Sixth ECB Annual Research Conference

Welcome

Luc Laeven, Director General Research, European Central Bank

How to Talk When a Machine is Listening? Corporate Disclosure in the Age of AI

• Sean Cao, Georgia State University
• Wei Jiang*, Columbia Business School
• Baozhong Yang, Georgia State University
• Alan L. Zhang, Georgia State University

Discussant: Christopher Hennessy, London Business School

The Work-from-Home Technology Boon and its Consequences

• Morris A. Davis, Rutgers University
• Andra C. Ghent*, University of Utah
• Jesse M. Gregory, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Discussant: Abigail Adams-Prassl, University of Oxford

Jean Monnet Lecture - Good economics for hard times

Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chair: Isabel Schnabel, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank

End of day one

Who Is Afraid of Eurobonds?

• Francesco Bianchi*, Duke University
• Leonardo Melosi, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
• Anna Rogantini Picco, Sveriges Riksbank

Discussant: Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé, Columbia University

The Great Lockdown and the Big Stimulus: Tracing the Pandemic Possibility Frontier for the U.S.

• Greg Kaplan, University of Chicago
• Benjamin Moll, London School of Economics
• Giovanni L. Violante*, Princeton University

Discussant: Alessandra Fogli, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Central Bank Digital Currency: Welfare and Policy Implications

Stephen Williamson, University of Western Ontario

Discussant: Monika Piazzesi, Stanford University

End of conference