Subject: Fall IFM Program Meeting, Saturday, October 28, Cambridge, MA
From: Charles Engel (cengel@ssc.wisc.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 15 2000 - 18:58:48 EDT
I both attach and append a copy of the International Finance and
Macroeconomics Program Meeting, scheduled for
Saturday, October 28, 2000 in Cambridge.While you will be hearing from the NBER
Conference Department shortly, we urge you to set the dates aside now.
We look forward to seeing you in Cambridge!
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
International Finance and Macroeconomics
Charles Engel and Linda Tesar, Organizers
October 28, 2000
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Discussants to be announced
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27:
6:00 PM Group Dinner - Location to be announced
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28:
8:00 AM Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM WILLIAM P. KILLEEN, BNP Paribas Asset Mangement
RICHARD K. LYONS, UC, Berkeley, and NBER
MICHAEL J. MOORE, The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland
Fixed vs. Floating: Lessons from EMS Order Flow
9:45 AM PETER BLAIR HENRY, Stanford University and NBER
One Story of Disinflation Does Not Fit All Levels of Inflation:
Evidence From Stock Markets
11:00 AM Break
11:15 AM ENRIQUE MENDOZA, Duke University and NBER
On the Benefits of Dollarization when Stabilization Policy is not Credible
and Financial Markets are Imperfect
12:30 PM Lunch
2:00 PM AART KRAAY, The World Bank
NORMAN LOAYZA, Banco Central de Chile and the World Bank
LUIS SERVEN, The World Bank
JAUME VENTURA, MIT and NBER
Country Portfolios
3:15 PM Break
3:30 PM JEFFREY A. FRANKEL, Harvard University and NBER
ANDREW K. ROSE, UC, Berkeley and NBER
An Estimate of the Effects of Currency Unions on Trade and Growth
4:45 PM Adjourn
Charles Engel
Department of Economics
University of Wisconsin
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1393
Phone: (608) 262-3697
Fax: (608) 262-2033
