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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Monetary Economics Program Meeting

Ricardo Reis and Mark Watson, Organizers

March 2, 2012

Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Benjamin Strong Room, 10^th Floor
33 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10045

PROGRAM

Thursday, March 1, 2012
6:30 pm	Reception and Dinner Federal Reserve Bank of New York 44 Maiden Lane Entrance (A Level) Liberty Room, 1^st Floor New York, NY 10045
Friday, March 2, 2012
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University and NBER Yuliy Sannikov, Princeton University The I Theory of Money Discussants: Michael Woodford, Columbia University and NBER
10:00 am	Break
10:10 am	Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Pablo Guerron-Quintana and Keith Kuester, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Juan Rubio-Ramirez, Duke University Fiscal Volatility Shocks and Economic Activity Discussants: Ruediger Bachmann, University of Michigan and NBER
11:10 am	Break
11:20 am	Emmanuel Farhi and Gita Gopinath, Harvard University and NBER Oleg Itskhoki, Princeton Univesity and NBER Fiscal Devaluations Discussants: Fabio Ghironi, Boston College and NBER
12:20 pm	Lunch- Liberty Room, 1^st Floor
12:30 pm & 1:00 pm	Federal Reserve Bank of New York Gold Vault Tour
1:40 pm	Eric Swanson and John Williams, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Measuring the Effect of the Zero Lower Bound on Medium-and Longer-Term Rates Discussant: Jonathan Wright, John Hopkins University and NBER
2:40 pm	Break
2:50 pm	Fernando Alvarez, University of Chicago and NBER Francesco Lippi, University of Sassari Price Setting with Menu Cost for Multi-product Firms Discussants: Carlos Carvalho, PUC-Rio
3:50 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Eric Hilt, Wellesley College and NBER Carola Frydman, Boston University and NBER The Panic of 1907: JP Morgan, Trust Companies, and the Impact of the Financial Crisis Discussants: Ellis Tallman, Oberlin College
5:00 pm	Adjourn
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