NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

FRIDAY, APRIL 5:

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM NANCY STOKEY, University of Chicago

'Rules versus Discretion' after Twenty-Five Years

Discussants: PETER IRELAND, Boston College and NBER

LARS SVENSSON, Princeton University and NBER

10:30 AM Break

10:45 AM AART KRAAY, The World Bank

JAUME VENTURA, MIT and NBER

Foreign Assets as a Buffer Stock

Discussants: FABRIZIO PERRI, New York University

ERIC VAN WINCOOP, University of Virginia

12:15 PM Lunch

1:45 PM J. BRADFORD DELONG, UC, Berkeley and NBER

Productivity Growth in the 2000s

Discussants: SUSANTO BASU, University of Michigan and NBER

BOYAN JOVANOVIC, University of Chicago and NBER

3:15 PM Break

3:30 PM JAMES STOCK, Harvard University and NBER

MARK WATSON, Princeton University and NBER

Has the Business Cycle Changed and Why?

Discussants: JORDI GALI, CREI and NBER

ROBERT HALL, Stanford University and NBER

5:00 PM Adjourn

6:00 PM Group Dinner

Royal Sonesta Hotel

SATURDAY, APRIL 6:

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM CHARLES ENGEL, University of Wisconsin and NBER

Expenditure Switching and Exchange Rate Policy

Discussants: KAREN LEWIS, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

PIERRE-OLIVIER GOURINCHAS, Princeton University and NBER

10:30 AM Break

11:00 AM ALBERTO ALESINA and ROBERT BARRO, Harvard University and NBER

SILVANA TENREYRO, Harvard University

Optimal Currency Areas

Discussants: RUDI DORNBUSCH, MIT and NBER

ANDREW ROSE, UC, Berkeley and NBER

12:30 PM Adjourn

3/7/02