NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.



SUMMER INSTITUTE 2000



Impulse and Propagation Mechanisms



Lawrence Christiano and Martin Eichenbaum, Organizers



Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts



July 24-28, 2000



PRELIMINARY PROGRAM



MONDAY, JULY 24:



8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts



9:00 AM BENJAMIN EDEN, University of Haifa

A Monetary Shock in an Uncertain and Sequential Trade Model



10:00 AM Break



10:15 AM GADI BARLEVY, Northwestern University

Evaluating the Costs of Business Cycles in Models of Endogenous Growth



11:15 AM Break



11:30 AM AUBHIK KHAN, University of Virginia

JULIE THOMAS, Carnegie-Mellon Univeristy

Nonconvex Factor Adjustment and the Business Cycle:

Do Nonlinearities Matter



12:30 PM Lunch and Adjourn













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TUESDAY, JULY 25:



8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts



9:00 AM JEFFREY CAMPBELL, University of Chicago

JONAS FISHER, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Idiosyncratic Risk and Aggregate Employment Dynamics



10:00 AM Break



10:15 AM CHRISTOPHER ERCEG, and ANDREW LEVIN, Federal Reserve Board

Imperfect Credibility and Inflation Persistence



11:15 AM Break



11:30 AM WILLIAM DUPOR, University of Pennsylvania

Investment and Interest Rate Policy



12:30 PM Lunch and Adjourn



WEDNESDAY, JULY 26:



8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts



9:00 AM MONIKA PIAZZESI, Stanford University

An Econometric Model of the Yield Curve with Macroeconomic Jump Effects

10:00 AM Break



10:15 AM MICHELLE ALEXOPOULOS, University of Toronto

Efficiency Wages and the Business Cycle



11:15 AM Break













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WEDNESDAY, JULY 26: cont.



11:30 AM JORDI GALI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

TOMMASO MONACELLI, Boston College

Optimal Monetary Policy and Exchange Rate Volatility in a Small Open Economy



12:30 PM Lunch and Adjourn

6:00 PM Clambake

Harvard Faculty Club

20 Quincy St.

Cambridge, MA



THURSDAY, JULY 27:



8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts



9:00 AM JESS BENHABIB, New York University

STEPHANIE SCHMITT-GROHE, Rutgers University

MARTIN URIBE, University of Pennsylvania

Avoiding Liquidity Traps



10:00 AM Break



10:15 AM HAL COLE, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

LEE OHANIAN, UC, Los Angeles

Re-Examining the Contributions of Money and Banking Shocks to

the U.S. Great Depression*

11:15 AM Break



11:30 AM MARCO BASSETTO, Northwestern University

A Game Theoretic View of the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level



12:30 PM Lunch and Adjourn







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FRIDAY, JULY 28:



8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts

9:00 AM CHARLES CARLSTROM, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

TIMOTHY FUERST, Bowling Green Univeristy

Monetary Shocks, Agency Costs and Business Cycles



10:00 AM Break



10:15 AM ARGIA SBORDONNE, Rutgers University

An Optimizing Model of U.S. Wage and Price Dynamics



11:15 AM Break



11:30 AM BOYAN JOVANOVIC, New York University and NBER

PETER ROUSSEAU, Vanderbilt University and NBER

Technology and the Stock Market: 1885-1998



12:30 PM Lunch and Adjourn



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