NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
Nineteenth Annual Conference on Macroeconomics
Mark Gertler and Kenneth Rogoff, Organizers
April 2 and 3, 2004
The Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, MA
PROGRAM
FRIDAY APRIL 2:
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM GRAZIELLA KAMINSKY, George Washington University and NBER
CARMEN REINHART, International Monetary Fund and NBER
CARLOS VEGH, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
Procylical Capital Flows and Macroeconomic Policies
Discussants: GITA GOPINATH, University of Chicago
ROBERTO RIGOBON, MIT and NBER
10:30 AM Break
10:45 AM ERIC ENGEN, American Enterprise Institute
R. GLENN HUBBARD, Columbia University and NBER
Federal Government Debt and Interest Rates
Discussants: JONATHAN PARKER, Princeton University and NBER
MATTHEW SHAPIRO, University of Michigan and NBER
12:15 PM Lunch
1:45 PM LUCREZIA REICHLIN, ECARE
Monetary Policy Making in Real Time
Discussants: MARK WATSON, Princeton University and NBER
HARALD UHLIG, Humboldt University
3:15 PM Break
3:30 PM JORDI GALI, CREI and NBER
PAU RABANAL, International Monetary Fund
Technology Shocks and Aggregate Fluctuations: How Well Does the RBC Model Fit Postwar U.S. Data?
Discussants: ELLEN MCGRATTAN, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER
VALERIE RAMEY, UC, San Diego and NBER
5:00 PM Adjourn
6:00 PM Group Dinner
Royal Sonesta Hotel
SATURDAY, APRIL 3:
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM DAVID BACKUS, New York University and NBER
BRYAN ROUTLEDGE, Carnegie Mellon University
STANLEY ZIN, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Exotic Preferences for Macroeconomists
Discussants: LARS HANSEN, University Chicago and NBER
IVAN WERNING, MIT and NBER
10:30 AM Break
11:00 AM PAUL GOMME, University of Iowa
RICHARD ROGERSON, Arizona State University and NBER
PETER RUPERT, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
RANDALL WRIGHT, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
The Business Cycle and the Life Cycle
Discussants: EVA NAGYPAL, Northwestern University
ROBERT SHIMER, University of Chicago and NBER
12:30 PM Adjourn
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