Conferences.

International Seminar on Macroeconomics

The International Seminar on Macroeconomics took place June 20-21 in Athens, Greece. Research Associate Kristin Forbes of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Research Associate (on leave) Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas of the University of California, Berkeley and the International Monetary Fund, and Ricardo Reis of the London School of Economics organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Luis Fonseca, European Central Bank, and Katerina Nikalexi and Elias Papaioannou, London Business School, "The Globalization of Corporate Control"

* Linda S. Goldberg, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and NBER, and Signe Krogstrup, Bank of Denmark, "International Capital Flow Pressures and Global Factors"

* Grace Weishi Gu, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Galina Hale, University of California, Santa Cruz and NBER, "Climate Risk and FDI"

* Marta A. Santamaria, University of Warwick; Jaume Ventura, CREI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and NBER; and Ugur Yesilbayraktar, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, "Exploring European Regional Trade"

* Olivier Jeanne, Johns Hopkins University and NBER, and Damiano Sandri, International Monetary Fund, "Global Financial Cycle and Liquidity Management" (NBER Working Paper 27901)

* Alberto Cavallo, Harvard University and NBER, and Oleksiy Kryvtsov, Bank of Canada, "What Can Stockouts Tell Us about Inflation? Evidence from Online Micro Data" (NBER Working Paper 29209)

* Zhen Huo, Yale University; Andrei A. Levchenko, University of Michigan and NBER; and Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, University of Texas at Austin and NBER, "Utilization-Adjusted TFP across Countries: Measurement and Implications for International Comovement" (NBER Working Paper 26803)

* George A. Alessandria, University of Rochester and NBER; Shafaat Y. Khan, The World Bank; Armen Khederlarian, University of Connecticut; Carter B. Mix, Federal Reserve Board; and Kim J. Ruhl, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER, "The Aggregate Effects of Global and Local Supply Chain Bottlenecks: 2020-2022"

Summaries of some of these papers are available at www.nber.org/conferences/international-seminar-macroeconomics-2022

Distributional Consequences of New Energy Technologies

A conference on Distributional Consequences of New Energy Technologies took place June 23-24 in Cambridge, MA and online. Research Associates Catherine Hausman of the University of Michigan and Arik Levinson of Georgetown University organized the meeting, which was supported by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant #2020-14025. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Jackson Dorsey, Indiana University, and Derek C. Wolfson, University of California, Berkeley, "Income and Racial Disparities in Markets for New Energy Technologies"

* Andrew R. Waxman and Sheila Olmstead, University of Texas at Austin, "Measuring the Welfare and Distributional Effects of Co-benefits of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Technology"

* Dallas Burtraw, Maya Domeshek, Christoph Funke, Daniel L. Shawhan, and Steven Witkin, Resources for the Future, and Burcin Unel and Ana Varela Varela, New York University, "Distributional Impacts of Carbon Capture Technology"

* Jonathan M. Colmer, University of Virginia, and John L. Voorheis, US Census Bureau, "The Distributional Consequences of the Clean...