THURSDAY, APRIL 26:
6:00 PM Dinner
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, MA 02139
FRIDAY, APRIL 27:
8:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.
8:30 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM GEORGE W. EVANS, University of Oregon
SEPPO HONKAPOHJA, University of Helsinki
Expectations and the Stability Problem for Optimal Monetary Policies
Discussant: BENNETT MCCALLUM, Carnegie-Mellon University and NBER
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM ERIC T. SWANSON, Board of Governors
Optimal Nonliner Policy: Signal Extraction with a Non-Normal Prior
Discussant: NOAH WILLIAMS, University of Chicago
11:15 AM SUSAN ATHEY, MIT and NBER
ANDREW ATKESON, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
PATRICK KEHOE, University of Minnesota and NBER
On the Optimality of Transparent Monetary Policy
Discussant: JON FAUST, Board of Governors
12:15 PM Lunch
1:00 PM ROBERT J. BARRO, Harvard University and NBER
SILVANA TENREYRO, Harvard University
Closed and Open Economy Models of Business Cycles
with Marked Up and Sticky Prices
Discussant: MARK BILS, University of Rochester and NBER
Over, Please!
Monetary Economics Program Continued, Page 2:
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM CHRISTOPHER OTROK, University of Virginia
B. RAVIKUMAR, Pennsylvania State University
CHARLES H. WHITEMAN, University of Iowa
Habit Formation: A Resolution of the Equity Premium Puzzle?
Discussant: JOHN C. HEATON, University of Chicago and NBER
3:15 PM Break
3:30 PM SUSANTO BASU and MILES S. KIMBALL, University of Michigan and NBER
Long-Run Labor Supply and the Elasticity of the Intertemporal
Substitution for Consumption
Discussant: ROBERT HALL, Stanford University and NBER
4:30 PM Adjourn
4/13/01