THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31:

6:30 PM Dinner

Legal Sea Foods

Kendall Square

5 Cambridge Center

Cambridge, MA 02139

617/864-3400

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1:

8:00 AM Shuttle Van from the Royal Sonesta to NBER

8:30 AM Shuttle Van from the Royal Sonesta to NBER

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER

SIMON JOHNSON, MIT and NBER

JAMES ROBINSON, UC, Berkeley

Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms: Volatility,

Crises and Growth

(Joint with Yunyong Thaicharoen, Bank of Thailand)

STEPHEN HABER, Stanford University and NBER

10:00 AM Break

10:30 AM TIMOTHY COGLEY, Arizona State University

THOMAS J. SARGENT, New York University and NBER

Drifts and Volatilities; Monetary Policies and Outcomes

in the Post WWII U.S.

Discussant: MARK WATSON, Princeton University and NBER

11:30 AM JEAN BOIVIN, Columbia University and NBER

MARC GIANNONI, Columbia University

Has Monetary Policy Become Less Powerful?

Discussant: CHARLES EVANS, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Over, please!

Monetary Economics Program, Page 2:

November 1, 2002

12:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM ARIEL BURSTEIN, University of Michigan

Inflation and Output Dynamics with State Dependent Pricing Decisions

Discussant: ROBERT KING, Boston University and NBER

2:30 PM Break

3:00 PM PETER IRELAND, Boston College and NBER

Technology Shocks in the New Keynesian Model

Discussant: MILES KIMBALL, University of Michigan and NBER

4:00 PM N. GREGORY MANKIW, Harvard University and NBER

RICARDO REIS, Harvard University

What Measure of Inflation Should a Central Bank Target?

Discussant: PIERPAOLO BENIGNO, New York University

5:00 PM Adjourn

10/22/02