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