THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8:
6:00 PM Dinner
Restaurant Dante
(Royal Sonesta Hotel)
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, MA
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9:
8:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue
8:30 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM HESS CHUNG, Indiana University
ERIC LEEPER, Indiana University and NBER
What Has Financed Government Debt?
Discussant: JAMES HAMILTON, UC, San Diego and NBER
10:00 AM Break
10:20 AM GAUTI EGGERTSSON, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Was the New Deal Contractionary?
Discussant: DALE HENDERSON, Federal Reserve Board
11:20 AM Break
11:40 AM GITA GOPINATH, Harvard University and NBER
OLEG ITSKHOKI, Harvard University
ROBERTO RIGOBON, MIT and NBER
Currency Choice and Exchange Rate Pass-Through
Discussant: PAOLO PESENTI, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and NBER
MONETARY ECONOMICS PROGRAM, PAGE 2:
12:40 PM Lunch
1:40 PM LAWRENCE CHRISTIANO, Northwestern University and NBER
COSMIN ILUT, Northwestern University
ROBERTO MOTTO and MASSIMO ROSTAGNO, European Central Bank
Monetary Policy and Stock Market Boom-Bust Cycles
Discussant: JOHN C. WILLIAMS, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
2:40 PM Break
3:00 PM FRANCOIS VELDE, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Chronicle of a Deflation Unforetold
Discussant: RICARDO REIS, Princeton University and NBER
4:00 PM PATRICK KEHOE, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER
VIRGILIU MIDRIGAN, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Sales and the Real Effects of Monetary Policy
Discussant: EMI NAKAMURA, Columbia University and NBER
5:00 PM Adjourn
9/28/07