NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Europe and the Euro Pre-Conference

 

Alberto Alesina and Francesco Gavazzi, Organizers

 

July 11, 2007

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Somerset Room

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, MA

 

PRELIMINARY LIST OF PAPERS

 

The Political Economy of the Euro

 

ALBERTO ALESINA, Harvard University and NBER

SILVIA ARDAGNA, Harvard University

VINCENZO GALASSO, Università Bocconi

The Euro and the Political Economy of Structural Reform

           

            Is the Euro Forever?

 

BARRY EICHENGREEN, UC, Berkeley and NBER

                        TBA

 

The Effects of the Euro on Trade

 

            JEFFREY FRANKEL, Harvard University and NBER

ERNESTO STEIN, Inter-American Development Bank

The Effects of the Euro on European Trade So Far:  Are They in Line with Historical Evidence on Monetary Unions among Smaller Countries?

 

The Euro and Financial Markets

 

ANIL KASHYAP, University of Chicago and NBER

REINT GROPP, University Frankfurt

Cross-Border Banking in the Euro Area

 

ALBERTO GIOVANNINI, Unifortune Asset Management, Milan

On The Segmentation of European Payment and Settlement Systems

 

The Euro and the Growth and Stability Pact

 

ANTONIO FATAS and ILIAN MIHOV, INSEAD

TBA

 

The Policy of the ECB

 

STEVE CECCHETTI, Brandeis University and NBER

KIM SCHOENHOLTZ, Citigroup

TBA

 

Did the Euro Imply More Correlation of Cycles

 

LUCREZIA REICHLIN, European Central Bank

DOMENICO GIANNONE, Universite Libre de Bruxelles

                        TBA

 

Britain and the Euro: Re-considering the Pros and Cons

 

FRANCESCO CASELLI, London School of Economics and NBER

KEVIN SHEEDY, Cambridge University

                        TBA

 

Sweden and the Euro: Re-considering the Pros and Cons

 

ULF SODERSTROM, Università Bocconi

                        TBA

 

 

 

 

 

5/23/07