NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
International Finance and Macroeconomics Program Meeting
Charles Engel and Linda Tesar, Organizers
October 26, 2001
NBER, Offices
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25:
6:30 PM Dinner
Legal Sea Foods Restaurant
Kendall Square
5 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26:
8:00 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.
8:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.
8:00 AM Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER
JAUME VENTURA, MIT and NBER
Discussants: PIERRE-OLIVIER GOURINCHAS, Princeton University and NBER
RICARDO HAUSMANN, Harvard University
9:45 AM SERGIO REBELO, Northwestern University and NBER
CARLOS A. VEGH, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
When is it Optimal to Abandon a Fixed Exchange Rate?
Discussants: ROBERT FLOOD, International Monetary Fund
MICHAEL W. KLEIN, Tufts University and NBER
11:00 AM Break
11:15 AM TORBEN G. ANDERSEN, Northwestern University and NBER
TIM BOLLERSLEV, Duke University and NBER
FRANCIS X. DIEBOLD, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
CLARA VEGA, University of Pennsylvania
Micro-Effects of Macro Announcements: Real Time Price Discovery in
Foreign Exchange
Discussants: KATHRYN DOMINGUEZ, University of Michigan and NBER
NELSON MARK, Ohio State University and NBER Over, Please! International Finance and Macroeconomics Program Meeting, Page 2:
12:30 PM Lunch
2:00 PM MICHAEL W. BRANDT, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
JOHN H. COCHRANE, University of Chicago and NBER
PEDRO SANTA-CLARA, UC, Los Angeles
International Risk Sharing is Better Than You Think (or Exchange Rates are
Much Too Smooth)
Discussants: HELENE REY, Princeton University and NBER
ROBERTO RIGOBON, MIT and NBER
3:30 PM RUI ALBUQUERQUE, University of Rochester
The Composition of International Capital Flows: Risk Sharing through Foreign Direct Investment
Discussants: ROBERT LIPSEY, CUNY and NBER
JONATHAN EATON, Boston University and NBER
4:45 PM Adjourn
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