Dear IFM Members:
I wish you all a happy New Year.
I am writing to find potential discussants for this years meeting of the International Seminar on Macroeconomics (ISOM) in June.
As most of you know, ISoM is an NBER conference held in a different European city each year, for the last 33 years. I am the American co-chair, on behalf of the NBER. Francesco Giavazzi is European co-chair of ISoM. In 2011, Chris Pissarides of LSE is the European co-organizer of the program, with me. The other members of the ISoM Board are Rich Clarida, Ken West, and Lucrezia Reichlin. Click on http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~jfrankel/Recent_ConfBksNBER.htm and go to ISoM if you want to see more on recent history.
The 2011 meeting will be held in Malta, Friday-Saturday, 17-18 June. Our local host will be the Central Bank of Malta. Malta is a sunny island in the Mediterranean, settled by crusaders, and now in the euro. The NBER pays the transportation expenses of the US participants, under the usual procedures.
In the old days, we published the proceedings through the official journal of the European Economic Association. In recent years we have been publishing most of the papers (after an expedited reviewing process), together with discussants' comments, in a companion volume to the highly successful NBER Macro Annual. Both are published through the University of Chicago Press.
See below for the list of authors and paper topics or titles. In some cases, an abstract or proposal is available. In other cases, we havent quite finished nailing down what the paper will do, but should know more soon.
I would be happy to answer any questions.
Author line-up: ISoM 2011
Joshua Aizenman (UCSC) and Yothin Jinjarak (University of London): Fiscal Stimulus in 2008-9: Trade Openness, Financial Exposure and Exchange Rate Adjustment
Barry Eichengreen (UCB) and Andy Rose (UCB): Exiting Up; Appreciating Departures from Fixed Exchange Rates
Andrei Levchenko (U.Michigan) and Julian di Giovanni (IMF): The Risk Content of Exports: A Portfolio View of International Trade
Romain Wacziarg (UCLA) and Enrico Spolaore (Tufts): Long-term Barriers to the Diffusion of Technologies Across Countries
Claudio Michelacci (CEMFI): growth, technology and employment
Giancarlo Corsetti (Cambridge University): international macro, perhaps monetary policy in a currency area with imperfect financial markets
Paolo Epifani and Gianmarco Ottaviano (Bocconi University Milan): On the Real Gains from Currency Manipulation
Gilles St Paul (Toulouse): political economy
Best regards,
Jeff Frankel
Received on Tue Dec 28 2010 - 17:46:52 EST
