National Bureau of Economic Research
NBER: Reminders: IFM Program Meeting this Friday March 24

Subject: Reminders: IFM Program Meeting this Friday March 24
From: Andrew K. Rose (arose@haas.berkeley.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 20 2000 - 20:26:01 EST


Program
· Fernando Alvarez, Andrew Atkeson, and Patrick Kehoe “Volatile Exchange
Rates and the Forward Premium Anomaly: A Segmented Asset Market View”
o Discussants: Bernard Dumas, Urban Jermann
· Giancarlo Corsetti (Yale), Stephen Morris (Yale) and Hyun Song Shin
(Oxford) “Does one Soros make a difference? The role of a large trader in
currency crises”
o Discussants: Andres Velasco and Shang-Jin Wei
· Michael Klein and Giovanni Olivei (FRB Boston) “Capital Account
Liberalization, Financial Depth and Economic Growth”
o Discussants: Ross Levine (Minnesota), Menzie Chinn
· Andrew Rose “One Money, One Market: Estimating the Effect of Common
Currencies on Trade”
o Discussants: Jeffrey Frankel, Richard Portes
· Cedric Tille (FRB New York) “’Beggar-thy-Neighbor’ or ‘Beggar
Thyself’?
The Income Effect of Exchange Rate Fluctuations”
o Discussants: Kenneth Rogoff, Marianne Baxter

Session Format:
· 20 minutes for authors' presentation;
· 15 minutes for each of two discussants;
· 20 minutes general discussion; and
· 5 minutes authors' reply.

Schedule

8:00 Breakfast
8:30 Alvarez, Atkeson, and Kehoe
9:45 Corsetti, Morris and Shin
11:00 Break
11:15 Tille
12:30 Lunch
2:00 Klein and Olivei (Levine must be in early afternoon)
3:15 Coffee Break
3:30 Rose
4:45 Adjourn
    * Finally, Jeff Frankel has asked that the minimal font size for overheads
    be at least 20 points.

All this is available at: http://haas.berkeley.edu/~arose/IFMPM00.pdf

Andrew K. Rose Tel: (510) 642-6609
B.T. Rocca Professor Fax: (510) 642-4700
Haas School of Business arose@haas.berkeley.edu
Berkeley CA 94720-1900 http://haas.berkeley.edu/~arose