presentation |
| Informal Labor Markets in Times of Pandemic: Evidence for Latin America and Policy Options | Gustavo Leyva and Carlos Urrutia (Bank of Mexico) | Presentation Discussant: Alan Finkelstein (Tufts University) | Presentation |
Day 3 - 18 November
09:00 - 10:30
Chair: Fabrizio Zampolli (Bank for International Settlements)
| The Limited Power of Monetary Policy in a Pandemic | Antoine Lepetit and Cristina Fuentes-Albero (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Presentation (later published as BIS Working Papers, no 1018) Discussant: Mathias Trabandt (Goethe University Frankfurt) | Presentation |
| Unconventional Credit Policy in an Economy under Zero Lower Bound | Jorge Pozo and Youel Rojas (Central Reserve Bank of Peru) | Presentation (later published as BIS Working Papers, no 1019) Discussant: Fiorella De Fiore (Bank for International Settlements) | Presentation |
10:30 - 11:30
Chair: Alexandre Tombini (Bank for International Settlements)
Participants: Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School) | Presentation, Paul Beaudry (Bank of Canada) | Presentation, Hyun Song Shin (Bank for International Settlements) | Presentation, and Hernando Vargas (Central Bank of Colombia) | Presentation.
N.B. Paper presentations: 20 minutes - Discussion: 15 minutes - Open discussion: 10 minutes. The presenters of the papers are underlined.