NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC
MONETARY ECONOMICS PROGRAM MEETING
Laurence M. Ball and Christopher D. Carroll, Organizers
April 16, 2004
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, APRIL 15:
7:00 PM Dinner
Legal Sea Foods
(Kendall Square)
5 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02139
FRIDAY, APRIL 16:
8:00 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 THOMAS LAUBACH, Federal Reserve Board
New Evidence on the Interest Rate Effects of Budget Deficits and Debt
Discussant: BENJAMIN FRIEDMAN, Harvard University and NBER
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM OLIVIER BLANCHARD, MIT and NBER
Fiscal Dominance and Inflation Targeting:
Lessons from Brazil
Discussant: FREDRIC MISHKIN, Columbia University and NBER
11:15 AM RICARDO REIS, Harvard University
Inattentive Consumers
Discussant: JOHN SHEA, University of Maryland and NBER
12:15 PM Lunch
Over, Please!
Monetary Economics Program, Page 2:
1:15 PM ADAM POSEN, Institute for International Economics
It Takes More than a Bubble to Become Japan
Discussant: TAKEO HOSHI, UC, San Diego and NBER
2:15 PM Break
2:30 PM SUSANTO BASU and MILES KIMBALL, University of Michigan and NBER
Investment Planning Costs and the Effects of Fiscal and Monetary Policy
Discussant: SIMON GILCHRIST, Boston University and NBER
3:30 PM N. GREGORY MANKIW, Council of Economic Advisers and NBER
A Conversation (No Discussant)
4:30 PM Adjourn
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