NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2003

 

Monetary Economics Workshop

 

Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer, organizers

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

July 14 - 18, 2003

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

                             

MONDAY, JULY 14:

 

12:00 N            Lunch

 

 1:00 PM          LAURENCE BALL, Johns Hopkins University and NBER

                        N. GREGORY MANKIW, Harvard University and NBER

                        RICARDO REIS, Harvard University

            Monetary Policy in Inattentive Economies

 

 2:00 PM          Break

 

 2:15 PM          DANIEL LEVY, Bar-Ilan University     

                        ANDREW T. YOUNG, Emory University

            The Real Thing:  Nominal Price Rigidity of the Nickel Coke, 1886-1959

 

 3:15 PM          Adjourn

 

TUESDAY, JULY 15:

 

12:00 N            Lunch

 

 1:00 PM          STEPHEN R. BOND, Oxford University

                        JASON G. CUMMINS, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Uncertainty and Company Investment: 

An Empirical Investigation Using Data on Analysts’ Profit Forecasts

 

 2:00 PM          Break

 

 2:15 PM          JEFFREY C. FUHRER, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

                        GLENN D. RUDEBUSCH, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

            Estimating the Euler Equation for Output

 

 3:15 PM          Adjourn

WEDNESDAY, JULY 16:

 

12:00 N            Lunch

 

 1:00 PM          BEN S. BERNANKE, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

                        KENNETH N. KUTTNER, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

            What Explains the Stock Market’s Reaction to Federal Reserve Policy?

 

 2:00 PM          Break

 

 2:15 PM          REFET S. GURKAYNAK, BRIAN SACK and ERIC SWANSON,

                        Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

The Excess Sensitivity of Long-Term Interest Rates: 

Evidence and Implications for Macroeconomic Models

 

 3:15 PM          Adjourn

 

 6:00 PM          Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

THURSDAY, JULY 17:

 

12:00 N            Lunch

 

 1:00 PM          Discussion with Ben S. Bernanke, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

 

 2:00 PM          Break

 

 2:15 PM          VALERY A. RAMEY, UC, San Diego and NBER

                        DANIEL J. VINE, UC, San Diego

                        Tracking the Source of the Decline in GDP Volatility: 

                        An Analysis of the Automobile Industry

 

 3:15 PM          Adjourn

 

FRIDAY, JULY 18:

 

12:00 N            Lunch

 

 1:00 PM          MAURICE OBSTFELD and ALAN J. AUERBACH, UC, Berkeley and NBER

The Case for Open-Market Purchases in a Liquidity Trap

 

 2:00 PM          Break

 

 2:15 PM          GAUTI EGGERTSSON, International Monetary Fund

                        MICHAEL WOODFORD, Princeton University and NBER

            The Zero Bound on Interest Rates and Optimal Monetary Policy

 

 3:15 PM          Adjourn