NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

International Seminar on Macroeconomics

 

Lucrezia Reichlin and Kenneth West, 2006 Program Organizers

Jeffrey Frankel and Francesco Giavazzi, ISOM Co-Chairs

 

June 16-17, 2006

 

Radisson SAS Hotel Tallinn

Ravala 3, 10143 Tallinn

Estonia

 

PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, JUNE 16:

 

 

9:00 am

Welcome

 

 

9:45 am

GIANCARLO CORSETTI, European University Institute

 

LUCA DEDOLA, European Central Bank

 

SYLVAIN LEDUC, Federal Reserve Board

 

Productivity, External Balance and Exchange Rates:

 

Evidence on the Transmission Mechanism Among G7 Countries

 

 

 

Discussants:      SUSANTO BASU, Boston College and NBER

 

                        ROBERT KOLLMAN, University of Paris XII

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

LANS BOVENBERG, Tilburg University

 

HARALD UHLIG, Humboldt University

 

Pension Systems and the Allocation of Macroeconomic Risk

 

 

 

Discussants:      HENNING BOHN, UC, Santa Barbara

 

                        PHILIPPE WEIL, Universite Libre de Bruxelles and NBER

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:30 pm

TROY DAVIG, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas

 

ERIC LEEPER, Indiana University and NBER

 

Threshold Regime Switching: Spillovers, Asymmetries, and Preemptive Actions

 

 

 

Discussants:      RICHARD CLARIDA, Columbia University and NBER

 

                        JESPER LINDE, Sveriges Riksbank

 

 

 2:45 pm

CHRYSSI GIANNITSAROU, University of Cambridge

 

ANDREW SCOTT, London Business School

 

Inflation Implications of Rising Government Debt

 

 

 

Discussants:      DOMENICO GIANNONE, Universite Libre de Bruxelles

 

                        ERIC LEEPER, Indiana University and NBER

 

 

 

 

 4:00 pm

JULIO ROTEMBERG, Harvard University and NBER

 

Cyclical Wages in a Search-and-Bargaining Model with Large Firms

 

 

 

Discussants:      RODOLFO MANUELLI, University of Wisconsin and NBER

 

                        ANTONELLA TRIGARI, Universita Bocconi

 

 

 5:15 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 7:00 pm

Group Dinner

 

Egoist Restaurant

 

Vene 33, Tallinn 

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY, JUNE 17:

 

 

9:00 am

MORTEN RAVN, European University Institute

 

The Consumption – Tightness Puzzle

 

 

 

Discussants:      KAI CHRISTOFFEL, European Central Bank

 

                        JULIO ROTEMBERG, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

10:15 am

Break

 

 

10:30 am

LINDA TESAR, University of Michigan and NBER

 

Production Sharing and Business Cycle Synchronization in the Accession Countries

 

 

 

Discussants:      PAUL BERGIN, UC, Davis and NBER

 

                        AURELIJUS DABUSINSKAS, Bank of Estonia

 

 

11:45 am

FRANCIS DIEBOLD, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

KAMIL YILMAZ, Koç University

 

Volatility Contagion

 

 

 

Discussants:      MICHAEL BINDER, University of Frankfurt

 

                        KATHRYN DOMINGUEZ, University of Michigan and NBER

 

 

1:00 pm

Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

3:30 pm

Meet in Hotel Lobby for Visit to Monastery and Guided Tour of the Old Town of Tallinn

 

5:30 pm 

Group Dinner

 

Restaurant Olde Hansa 

 

Vana Turg 1, Tallinn 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6/14/06