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NBER: NBER International Finance and Macro Program Meeting, Fri Mar 23 (Cambridge)

Subject: NBER International Finance and Macro Program Meeting, Fri Mar 23 (Cambridge)
From: Andrew Rose (arose@haas.berkeley.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 16 2001 - 15:55:35 EST


Rich Lyons and I invite you to Cambridge for the IFM Program Meeting,
Friday March 23 2001. The program is both appended and attached as a PDF
file. The latter is also available on-line at:
http://haas.berkeley.edu/~arose/IFMPM01.pdf
The NBER will be sending out a formal invitation shortly. We look forward
to seeing you at 1050 --

NBER IFM Program Meeting
Friday March 23 2001, Cambridge MA
Organizers: Richard Lyons and Andrew Rose
Draft: as of January 16, 2001
Program:
1. Menzie Chinn (CEA, UCSC and NBER) and Guy Meredith (IMF and HKMA)
“Testing Uncovered Interest Parity at Short and Long Horizons”
Discussants: Robert Flood (IMF), Karen Lewis (Penn and NBER)

2. Kathryn Dominguez (Michigan and NBER) and Linda Tesar (Michigan and
NBER) “A Re-Examination of Industry- and Firm-Level Exchange Rate Exposure”
Discussants: Bernard Dumas (INSEAD and NBER), Kristin Forbes (MIT and NBER)

3. Margarida Duarte (FRB Richmond) and Alan Stockman (Rochester and
NBER) “Rational Speculation and Exchange Rates”
Discussants: Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard and NBER) and Olivier Jeanne (IMF)

4. Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas (Princeton and NBER), Rodrigo Valdés (MF
Chile) and Oscar Landerretche (MIT) “Lending Booms: Latin America and the
World”
Discussants: Carmen Reinhart (Maryland and NBER) Nouriel Roubini (NYU and NBER)

5. Eric Parrado (NYU) and Andrés Velasco (Harvard and NBER) “Optimal
Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy”
Discussants: Paolo Pesenti (FRBNY and NBER), Jaume Ventura (MIT and NBER)

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

Tentative Schedule

Dinner: Thursday March 22 (TBA)

8:00 Breakfast
8:30 Dominguez-Tesar
9:45 Parrado-Velasco
11:00 Break
11:15 Gourinchas, Valdés and Landerretche
12:30 Lunch
2:00 Chinn-Meredith
3:15 Coffee Break
3:30 Duarte-Stockman
4:45 Adjourn

Notes:
· A current version of this file is available at
http://haas.berkeley.edu/~arose/IFMPM01.pdf
· The IFM group strongly discourages illegible overhead
transparencies (e.g., those with font sizes below 16).

Contacts:
· Richard Lyons (lyons@haas.berkeley.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