NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting

Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims, Organizers

 

September 29, 2006

 

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

33 Liberty Street

New York, NY

 

PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28:

 

 

 6:30 pm

Reception and Dinner, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

   

 

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29:

 

 

 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

 9:00 am

ROBERT KOLLMANN, University of Paris XII

 

International Portfolio Equilibrium and the Current Account

 

 

 

Discussant:  FABRIZIO PERRI, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER

 

 

10:00 am

Coffee Break

 

 

10:30 am

JOHN COCHRANE, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Identification and Price Determination with Taylor Rules:  A Critical Review

 

 

 

Discussant:  ERIC LEEPER, Indiana University and NBER

 

 

11:30 am

STEPHANIE SCHMITT-GROHE and MARTIN URIBE, Duke University and NBER

 

Optimal Inflation Stabilization in a Medium-Scale Macroeconomic Model

 

 

 

Discussant:  CHRISTOPHER ERCEG, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:30 pm

BENJAMIN EDEN, Vanderbilt University

 

International Seigniorage Payments

 

 

 

Discussant:  CHRIS EDMOND, New York University

 

 

 2:30 pm

Coffee Break

 

 

 3:00 pm

FLORIN BILBIIE, University of Oxford

 

FABIO GHIRONI, Boston College and NBER

 

MARC MELITZ, Harvard University and NBER 

 

Endogenous Entry, Product Variety, and Business Cycles

 

 

 

Discussant:  MICHAEL WOODFORD, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

 4:00 pm

CRAIG BURNSIDE, Duke University and NBER

 

MARTIN EICHENBAUM, Northwestern University and NBER

 

ISAAC KLESHCHELSKI, Northwestern University

 

SERGIO REBELO, Northwestern University and NBER 

 

The Returns to Currency Speculation

 

 

 

Discussant:  PIERPAOLO BENIGNO, New York University and NBER

 

 

 5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

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