NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
FRIDAY, JUNE 14:
9:50 AM Welcome
10:00 AM ROEL BEETSMA, University of Amsterdam
HENRIK JENSEN, University of Copenhagen
Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interactions in a Micro-Founded Model of a Monetary Union
Discussants: PETER IRELAND, Boston College and NBER
VOLKER WIELAND, Goethe University of Frankfurt
11:10 AM Break
11:30 AM ROBERTO PEROTTI, European University Institute
Estimating the Effects of Fiscal Policy in OECD Countries
Discussants: ZVI ECKSTEIN, Tel Aviv University
JON FAUST, Federal Reserve Board
12:40 PM Lunch
1:40 PM FRANK SMETS, European Central Bank
RAF WOUTERS, National Bank of Belgium
An Estimated Stochastic Dynamic General Equilibrium
Model of the Euro Area
Discussants: JORDI GALI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
NOAH WILLIAMS, Princeton University
2:50 PM Break
3:10 PM ALEXEI ONATSKI, Columbia University
NOAH WILLIAMS, Princeton University
Discussants: GLENN RUDEBUSCH, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
ULF SÖDERSTRÖM, Bank of Sweden
4:20 PM KATHARINE NEISS and EDWARD NELSON, Bank of England
Inflation Dynamics, Marginal Cost, and the Output Gap:
Evidence from Three Countries
Discussants: MARK GERTLER, New York University and NBER
KAI LEITEMO, Bank of Norway
5:30 PM Adjourn
7:30 PM Group Dinner
Restaurant Emma Metzler
Café im Museumspark, Museum fuer Angewandte Kunst
Schaumainkai 17, 60596 Frankfurt
Dinner Speaker: OTMAR ISSING, European Central Bank
SATURDAY, JUNE 15:
8:45 AM PANEL DISCUSSION:
GEORGES DE MENIL, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
ROBERT GORDON, Northwestern University and NBER
Twenty-Five Years of ISOM and European Macroeconomics
9:15 AM N. GREGORY MANKIW, Harvard University and NBER
RICARDO REIS, Harvard University
What Measure of Inflation Should a Central Bank Target?
Discussants: IGNAZIO ANGELONI, European Central Bank
WILLIAM DUPOR, University of Pennsylvania
10:25 AM Break
10:45 AM CHARLES ENGEL and KENNETH WEST, University of Wisconsin and NBER
Taylor Rules and the Deutschmark - Dollar Real Exchange Rate
Discussants: JEFFREY FRANKEL, Harvard University and NBER
HELENE REY, Princeton University and NBER
11:55 AM JON FAUST, JOHN ROGERS, ERIC SWANSON and
JONATHAN WRIGHT, Federal Reserve Board
Identifying the Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks on Exchange Rates Using Fed
Funds Futures Data
Discussants: ILIAN MIHOV, INSEAD
CHRISTOPHER SIMS, Princeton University and NBER
1:05 PM Lunch and Adjourn
7:00 PM Group Dinner
Auf Schoenburg Restaurant - Rhine Castle Hotel
55430 Oberwesel
(Participants to be transported by bus)
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