NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Monetary Economics Program Meeting

Jean Boivin and John Leahy and Organizers

April 21, 2006

NBER

2^nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

THURSDAY, APRIL 20:

7:00 PM Dinner

Legal Sea Foods

Kendall Square

5 Cambridge Center

Cambridge, MA

FRIDAY, APRIL 21:

8:00 am Shuttle Vans Depart The Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Ave.

8:15 am Shuttle Vans Depart The Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Ave.

8:30 am Continental Breakfast

9:00 am BARTOSZ MACKOWIAK and MIRKO WIEDERHOLT

Humboldt University Berlin

Optimal Sticky Prices under Rational Inattention

Discussant: LAURA VELDKAMP, New York University

10:00 am Break

10:20 am GEORGE-MARIOS ANGELETOS, MIT and NBER

ALESSANDRO PAVAN, Northwestern University

Efficient Use of Information and Welfare Analysis in Economies with Complementarities and Asymmetric Information

Discussant: HYUN SHIN, Princeton University

11:20 am Break

11:40 am LARS SVENSSON and NOAH WILLIAMS, Princeton University and NBER

Monetary Policy with Model Uncertainty: Distribution Forecast Targeting

Discussant: ALEXEI ONATSKI, Columbia University

12:40 pm Lunch

1:40 pm FREDERIC MISHKIN, Columbia University and NBER

NIKLAS WESTELIUS, Hunter College, City University of New York

Inflation Band Targeting and Optimal Inflation Contracts

Discussant: JOHN WILLIAMS, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

2:40 pm Break

3:00 pm JORDI GALI, MIT and NBER

TOMMASO MONACELLI, IGIER

Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a Currency Union

Discussant: PAOLO PESENTI, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and NBER

4:00 pm VIRGILIU MIDRIGAN, Ohio State University

Menu Costs, Multi-Product Firms and Aggregate Fluctuations

Discussant, ARIEL BURSTEIN, UC, Los Angeles

5:00 pm Adjourn

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