International Finance and Macroeconomics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

Members of the NBER's International Finance and Macroeconomics Program met in Cambridge on October 27. Research Associates Guido Lorenzoni of Northwestern University and Vivian Yue of Emory University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Doireann Fitzgerald, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER; Yaniv Yedid-Levi, University of British Columbia; and Stefanie Haller, University College Dublin, "Can Sticky Quantities Explain Exchange Rate Disconnect?"

* Javier Bianchi, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER; Pablo Ottonello, University of Michigan; and Ignacio Presno, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, "Fiscal Policy, Sovereign Risk, and Unemployment"

* John D. Burger, Loyola University Maryland; Francis E. Warnock, University of Virginia and NBER; and Veronica Cacdac Warnock, University of Virginia, "Currency Matters: Analyzing International Bond Portfolios" (NBER Working Paper No. 23175)

* Yusuf Soner Baskaya, University of Glasgow; Julian di Giovanni, ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan...