NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.



Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting

Kenneth West and Michael Woodford, Organizers



July 22, 2000



Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts



PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

DISCUSSANTS TO BE ANNOUNCED



FRIDAY, JULY 21:



6:30 PM Reception and Dinner

Royal Sonesta Hotel



SATURDAY, JULY 22:



8:30 AM Continental Breakfast



9:00 AM PIERRE-OLIVIER GOURINCHAS, Princeton University and NBER

Precautionary Savings, LifeCycle and Macroeconomics

10:00 AM Coffee Break



10:30 AM MARVIN J. BARTH III, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

VALERIE A. RAMEY, UC, San Diego and NBER

The Cost Channel of Monetary Transmission



11:30 AM PAUL BEAUDRY, University of British Columbia and NBER

FRANCK PORTIER, Université de Toulouse

An Exploration into Pigou's Theory of Cycles



12:30 PM Lunch



1:30 PM CRAIG BURNSIDE, World Bank

MARTIN EICHENBAUM and

SERGIO REBELO, Northwestern University and NBER

On the Fundamentals of Self-Fulfilling Speculative Attacks

2:30 PM Coffee Break



3:00 PM STEFANIA ALBANESI, Northwestern University

V.V. CHARI, University of Minnesota

LAWRENCE CHRISTIANO, Northwestern University and NBER

Expectation Traps and Monetary Policy



4:00 PM STEPHEN BOND, Oxford University

JASON G. CUMMINS, New York University

The Stock Market and Investment in the New Economy:

Some Tangible Facts and Intangible Fictions



5:00 PM Adjourn 5/31/00