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Please note that the conference is by invitation only.
Venue:
Federal Reserve Board, Washington D.C.
01 and 02 December 2006
Organisers:
Lucrezia Reichlin (lucrezia.reichlin@ecb.int)
Matt Canzoneri (canzonem@georgetown.edu)
Dale Henderson (hendersd@frb.gov)
Volker Wieland (wieland@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de)
| 19.30 | Reception at The River Inn (registered attendees only) |
| 09.00 | Welcome Ben Bernanke (Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) |
| 1. DSGE Interpretations of Historical Episodes |
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| 09.15 | Three Great American Disinflations pdf 355 kB, en Michael Bordo (Rutgers University), Christopher Erceg (Federal Reserve Board), Andrew Levin (Federal Reserve Board), Ryan Michaels (University of Michigan) Discussants: Lars Svensson (Princeton University), Marc Weidenmier (Claremont McKenna College) |
| 10.30 | Coffee Break |
| 11.00 | The Mistake of 1937: A General Equilibrium Analysis pdf 368 kB, en Gauti Eggertsson (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), Benjamin Pugsley (University of Chicago) Discussants: Athanasios Orphanides (Federal Reserve Board), Peter Temin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| 12.15 | Lunch |
| 13.15 | Luncheon Speaker Lucas Papademos (Vice-President, European Central Bank) |
| 2. Job Search, Wage Setting, and Microeconomics |
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| 14.00 | Identifying the Role of Labour Markets for Monetary Policy in an Estimated DSGE Model pdf 1.1 MB, en Kai Christoffel (European Central Bank), Keith Kuester (European Central Bank), Tobias Linzert (European Central Bank) Discussants: Wouter Den Haan (London Business School), Monika Merz (University of Bonn) |
| 15.15 | A New Keynesian Model with Unemployment pdf 264 kB, en Olivier Blanchard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jordí Galí (CREI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Discussants: Dale Mortensen (Northwestern University), Kai Christoffel (European Central Bank) |
| 16.30 | Coffee Break |
| 17.00 | Unemployment Fluctuations with Staggered Nash Wage Bargaining pdf 689 kB, en Mark Gertler (New York University), Antonella Trigari (IGIER, Università Bocconi) Discussants: Olivier Blanchard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Carl Walsh (University of California, Santa Cruz) |
| 18.15 | Conference adjourns |
| 19.00 | Reception |
| 19.30 | Dinner Speaker Donald Kohn (Vice-Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) |
| 3. Investment in Housing and the Business Cycle |
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| 08.30 | Mortgage Markets, Collateral Constraints, and Monetary Policy: Do Institutional Factors Matter? pdf 539 kB, en Alessandro Calza (European Central Bank), Tommaso Monacelli (IGIER, Università Bocconi), Livio Stracca (European Central Bank) Discussants: Jonathan Heathcote (Georgetown University), Matteo Iacoviello (Boston College) |
| 09.15 | Coffee Break |
| 4. Expectation Formation, Learning, and Policymaking |
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| 09.45 | Optimal Monetary Policy under Learning and Model Uncertainty Noah Williams (Princeton University), Lars Svensson (Princeton University) Discussants: Eric Schaling (University of Johannesburg), James Bullard (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) |
| 11.00 | Robustly Optimal Monetary Policy with Near-Rational Expectations pdf 339 kB, en Michael Woodford (Columbia University) Discussants: Christopher Sims (Princeton University), George Evans (University of Oregon) |
| 12.15 | Lunch |
| 5. Empirical Analysis of Disaggregated Prices |
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| 13.30 | Menu Costs, Multi-product Firms, and Aggregate Fluctuations pdf 1.2 MB, en Virgiliu Midrigan (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) Discussants: Ricardo Reis (Princeton University), Kirstin Hubrich (European Central Bank) |
| 14.45 | Sticky Prices and Monetary Policy: evidence from Disaggregated U.S. Data pdf 1.1 MB, en Marc Giannoni (Columbia University), Jean Boivin (Columbia University), Ilian Mihov (INSEAD) Discussants: Mark Watson (Princeton University), Giorgio Primiceri (Northwestern University) |
| 16.00 | Conference ends |
