Treasury Markets Conference Schedule

LOCATION: Gleacher Center
Presentations will take place in room 308 and lunch in the Midway Club (5th Floor)

Time Activity
8:00—9:00 am Continental Breakfast
9:00—9:50 am Expectations and the Term Structure of Interest Rates
Presenter: Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi (Northwestern University)
Coauthors: Pooya Molavi (Northwestern University) and Andrea Vedolin (Boston University)
Discussant: Chen Wang (University of Notre Dame) 
9:50—10:00 am Break
10:00—10:50 am Liquidity Flows to Bank-Affiliated Broker Dealers: Insights from Volumes and Prices
Presenter: Jennie Bai (Georgetown University)
Coauthors: Erik Bostrom (FRB), Sebastian Infante (FRB), and Victoria Ivashina (Harvard University)
Discussant: Robert Jay Kahn (Federal Reserve Board of Governors)
10:50—11:00 am Break
11:00—11:50 am A European Safe Asset? Not Without the Investors
Presenter: Giovanni Bonfanti (Columbia University)
Coauthor: Juri Marcucci (Bank of Italy)
Discussant: Veronica de Falco (Imperial Business School)
noon—1:00 pm Lunch (Midway Club, 5th floor)
1:00—1:50 PM Keynote Address: Treasury Demand
Speaker: Lukas Schmidt (University of Southern California)
1:50—2:00 pm Break
2:00—2:50 pm The US Treasury Funding Advantage Since 1860
Presenter: Jonathan Payne (Princeton University)
Coauthors: Clemens Lehner (Columbia), Jack Shurtleff (FRB), and Bálint Szőke (FRB)
Discussant: David Zeke (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)
2:50—3:00 pm Break
3:00—3:50 pm What Treasury Auctions Reveal About Investor Demand
Presenter: Fabricius Somogyi (Northeastern University)
Coauthors: Jonathan Wallen (Harvard Business School) and Lingdi Xu (Harvard University)
Discussant: Filippo Cavaleri (University of Chicago)
3:50—4:00 pm Break
4:00—4:50 pm A Demand System for the Repo Market: Implications for Repo and Treasury Pricing
Presenter: Davide Tomio (Texas A&M University)
Coauthors: Lorianna Pelizzon (Goethe University Frankfurt), Andrea Poinelli (Deutche Bundesbank), Benoit Nguyen (ECB), and Tobias Linzert (ECB)
Discussant: Manav Chaudhary (London School of Economics)
4:50—5:00 pm Closing Remarks
6:00 pm Dinner - Avec River North
(note: dinner is for faculty and presenters only)