NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

                         

INTERNATIONAL FINANCE AND MACROECONOMICS PROGRAM MEETING

 

Roberto Chang and Kristin Forbes, Organizers

 

March 13, 2009

 

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 2009

 

 

6:30 pm

Dinner

 

Dante Restaurant

 

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

 

Cambridge, MA

 

 

FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2009

 

 

7:45 am

Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

 

 

8:00 am

Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

 

 

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:30 am

SEBNEM KALEMLI-OZCAN, University of Houston and NBER

 

BENT SORENSEN, University of Houston

 

Deep Financial Integration and Volatility

 

(Joint with Vadym Volosovych)

 

 

 

Discussant:  ESWAR PRASAD, Cornell University and NBER

 

 

9:30 am

Coffee Break

 

 

10:00 am

CHARLES ENGEL, University of Wisconsin and NBER

 

Currency Misalignments and Optimal Monetary Policy: A Reexamination

 

 

 

Discussant:  MICHAEL DEVEREUX, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

 

 

 

11:00 am

MENZIE CHINN, University of Wisconsin and NBER

 

MICHAEL MOORE, Queen’s University

 

Private Information and the Monetary Model of Exchange Rates: Evidence from a Novel Data Set

 

 

 

Discussant:  MARTIN EVANS, Georgetown University

 

 

12:00 pm

Lunch

 

 

12:45 pm

ANDREW ROSE, UC Berkeley and NBER

 

MARK SPIEGEL, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

 

The Olympic Effect

 

 

 

Discussant:  ERIC VAN WINCOOP, University of Virginia and NBER

 

 

1:45 pm

Coffee Break

 

 

2:15 pm

EMINE BOZ, IMF

 

CHRISTIAN DAUDE, OECD

 

C. BORA DURDU, Federal Reserve Board

 

Emerging Market Business Cycles Revisited: Learning About the Trend

 

 

 

Discussant: GITA GOPINATH, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

3:15 pm

YURIY GORODNICHENKO, UC Berkeley and NBER

 

ENRIQUE MENDOZA, University of Maryland and NBER

 

LINDA TESAR, University of Michigan and NBER

 

The Finnish Great Depression: From Russia With Love

 

 

 

Discussant:  KIM RUHL, New York University

 

 

4:15 pm

Adjourn

 

 

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