Conference Agenda

Session

B1: Monetary Information, Beliefs, and Asset Prices

Time:

Friday, 27/Mar/2026:

9:00am - 10:45am

Session Chair: Ganesh Viswanath, Warwick Business School

Location: Room "Link"

Presentations

Financial Market Effects of FOMC Communication: Evidence from a New Event-Study Database

Miguel Acosta², Andrea Ajello³, Michael Bauer¹, Francesca Loria³, Silvia Miranda-Agrippino⁴

1: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; 2: University of Wisconsin-Madison; 3: Federal Reserve Board of Governors; 4: Oxford University

Discussant: Xiyuan Ma (Singapore Management University)

Monetary Transmission in Equity Markets: Evidence from Financial Intermediaries

Pranav Garg¹, Matthew Famiglietti²

1: Yale University; 2: Yale University

Discussant: Andreas Schrimpf (BIS)

Under Pressure? Central Bank Independence Meets Blockchain Prediction Markets

Barry Eichengreen³, Ganesh Viswanath-Natraj¹, Junxuan Wang², Zijie Wang¹

1: Warwick Business School; 2: HKUST Guangzhou; 3: UC Berkeley

Discussant: Michael Bauer (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)