NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

MONETARY ECONOMICS PROGRAM MEETING

 

Ricardo Reis and Michael Woodford, Organizers

 

November 14, 2008

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13:

 

6:00 pm             Dinner

                        Dante Restaurant

                        (Royal Sonesta Hotel)

                        40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

                        Cambridge, MA

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14:

 

8:30 am             Continental Breakfast

 

9:00 am             MARK BILS, University of Rochester and NBER

                        PETER KLENOW, Stanford University and NBER

                        BENJAMIN MALIN, Federal Reserve Board

                        Reset Price Inflation and the Impact of Monetary Policy Shocks

 

                        Discussant:       JON STEINSSON, Columbia University and NBER

 

10:00 am           Break

 

10:20 am           THOMAS SARGENT, New York University and NBER

                        PAOLO SURICO, Bank of England

                        Monetary Policies and Low-Frequency Manifestations                      

                        of the Quantity Theory

 

                        Discussant:       JAMES STOCK, Harvard University and NBER

 

11:20 am           Break

 

11:40 am           OLIVIER COIBION, College of William & Mary

                        YURIY GORODNICHENKO, UC, Berkeley and NBER

                        What Can Survey Forecasts Tell Us about Informational Rigidities?

 

                        Discussant:       JUSTIN WOLFERS, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

12:40 pm           Lunch- Skyline E

 

1:40 pm             BERNARDO GUIMARAES and KEVIN SHEEDY,

                                                                                                     London School of Economic

                        Sales and Monetary Policy

 

                        Discussant:       ARIEL BURSTEIN, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

 

2:40 pm             Break

 

3:00 pm             GEORGE-MARIOS ANGELETOS, MIT and NBER

                        JENNIFER LA’O, MIT

                        Dispersed Information over the Business Cycle

                        Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy

 

                        Discussant:       ROBERT KING, Boston University and NBER

 

4:00 pm             ALEJANDRO JUSTINIANO, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

                        GIORGIO PRIMICERI, Northwestern University and NBER

                        Potential and Natural Output

 

                        Discussant:       CHRISTOPHER ERCEG, Federal Reserve Board

 

5:00 pm             Adjourn

 

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