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NBER: An English version of the IFM Program for this Friday

Subject: An English version of the IFM Program for this Friday
From: Andrew Rose (arose@haas.berkeley.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 21 2000 - 10:50:23 EST


Apologies for those who can only use Greek in equations ...

NBER IFM Program Meeting
Friday March 24 2000, Cambridge MA
Organizers: Charles Engel and Andrew Rose
Draft: as of March 14, 2000

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

All participants are NBER unless otherwise noted.

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

Notes:
· A current version of this file is available at
http://haas.berkeley.edu/~arose/IFMPM00.pdf
· The IFM group strongly discourages illegible overhead
transparencies (e.g., those with font sizes below 16).

Contacts:
· Charles Engel (cmengel@u.washington.edu)
· Andrew Rose (arose@haas.berkeley.edu)
· Jeffrey Frankel (Jeffrey_Frankel/FS/KSG@ksg.harvard.edu)
· NBER Conference Dept (confer@nber.org)

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