NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

International Finance and Macroeconomics Program Meeting

Charles Engel and Andrew K. Rose, Organizers

October 28, 2000

1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

DISCUSSANTS TO BE ANNOUNCED

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27:

6:00 PM	Dinner
		The Royal Sonesta Hotel
		5 Cambridge Parkway
		Cambridge, MA 02138
		
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28:

8:00 AM	Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM	WILLIAM P. KILLEEN, BNP Paribas Asset Management
		RICHARD K. LYONS, UC, Berkeley and NBER	
		MICHAEL J. MOORE, 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

International Finance and Macroeconomics Program Meeting, Page 2:

2:00 PM	AART KRAAY, World Bank
		NORMAN LOAYZA, Banco Central de Chile
		LUIS SERVEN, 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		

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